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. An organization within Northrop Grumman’s Payload and Ground Systems (PGS) division, Mission Enabling Products is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, and antenna reflectors. Our products are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years. Our facility in Oxnard, CA is seeking a Calibration Technician to support the Deployables Operating Unit. This position may be filled at either a level 2 or a level 3. The Calibration Technician calibrates electronic test measuring equipment and signal generating equipment to conform to set standards. Tests, calibrates, adjusts, and maintains electromechanical, mechanical, optical and opto-mechanical measuring and indicating instruments. Sets up calibration sequences, methods and procedures according to detailed specifications, blueprints, drawings, and requirements. Disassembles, cleans, repairs, and replaces defective parts of test equipment such as pressure gauges and tension meters. May monitor and verify quality in accordance with statistical process or other control procedures. Role and Responsibilities: Effectively solve problems related to measurement equipment. Acquire, analyze, document and report data relating to calibration activities. Communicate with internal customers to convey calibration equipment activities. Create and update procedures as necessary. Identify and execute processes related to calibration for improvement opportunities to drive effectiveness of calibration management. Support calibration related activities such as the processing of various measurement equipment and in accordance with Deployables internal calibration procedures and policies. Track and trend data on equipment that fall under Deployables calibration requirements. Support internal audits, external audits, product, and process verification. Notify responsible personnel/user/work area of upcoming calibration due dates. Ensure calibration is performed on time as required per calibration procedure/policy, so that schedules are always met. Contact calibration and service providers and initiate purchase orders for the service. Plan to deliver calibration equipment received back from service providers to respective owners, function, and work centers after verifying calibration report is acceptable, and pertinent information has been documented into the database. Initiate Non-Conforming Material Report if equipment is found to be out of tolerance during calibration or any time during use. Create calibration and reports on a regular cadence and communicate any reportable observations to your manager. Review change orders related to calibration services request. Support verification/validation activities for new equipment or based on need. Report unsafe conditions observed while equipment is in use. Support projects or activities as required by the company. Perform other duties or special projects as assigned by management. Accountable to meet or exceed the Quality Assurance, and support the Operational, safety, quality, delivery, employee, and cost (SQDEC) expectations of external and internal customers across all AOX programs supported by (either Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering). Perform other duties or special projects as assigned by management.

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