Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, PCB/PCBA

The role

You will define, develop, and execute processes to deliver high quality and reliable precision machined parts for missile and high-speed aircraft programs. You will collaborate with design teams and suppliers to meet quality requirements and manage supplier performance.

What you will do

• Partner with design teams to support design development and provide design for manufacturability feedback.
• Support internal design process and ideation using knowledge of machining, molding, additive manufacturing, fabrication, special processes, and inspection.
• Drive supplier quality development processes through design reviews, testing, and qualification.
• Review supplier processes and capabilities to ensure alignment to requirements.
• Partner with various engineering and management teams to deliver predictable supply.
• Drive supplier quality readiness by analyzing characteristics and developing measurement systems.
• Partner with Global Strategic Sourcing and Product Sourcing Engineering to drive supplier performance.
• Own the elimination of supplier risk through audits, readiness reviews, and training.
• Support Root Cause and Corrective Action and Material Review Board activities.
• Audit the Quality Management System at suppliers and lead onsite audits.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Metallurgy or similar technical field.
• Experience with producing precision mechanical parts for aerospace or defense.
• Experience in scaling supplier capabilities from prototype to high rate production.
• Working knowledge of AS9100/ ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.
• Experience performing First Article Inspection to AS9102 Industry Standard.
• Experience with driving supplier performance and evaluation.
• Experience with Statement of Work (SOW), quality clauses, intellectual property (IP), and government regulations such as ITAR.
• Working knowledge of FMEA, APQP, PPAP elements (including MSA), and GD&T.
• Strong ownership mindset with capability to drive projects from start to completion.
• Analytical skills for data mining, metrics generation, and statistical analysis tools (MatLab, JMP, MiniTab, etc).
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance.
• Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time to suppliers, sourcing partners, and manufacturing locations.

Nice to have

• Experience performing source inspection at mechanical manufacturing suppliers, aerospace and defense suppliers
• AS9100 Lead / Internal Auditor Certification or equivalent
• Master’s degree in a technical field
• Experience in creating material and process specifications
• Experience with managing special processes including heat treatment, polishing, anodize, coating and paint
• PFMEA experience and developing source inspection plans and qualifying inspection process capabilities
• Experience with government contracts and MIL standard requirements
• Experience with Teamcenter, NX, Oracle/Netsuite, Jira, and Foundry

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance
• Consent to pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their systems are powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.