Document Control Analyst

Rocket EMS • Carson City, NV

2d • $50,000 - $60,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Document Control Analyst, within the Quality department, maintains the accuracy, security, traceability, and controlled distribution of manufacturing and quality documentation used to produce high-reliability printed circuit board assemblies. The role supports IPC Class 3 aerospace, defense, and other regulated customers by ensuring employees have access to correct revisions of customer drawings, specifications, bills of material, work instructions, routings, inspection criteria, and quality records.

Working with Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, Program Management, Planning, Purchasing, and Information Technology, the analyst ensures documentation changes are reviewed, approved, implemented, and retained according to customer, regulatory, and company requirements. The role also supports document and revision control, engineering change control, manufacturing documentation, quality and regulatory compliance, records management, audits, and employee training.

The position operates primarily in an office within an electronics manufacturing facility, with regular access to production areas. It requires compliance with safety, quality, security, electrostatic discharge, export-control, and confidentiality requirements. The employee must be authorized to work in the United States and eligible to access export-controlled technical data as required. Additional hours may be required to support customer deadlines, audits, engineering changes, or production needs. The pay range is $50,000–$60,000 USD.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Two or more years of experience in document control, configuration management, quality records, engineering support, or manufacturing administration.
• Experience working in an electronics, aerospace, defense, medical device, automotive, or other regulated manufacturing environment.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify revision discrepancies and documentation errors.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, and electronic file-management systems.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, bills of material, specifications, purchase orders, and manufacturing documentation.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and revision-sensitive tasks.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to handle confidential, proprietary, and export-controlled information.
• Ability to compare drawings, bills of material, and specifications across revisions and recognize conflicts between customer documentation and internal manufacturing instructions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to maintain accurate records under strict deadlines.
• Ability to communicate documentation requirements professionally across departments, work independently, and escalate technical or contractual concerns appropriately.
• Ability to maintain accuracy during repetitive, detail-intensive work and prioritize urgent changes affecting active production.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Must be eligible to access export-controlled technical data as required by the position.
• Must comply with company confidentiality, cybersecurity, and customer data-protection requirements.
• Must be able to work additional hours when required to support customer deadlines, audits, engineering changes, or production needs.

Nice To Haves

• Associate degree in business administration, quality, engineering technology, manufacturing, or a related field.
• Experience in printed circuit board assembly manufacturing.
• Familiarity with IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC/WHMA-A-620, AS9100, and ISO 9001 requirements.
• Experience supporting IPC Class 3 aerospace or defense products.
• Experience with Engineering Change Orders, configuration management, and work-order effectivity.
• Familiarity with ERP, manufacturing execution, product lifecycle management, or quality management systems.
• Experience using customer portals to retrieve drawings, specifications, purchase orders, and revision updates.
• Knowledge of ITAR, EAR, cybersecurity, and technical-data access-control requirements.
• Experience supporting internal, customer, or third-party quality audits.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the controlled document system, including policies, procedures, work instructions, forms, specifications, drawings, inspection criteria, and manufacturing records.
• Receive, review, process, and release new or revised customer and internal documentation; verify revisions before production release and ensure obsolete documents are removed from points of use and archived.
• Maintain revision histories, audit trails, master document lists, distribution records, and control of electronic and printed manufacturing documentation.
• Monitor customer portals and approved channels for drawing, specification, and purchase-order changes; ensure only authorized and approved documents are available to production and inspection personnel.
• Coordinate Engineering Change Orders, Engineering Change Notices, document change requests, and temporary deviations; route changes for review and approval and establish implementation dates and work-order effectivity.
• Confirm approved changes are incorporated into routings, work instructions, inspection plans, bills of material, and manufacturing systems; identify affected open work orders and inventory and maintain implementation records.
• Support disposition and documentation activities for deviations, waivers, and customer-approved changes.
• Review manufacturing documentation packages for completeness and correct customer and technical requirements before work orders are released.
• Support the creation and maintenance of manufacturing travelers, routers, process instructions, and inspection records, including identification of special process requirements.
• Coordinate updates to electronic manufacturing and ERP systems when document revisions change; identify conflicts, missing specifications, incomplete instructions, and unclear customer requirements and escalate discrepancies before production begins.
• Maintain configuration traceability between customer purchase orders, assembly revisions, bills of material, manufacturing routings, and completed products.
• Support compliance with applicable quality standards, customer requirements, aerospace and defense regulations, and document-retention requirements.
• Protect ITAR-, EAR-, confidential, and otherwise controlled technical data; restrict access to authorized personnel.
• Support internal, customer, registrar, and regulatory audits; retrieve requested records and demonstrate document traceability.
• Assist with investigations of document-control-related audit findings, escapes, and nonconformances, and participate in corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensure quality records are legible, identifiable, retrievable, protected, and retained as required.
• Maintain manufacturing and quality records, scan, index, archive, and retrieve completed production documentation, and verify work-order packages are complete.
• Identify incomplete or inaccurate records and coordinate corrections; maintain secure electronic and physical archives and respond to historical-record requests.
• Prepare document packages for source inspection, customer review, first article inspection, and product shipment when required.
• Work with Program Management, Engineering, Planning, Purchasing, Receiving Inspection, Quality Inspectors, and Production Supervisors to clarify requirements and resolve documentation questions.
• Train employees on document-control procedures, revision awareness, record completion, and document security.
• Recommend improvements to document-control processes, workflows, and electronic systems.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED