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Engineer Quality
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Illinois-Rolling Meadows
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a talented Engineer Quality to join our team in Rolling Meadows, IL. The qualified candidate will become part of Northrop Grumman’s Multidomain Sensing, Targeting and Survivability Division’s Mission Survivability Systems or Electronic Warfare Targeting Business Unit. What you will get to do: • Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation, control systems, and protocols for processing materials into semi-finished or finished products. • Partner with engineering and manufacturing to establish and uphold quality standards. • Design, analyze, and implement inspection and testing processes and equipment; conduct quality assurance tests, perform statistical analyses to determine cost and responsibility for non-conforming parts. • Audit quality systems, identify deficiencies, and drive corrective actions that meet reliability standards and documentation requirements. • Review contracts/SOWs/drawings to evaluate, interpret, and apply company policies, ISO 9000, AS9102, MIL, IPC, and other standards applicable to designs and processes. • Identify and remove barriers to quality improvement through root‑cause analysis and corrective‑action planning. • Interface with production‑floor roles (inspection, assembly, operations) and communicate clearly with all stakeholders. • Define, classify, and control quality characteristics for products, processes, and services; develop and validate control plans and work‑instruction updates. • Manage nonconformances across the facility, lead cross‑functional containments, to ensure product compliance. • Use and interpret quality‑control tools (flowcharts, Pareto, control charts) and apply benchmarking to drive system‑wide improvements. • Interpret technical drawings and specifications to verify compliance with design requirements • Facilitate team collaboration using brainstorming, conflict‑resolution, and other facilitation techniques. • May specialize in design, engineering, incoming material, production control, product evaluation, reliability, inventory control, or R&D as they apply to product or process quality. The ideal candidate must be able to communicate written and verbally in a team environment. Basic Qualifications for the Engineer Quality: • Bachelor’s Degree in a related STEM field with minimum of 2 years of experience in Quality, root cause investigation, and/or technical functions in Manufacturing; Master’s Degree in a related STEM field with of 0 years of experience. • Root Cause Corrective Actions experience. • Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance. • U.S. citizenship required Preferred Qualifications: • Experience with ISO 9001 or AS9100 Quality Management Systems • Experience with advanced application of Data Analytics and Statistical Analysis methods