Quality Engineer - Space Flight Hardware

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor contractor controls and perform quality assurance activities during fabrication, integration, and testing of space flight hardware.
• Evaluate contractor performance and conduct physical verification of the quality status of supplies and services.
• Serve as a voting and approval authority for Material Review Board (MRB) and Anomaly Review Board (ARB) actions, ensuring all decisions receive stakeholder concurrence.
• Ensure that flight hardware and software anomalies, corrective actions, and re-verification processes are properly documented according to the supplier’s failure and deficiency reporting systems.
• Identify and communicate potential risks by advising stakeholders of any operations, controls, or nonconformances that may jeopardize quality or the safeguarding of supplies and services.
• Satisfy mandatory flight hardware inspection requirements, ensuring compliance with all established standards.
• Collaborate with on-site personnel to stay informed of plant-wide activities that may impact program performance.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in manufacturing, assembly, and/or quality assurance of space flight hardware.
• Extensive knowledge of supplier quality management operations, requirements flow-down, compliance standards, and performance data analysis techniques.
• NASA certifications (or previous certification) in the following standards:
• NASA-STD-8739.1 (Staking and Conformal Coating)
• NASA-STD-8739.2 (Surface Mount Soldering) or IPC J-STD-001-ES
• NASA-STD-8739.3 (Soldering) or IPC J-STD-001-ES
• NASA-STD-8739.4 (Crimping, Cables & Wiring)
• ANSI/ESD 20.20 (Electrostatic Discharge)
• NASA-STD-8719.9 (Critical Hardware Handling)
• Must be a U.S. Citizen due to the sensitive nature of the work.
• Ability to pass a background check.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience working with Government agencie
• Strong understanding of supplier quality assurance processes and supplier performance management.
• Demonstrated success in collaborating with cross-functional teams and ensuring compliance with aerospace industry standards.
• Experience conducting audits and quality assessments in a highly regulated environment.