2027 Associate Qualilty Engineer / Quality Engineer

About the Role

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking an Associate Quality Engineer or Quality Engineer to join the Safety & Mission Assurance team in Utah (Promontory, Clearfield, Salt Lake City, or Magna). This role supports the Nozzle Value Stream, focusing on developing, establishing, and maintaining Mission Assurance policies, procedures, processes, and controls to ensure product performance and quality conform to company, international (AS9100), and governmental requirements, and to achieve customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand product design intent, failure modes, requirements, and specifications, as well as manufacturing processes, process controls, statistics, SPC, and quality inspections.
• Provide expertise and guidance in interpreting governmental regulations, agency guidelines, and internal policies/procedures.
• Assure compliance and serve as a liaison between Promontory S&MA and various organizations, including some government agencies.
• Work directly with operating entities to ensure ongoing inspections, statistical process control analyses, and audits are conducted to enforce requirements, meet specifications, and improve processing.
• Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation and control systems and protocols.
• Collaborate with design engineering, process engineering, and operations to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devise and implement methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Design and analyze inspection and testing processes, mechanisms, and equipment.
• Conduct quality assurance tests and perform statistical analysis to assess cost and determine responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Audit quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
• Ensure corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• May specialize in design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control, and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
• May be certified in lean and six-sigma quality engineering methodologies.
• Work with test data and ensure proper quality standards are in place to process hardware.
• Collaborate with the Engineering team for engineering development.
• Develop corrective action plans for software and hardware processing.
• Investigate internal failures to identify root cause on flight hardware.
• Work with technicians to develop root cause findings on flight hardware.
• Implement Kaizen strategies to reduce defect count on the manufacturing floor.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Clearance Required for Start: No
• Clearance Type: None
• Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
• Relocation Assistance: May be available

Qualifications

For an Associate Engineer

• Completing or has completed a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Majoring in or has majored in Mechanical, Chemical, or Aerospace Engineering (other technical degrees may be considered).
• Able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite).
• Proven technical aptitude and ability to problem-solve complex technical issues.
• Proven ability to multi-task.
• Excellent Communication Skills (both written and verbal).

For an Engineer

• Completing or has completed a Master’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Majoring in or has majored in Chemical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering (other technical degrees may be considered).
• Able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite).
• Proven technical aptitude and ability to problem-solve complex technical issues.
• Proven ability to multi-task.
• Excellent Communication Skills (both written and verbal).

Preferred Qualifications (Both Levels)

• Overall cumulative GPA of 3.00/4.0 or higher.
• Experience working with energetic materials and processes.
• Experience writing shop planning.
• Interpreting blueprints and specifications.
• Experience in Lean Manufacturing Techniques.
• Process Controls (SPC).

Salary Range

• Associate Engineer: $59,900 - $89,900
• Engineer: $72,100 - $108,100