Quality Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in quality engineering, manufacturing quality, engineering, or aerospace quality systems.
• Demonstrated experience owning quality at the program level, including customer interface and stakeholder management.
• Proven ability to lead root cause investigations and drive corrective actions to closure for complex or program-critical issues.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and quality initiatives in a production and/or engineering environment.
• Strong understanding of quality management system principles, such as AS9100 or equivalent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to interface effectively with customers and senior stakeholders.
• Candidates must be able to comply with federally mandated U.S. export control and ITAR requirements, which require proof that the candidate is a U.S. person.

Nice To Haves

• Deep understanding of satellite systems, program execution, and customer quality requirements.
• Significant experience supporting aerospace or highly regulated manufacturing environments at a senior level.
• Demonstrated ability to act as a senior product line SME or technical quality lead across multiple programs.
• Experience with customer quality audits, program reviews, and external stakeholder interface.
• Experience supporting production hardware, line replaceable units (LRUs), program quality requirements, or system-level quality activities at the program level.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior Quality subject matter expert (SME) for assigned product group or program area across IRAD and production efforts.
• Own quality performance and product compliance at the program level for assigned hardware.
• Interface directly with, program leadership, and external stakeholders on quality matters, requirements, and issue resolution.
• Lead quality strategy development and execution for assigned programs or product lines.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and Program teams to ensure alignment on quality expectations, product requirements, and issue resolution.
• Ensure compliance with AS9100 requirements, internal procedures, customer requirements, and contractual obligations.
• Support and mentor Quality Engineering team members; provide guidance on complex quality issues and escalations.
• Own and oversee Nonconformance Report (NC) management for assigned programs or product groups.
• Lead disposition decisions for complex or high-impact nonconformances; coordinate customer notifications and approvals as required.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and customers to write dispositions and update NC records with investigation results.
• Own NC documentation and maintain status awareness through closure; ensure timely resolution of program-critical issues.
• Communicate NC status, quality metrics, and quality concerns to program leadership, customers, and stakeholders.
• Monitor NC activity across programs to identify trends, systemic issues, and improvement opportunities.
• Lead root cause investigations for complex or program-critical issues; drive effective corrective actions to resolution.
• Own corrective and preventive action (CAPA) strategy for assigned programs; manage CAPAs to address NCs, audit findings, escapes, process failures, or recurring trends.
• Interface with customers on corrective action requirements, status, and closure evidence.
• Verify corrective action implementation and lead effectiveness review activities.
• Drive systemic improvements based on CAPA trends across assigned programs or product lines.
• Lead production quality support for assigned programs or product groups.
• Review and approve travelers, build records, and quality documentation; provide quality signoffs as required.
• Lead resolution of complex quality issues that arise during production, assembly, integration, testing, or inspection activities.
• Provide Engineering Sign Off (ESO) approval support for assigned product groups.
• Own quality risk identification, assessment, and escalation for assigned programs; ensure timely issue resolution and product compliance.
• Analyze quality data and trends across programs to identify risk areas and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead improvement initiatives and communicate recommendations to program leadership and stakeholders.
• Develop training materials and lead training sessions to drive quality improvement and process understanding.
• Champion lessons learned and continuous improvement across programs and the Quality Engineering organization.
• Maintain deep technical understanding of assigned product groups and program areas.
• Perform additional duties as assigned by management.

Benefits

• discretionary annual bonus plan
• paid time off (PTO)
• comprehensive health benefit package