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Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Flight Test Quality Manager 1 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position is fulltime on-site located in Palmdale, CA.

As a leader, you always act with integrity, and the highest ethical standards characterize everything you do. You enable your team to achieve predictable and balanced results, while satisfying the needs of internal and external partners. You treat all people with respect, and you model personal growth and continuous development. You know how to build an inclusive environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. You develop trusted and valued customer relationships and communicate effectively, so that people throughout the organization feel engaged and connected to their work. You deliver excellence, strive for continuous improvement and respond vigorously to change.

Responsible for leading and managing the Mission Assurance team within the Flight Test environment for new production systems or modifications and acceptance testing of existing systems. This position requires a senior leader whom acts with strong leadership presence and decision-making skills with the ability to lead in an environment of continuous change.

• Candidates must demonstrate a proven track record of solving complex problems through systematic and objective evaluation of information resulting in effective communication, championing, and implementation of change with a diverse set of internal and external customers and suppliers.
• Support Test Readiness Reviews, Flight Readiness Reviews, and Executive Review Boards prior to critical ground test and flight test activities.
• Drives and implements industry practices and strategies to improve quality, cost, schedule and technical performance. The candidate will be expected to drive quality processes throughout the System Integration and Test (SIT&E) organization along with leveraging their experience/background to bring alternative ideas/solutions to drive continuous improvement of key elements within Mission Assurance disciplines and support changes within SIT&E.
• Ability to manage complex budgets ensuring staffing requirement are met within flexible schedules. Interpret, execute, and recommend modifications to organizational policies while ensuring compliance.
• Promotes the professional development of the Mission Assurance workforce and fosters a collaborative culture that sustains the momentum around employee engagement and inclusion, affordability, innovation, value growth and continuous improvement.
• Build strong customer relations through proven commitment of shared goals to deliver the highest quality products to the warfighter; Open communication and ensure adequate oversight to ensure MGI's are implemented.
• Support Safe for Flight release process that includes reviewing all open work on the system and concurring open items can be deferred for flight (Delayed Action/OK for Flight)

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience in the Aircraft, Aerospace or Manufacturing Industries in a Quality Environment.
• 2 or more years of Leadership/ Supervisory or Lead experience.
• Must have ability to work flexible schedule 1st or 2nd shift to include weekend shifts.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain Special Program Access.
• Proficient in root cause and corrective action.
• Strong understanding of DCMAI 8210.1 Requirements to include FOE compliance and audits
• Ground flight operations experience. To include Safe for Flight Release of Systems
• Familiarity of the Quality Management System (AS9100D)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Leadership Experience in a Flight Test Environment
• Technical Understanding of instrumentation systems and architectures
• Strong orientation to change in a dynamic environment
• Strong level of understanding of complex quality policies, procedures, government regulations and work flow.
• Ability to analyze alternative courses of action where decisions have risk/reward implications for program or area of influence.

Salary Range: $104,600 - $156,800

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO . U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.