About This Role
This Quality Manager role involves leading a team of inspection personnel across multiple sites, focusing on achieving delivery objectives and ensuring quality compliance. The position requires a leader who can drive continuous improvement, manage personnel and priorities, and interface with engineering and program teams during early production phases.
Responsibilities
- Drive the team to achieve monthly delivery objectives per end of month and contractual requirements
- Lead continuous improvement or lean projects in own area or across areas
- Give effective direction related to Assessment and closure, IBASE, and inventory issues
- Execute major programs in early phases of production, interfacing with engineering and program
- Support ISO, LEAN, and Quality initiatives
- Document and standardize tasks and efforts
- Work to company policy, business conduct, and standards
- 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
- Perform statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications
- Audit quality systems for deficiency identification and correction
- Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements
- Communicate clearly, deliver effective presentations, and analyze data to support decision-making
- Lead cross-functional, high-performing teams and mentor direct reports
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 5 years of manufacturing and/or quality experience; OR a Master’s Degree with 3 years of manufacturing and/or quality experience; OR an Associate’s Degree with 7 years of manufacturing and/or quality experience; OR 9 years of manufacturing and/or quality experience may be accepted in lieu of degree
- Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret Clearance
- US citizenship required
Nice to have:
- BS in business, engineering, or other STEM area
- 9 years or more of experience in a DOD manufacturing environment
Important Details
- Travel: 25% of the Time
- Team: Supports a team of inspection personnel based out of Troy Hill and Halethorpe, supporting Elkridge and Halethorpe sites
About the Company
Northrop Grumman provides mission-enabling solutions for global security, with a portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies. They deliver battle management and cyber solutions to protect the U.S. and its global allies.
