About This Role
This Quality Assurance Lead role at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems involves supporting inspection processes at both the Elkridge and Halethorpe sites. The position focuses on ensuring the quality of materials, sub-assemblies, and systems, and requires interfacing with various internal teams and external customers.
Responsibilities
- Perform receiving inspections
- Support 1499 storeroom and finished good inspections
- Perform Final Kit inspection of vendor material in accordance with packing list and conforming criteria per QAD (Quality Assurance Directive)
- Evaluate in-process and completed sub-assemblies and systems and identify defects in accordance with governing documentation
- Perform inspections using tooling and check-off lists for the complete inspection of sub-assemblies and systems
- Interface with manufacturing operations and engineering personnel to improve processes and documentation issues
- Review metrics, procedures, and techniques used to inspect materials, parts, units, and/or systems that improperly passed inspection, in order to make necessary corrections to prevent recurrence
- Support ISO Audits as required by audit coordinator
- Submit contract end item product as required
- Inspect shipment and shipping paperwork such as government/customer shipping documents, packaging and preservation information using applicable specifications
- Interface with contracts personnel for shipping process
- Interface with customer and government (DCMA) for required in-process inspections through final inspection as well as contract end item submittals and final pack and shipping process
- Perform as a Quality Process Control Aide in an AS-9100 process-oriented organization
Requirements
- High School diploma or equivalent and 6 years of experience working within the Defense Industry, Quality, Inspection, Shipping and/or Manufacturing
- Experience using SAP
- Experience in electromechanical assembly
- Experience with shipping/packaging requirements
- Experience using CADSTAR to review engineering drawings
- Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret security clearance
- U.S. citizenship required
Nice to have:
- Active DoD Secret Security Clearance
- AS 9100 Experience
- Experience interfacing with DoD customers
- Experience in a quality inspection capacity
Important Details
- Travel: Yes, 25% of the Time
About the Company
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security, with a wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies. The company's battle management and cyber solutions deliver timely, mission-enabling information and provide superior situational awareness and understanding to protect the U.S. and its global allies.