Northrop Grumman is looking for a Director Mission Assurance 1 to lead the Quality and Mission Assurance organization for the Aeronautics sector. This leadership role is located in Clearfield, UT or Iuka, MS and requires strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills to lead in a dynamic environment. There is significant responsibility and visibility with executive leadership and the broad customer organization.  

Our Leaders at Northrop Grumman live our values daily and encourage our teams to do the same. We do the right thing: upholding the highest ethical standards and facilitating a safe and respectful environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. We do what we promise: holding yourself and others accountable to meet predictable and balanced results. We commit to shared success: operating as OneNG and removing barriers for our teams. Finally, We pioneer: setting a vision that shapes the future and inspires others.

What You'll Get To Do:

• Ensures the on-time delivery of high-quality products and services that meet all contractual requirements and business objectives. 

• Develops, maintains, and ensures compliance with mission assurance programs, policies, processes, procedures and that the performance and quality of products/processes conform to established standards, specifications and agency guidelines. 

• Defines and monitors mission assurance program specifications and processes to ensure mission success of programs.

• Performs or assures quality, risk management, safety, reliability and maintainability of program achievements, subcontractors, and suppliers in accordance with contractual requirements.

• Assesses program performance and risks and determines resources to ensure mission assurance. 

• Drives the continuous improvement of people (to include training & development), products, processes, systems and services through the application of world class manufacturing to include innovative technologies, lean principles, six-sigma projects, and common best practices. 

• Provides expertise and guidance in interpreting policies, regulatory and/or governmental regulations, and agency guidelines to assure compliance. 

• Provides leadership that fosters an inclusive, motivated and engaged work culture. 

• Works directly with operating entities such as engineering and manufacturing to ensure that inspections, process control analyses and audits are conducted on a continuing basis to enforce requirements and compliance. 

• Ensures the Quality/Mission Assurance, Manufacturing, and Engineering processes are consistent with industry capability maturity models and QMS standards (AS9100). 

• Provides direct oversight in all efforts related to factory accountability and foreign object elimination practices. 

• Reviews trend metrics and analyze misses in order to implement the appropriate improvements to improve performance. 

• Standardizes and facilitate root cause / corrective action efforts to resolve quality issues. 

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of related experience or a Masters with 8 years of related experience

• Demonstrated experience developing, communicating and instituting new processes for an organization 

• A minimum of 3 years experience managing people

• 5 years of experience in Mission Assurance or Build IPT roles  

• Experience in metric development for process health and performance monitoring large programs/projects 

• Active US Government Secret Clearance adjudicated in the last 6 years with ability to obtain SAP and Top-Secret Clearance  

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Experience with composite design and build/fabrication

• Current or previous lead of a multi-discipline team

• Experience leading other managers or leaders beyond individual contributor

• NG QMS familiarity 

• ISO 9001 and AS9100 familiarity 

• MS or MBA degree

• Active Top Secret Clearance  

Clearfield, UT Salary Scale; $176,100.00- 264,100

Iuka, MS Salary Scale; 166,800.00- $250,200