Project Quality Engineer

Preferred Qualifications

• 8-12 years’ experience.
• Experience supporting the design, manufacture, assembly, testing, or verification of spaceflight hardware.
• DCMA interaction.
• Experience applying advanced statistical methods, process capability analysis, regression analysis, and statistical process control techniques.
• Configuration management experience.
• Experience supporting precision electromechanical assemblies, mechanisms, actuators, bearings, motors, sensors, or other high-reliability flight hardware is strongly preferred.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) or other relevant quality certification.
• Experience supporting spaceflight, military, or other mission-critical hardware programs.
• Experience with customer source inspection and government oversight activities.
• Familiarity with IPC J-STD-001, NASA workmanship standards, or related aerospace workmanship requirements.
• Familiarity with aerospace special process controls, including soldering, welding, cleaning, coating, heat treat, plating, bonding, and related Nadcap-controlled processes.
• Experience supporting environmental tests, qualification test, and failure analysis activities.

Project Quality Engineering Accountabilities include

Program Quality & Mission Assurance

• Serve as the primary Quality Engineering representative for assigned programs and Integrated Product Teams (IPTs).
• Interpret customer, contractual, regulatory, and internal quality requirements and ensure appropriate implementation and flow-down throughout the product lifecycle.
• Develop and execute program quality and mission assurance plans, including surveillance, compliance verification, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Participate in proposal, contract, requirements, design, qualification, milestone, gate, and engineering change reviews to ensure quality requirements and risks are appropriately addressed.
• Assess and communicate quality risks affecting product integrity, reliability, safety, mission success, or contractual compliance.
• Monitor program quality performance and communicate significant risks, trends, and issues to program leadership and customers, as appropriate.

Product & Manufacturing Quality

• Provide Quality Engineering support throughout manufacturing, assembly, test, and delivery to ensure compliance with engineering, contractual, workmanship, and quality requirements.
• Review manufacturing and test planning, work instructions, travelers, quality records, and End Item Data Packages for compliance and completeness.
• Participate in Material Review Board (MRB) activities, independently assessing nonconformances, product risk, and disposition recommendations.
• Support First Article Inspection (AS9102), product traceability, configuration control, configuration audits, and verification activities.
• Support supplier quality activities, including supplier corrective actions, source inspections, audits, and supplier nonconformances

Root Cause, Analysis & Continuous Improvement

• Lead or support root cause and corrective action (RCCA) investigations and development of effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Analyze manufacturing, test, statistical, and quality performance data using appropriate methods, including SPC and process capability analysis.
• Identify adverse trends, emerging risks, and improvement opportunities and support Lean and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develop and present quality performance metrics and analysis to management, customers, and program teams.

Customer, Regulatory & Compliance

• Interface with customers, DCMA, suppliers, and other stakeholders regarding quality requirements, product acceptance, and compliance matters.
• Support customer source inspections, AS9100 audits, customer audits, and other regulatory or contractual compliance activities.
• Support design verification, validation, qualification, and product acceptance activities as required.

Quality Leadership & Independent Authority

• Serve as an independent quality authority throughout design, manufacturing, assembly, test, and delivery, with particular emphasis on mission-critical and spaceflight hardware.
• Exercise sound engineering judgment in evaluating technical, quality, configuration, workmanship, contractual, and mission assurance concerns.
• Independently identify, communicate, and escalate conditions that may compromise product integrity, reliability, safety, mission success, or contractual compliance.
• Demonstrate the professional judgment and willingness to challenge, stop, or escalate activities when quality or compliance requirements may be compromised.

How We Care for You

• Financial Rewards: great compensation package, bonus opportunities, matching 401k, and the ability to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan (select locations), Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible paid time off, holidays and parental leave program, relocation assistance.
• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Professional Skills Development: Tuition Assistance, mentorship and coaching opportunities, leadership development and other personal growth programs
• Culture: Warm, respectful, family-like environment driven by our 12 core values. Multiple Employee Resource Groups led by our employees, open and welcoming to all.

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Salary Range Transparency

Chatsworth, CA $95,000.00–$135,000.00 Annually