
Quality Analyst
Salt Lake City, UTJob$66–98K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Northrop Grumman Mission Systems seeks a Quality Analyst in Salt Lake City, Utah. The analyst develops quality plans and procedures, reviews quality discrepancies, investigates recurring problems, and recommends corrective actions. The role interfaces with manufacturing, engineering, customers, vendors, and subcontractors, and works with the Vendor Material Disposition Area and Receiving Inspection groups. A bachelor's degree with two years of experience, or an alternative education and experience path, is listed among the basic qualifications.
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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: No
Description
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Quality Analyst to join our team located in Salt Lake City, UT .
What you will get to do :
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Develop and implement program quality plans, programs, and procedures using statistical quality control statistics, lean manufacturing concepts, and six-sigma tools and analyses.
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Ensures that performance and quality products conform to established company and regulatory standards.
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Reviews, analyzes and reports on quality discrepancies related to assembly, process, mechanical, electrical and electro-mechanical systems.
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Investigates problems and develops disposition and corrective actions for recurring discrepancies.
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Interfaces with manufacturing, engineering, customer, vendor and subcontractor representatives to ensure requirements are met.
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Recommends corrective actions, dispositions and modifications.
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Work with the Vendor Material Disposition Area (VMDA) group
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Work alongside Receiving Inspection group and aid in inspection as needed.
The ideal candidate must be able to communicate written and verbally to interface with manufacturing, engineering, customer, vendor and subcontractor representatives to ensure requirements are met, and have the ability to recommend corrective actions, dispositions, and modifications.
Basic Qualifications for the Quality Analyst:
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Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 2 years of work experience; Master’s degree with 0 or more years of relevant work experience: Associates degree with 4 years of experience: OR 6 years of experience of in lieu of degree.
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Experience with corrective‑action processes, quality processes/procedures, and validation/qualification methodologies.
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Experience developing and implement program quality plans, programs, and procedures using statistical quality control statistics, lean manufacturing concepts, and six-sigma tools and analyses.
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Experience reviewing and analyzing reports on quality discrepancies related to assembly, process, mechanical, electrical and electro-mechanical systems.
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Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.
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U.S. citizenship required.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Demonstrated experience in process‑improvement methodologies.
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Auditing experience, including audit planning and corrective‑action verification.
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Facilitation experience for team development and cross‑functional collaboration.
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Belt or Black‑Belt certification.
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Experience with GD&T and Blueprints.
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Experience with First‑Article Inspection criteria.
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Experience with SAP transaction processes.
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Experience with VMDA processes
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Experience with Receiving Inspection process.
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Primary Level Salary Range: $65,500.00 - $98,300.00
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.
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 an Equal Opportunity 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 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.
Job Category: Mission and Quality Assurance
How this job compares
Set against the 5,050 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$66–98K/yr
- Utah median$89–140K/yr38 salary ranges
- US median$88–142K/yr2,286 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $82K, is 28% below the Utah median midpoint ($114K) — in the lowest quarter of Quality Assurance salary ranges in Utah.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 88 open Quality Assurance jobs in Utah and 5,050 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Utah
- Northrop Grumman (this employer)15 open
- ALBANY INTERNATIONAL, CORP.5 open
- L3Harris5 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,868 postings).
- Education
- 1,735 of the 5,050 open Quality Assurance jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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