Sr. Principal Mission Assurance Engineer

Northrop Grumman•Gilbert, AZ

2d•$122,800 - $184,200•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Senior Principal Mission Assurance Engineer – Level 4 to join our team in Gilbert, AZ. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. In this role you will implement and enforce mission assurance plans for individual spacecraft flight hardware programs addressing design, manufacturing, integration, and test activities in accordance with company and contractual requirements. You will work as a member of an integrated product team inside of the NG Safety & Mission Assurance organization. Within this organization, you will work with various disciplines to address technical issues, meet program requirements, and ensure mission success. You will interface with customers, vendors, and with NG Manufacturing, Integration & Test, and Engineering organizations to identify and resolve mission/flight assurance issues. This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of professional experience.
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top-Secret security clearance
U.S. Citizenship
Direct program experience working with the following disciplines: Program Management Office, Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Systems Engineering, Integration, Test & Launch, and Parts Materials & Process.
Experience working with and managing subcontractors and working directly with customers.
Experience with Risk and Opportunity Management.
Proficient at proposal and Basis of Estimate development.

Nice To Haves

Active Top Secret clearance
Experience on Space systems programs, such as payload, OR spacecraft bus, OR antenna, launch, OR ground systems, and/or operations and maintenance activities.
Experience with the internal and external implementation of AS9100D
Knowledge of EEE-INST-002, NASA-STD-6016 or other standards used for Part, Material or Process selection
Experience with requirements management and the associated tools, i.e. DOORs supporting Validation and Verification
Systems engineering experience on complex integrated systems.
Experience on Government contracts.
Extensive knowledge base in Cause Analysis tools, such as Ishikawa, FMEA, DOE, KTA (Kepner Tregoe Analysis)
Experience interfacing with DCMA and Aerospace representatives
Control Account Management experience with Earned Value Management practices.
Familiarity with industry workmanship standards; NASA, MIL, NAS, IPC.

Responsibilities

Implements and administers an effective Safety and Mission Assurance program in compliance with applicable customer contracts and other guidelines set forth by Flight Systems Group requirements throughout the contract life cycle. An understanding of basic requirement traceability principles will be paramount for this duty.
Ensures contractual program requirements are flowed down internally and to suppliers, ensures compliance with customer contract, industry, and organizational requirements. Performs verification and validation requirements have been met.
Maintains close engagement with: the Supplier Quality organization to drive improvements from key suppliers; the Software Assurance organization to drive improvements during the Software Development Life Cycle; the Design Assurance organization to drive improvements during the selection and implementation of Parts, Materials and Processes; the Configuration Management organization to ensure the implementation of document and data control requirements; the Product Assurance organization to ensure the implementation of workmanship requirements, quality oversight and effective work center corrective action when issues arise; the EHS (Environmental Health and Safety) organization to ensure a safe workplace for personnel and operations.
Reviews practices, procedures, and processes, seeking avenues to improve efficiency and effectiveness, reducing risk to product quality.
Interprets technical and mission assurance requirements, ensuring integration to program plans, specifications and product drawings as well as verification of implementation.
Provide oversight in discrepancy identification, failure investigations, and cause / corrective action implementation. Leads failure and problem-solving analyses.
Represents Mission Assurance at various review boards including Configuration Control Board (CCB), Engineering Change Board (ECR), Risk and Opportunity Management Board (ROMB), Corrective Action Board (CAB), Readiness Reviews, & Failure/Material Review Board (FRB/MRB).
Supports tracking and reporting metrics, mission specific risk issues & develop, and present internal & external Mission Assurance briefings.
Understand the definition of risk and be able to quantify it. Also ensure Risk Management activities are executed and maintained according to standards and procedures.
Communicates the impacts and execution of program efforts, division quality, and contract requirements to all levels of the organization. May communicate to Government and customer representatives.
Provides S&MA inputs and baseline estimations for future program proposal efforts. Engages in new business efforts representing the department and defining appropriate tailoring required to our nominal processes.
Manages and tracks the new business efforts for the S&MA department; monitoring the due dates, scope of contract, and delegated activities. Maintains a tracker and repository for the proposals and assists in the risk assessment on a contract by contract basis.
Control Account Manager (CAM) for the S&MA budget on program contracts using Earned Value Management System principles.
Specialize in the areas of spacecraft design, incoming material management, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
Other duties as assigned