Director, Quality Engineering

Impulse Space • Redondo Beach, CA

102d • $185,000 - $225,000

About The Position

As the Head of Quality Engineering at Impulse, you will be responsible for establishing our quality standards for all flight hardware. Working with propulsion, vehicle, avionics teams (and more) to ensure timely, and high quality built parts. Develop, maintain and continuously improve Impulse's quality system.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
• 8+ years in a fast paced manufacturing, quality, build reliability and/or design engineering role
• Demonstrated experience building or optimizing a quality management system
• A hands on approach to setting up quality systems and solving quality problems

Nice To Haves

• 10+ years in a quality engineering leadership role working on launch vehicles, spacecraft or satellites
• Demonstrated experience working with, or implementing AS9100 standards
• Demonstrated technical writing skills
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with engineering, production teams and all involved teams

Responsibilities

• Establish quality methodology for tracking quality issues throughout the manufacturing process
• Build, develop & maintain systems to address quality problems that improve reliability and speed production
• Lead cross functional teams to deliver quality improvement projects
• Assist the production and supply chain teams with hardware non-conformance tracking and ensuring all non-conformances are resolved quickly
• Develop manufacturing quality standards and inspection procedures
• Identify, source and set up quality inspection equipment and train operators on best practices and processes
• Build out Impulse Quality Plan and documentation that build towards certification against AS9100

Benefits

• Access to medical, vision & dental coverage
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• Eligibility for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees