Manager Test Inspection 3

Northrop Grumman • Elkton, MD

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman is currently seeking a Manager Test Inspection 3 to support the Quality & Mission Assurance function at their Elkton, Maryland site. The Northrop Grumman Propulsion Systems and Controls (PS&C) facility in Elkton, Maryland began solid-propellant rocket operations in 1948. Today, the Elkton PS&C facility designs, develops, and produces solid-propellant propulsion and ordnance systems in programs professionally managed for a wide variety of Government and commercial customers. The facility also serves as the hub for offsite engineering and test facilities in Ronkonkoma, NY and Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Elkton, Maryland is located on the Upper Chesapeake Bay, midway between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Discover charming small towns, parks with miles of trails, specialty and antique shops, award winning restaurants, and inns. You can hike, bike, camp, bird watch, ride horseback, or drop a fishing line. Five rivers, Chesapeake Bay and the C&D Canal can be explored by boat or by land. Experience panoramic views from Turkey Point Lighthouse on a bluff overlooking the Bay, or from the banks of the C&D Canal where ships from around the globe cruise.

Requirements

• Eight years of managerial and quality experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to effectively lead a diverse group of workers across multiple shifts while exemplifying Northrop Grumman Leadership Behaviors and Northrop Grumman values.
• Knowledge and application of GD&T, AS9102, AS9100 and RCCA
• Skill in assessing and prioritizing multiple tasks, projects and demands.
• Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt
• Strong communication, coordination, and organizational abilities.
• Ability to acquire a security clearance which requires U.S.A. citizenship

Nice To Haves

• SAP, Solumina, and/or TipQA experience
• Supplier Quality Experience
• Experience with multi-shift operations
• Experience with statistical process control (SPC)
• Active Secret Clearance
• Quality related certifications (CQI, CMQ/OE, Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt)

Responsibilities

• Fosters a culture of quality and safety performance
• Provide daily operations guidance to a team of managers and individual contributors supporting receiving inspection, in process inspection, and calibration
• Ensure the inspection tools, equipment, and process control documents adhere to quality requirements.
• Works with cross functional management to prioritize manufacturing and product testing.
• Able to identify and resolve quality related issues expeditiously and proficiently.
• Develop and execute strategic and tactical objectives
• Drive culture change toward more proactive risk mitigation, data driven decision making, and continuous improvement.
• Support Return to Green, Failure Analysis, and Corrective Action activities with focus on full resolution and future risk mitigation.
• Success in this role will require sound judgment, innovative thinking and excellent interpersonal/management skills to plan, motivate and accomplish goals through your staff.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance may be available
• health insurance coverage
• life and disability insurance
• savings plan
• Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
• overtime
• shift differential
• discretionary bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed