Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, Casting and Welding

The role

You will define, develop, and execute processes to deliver high quality and reliable castings for Rocket, Missile, and Connected Warfare programs. You will collaborate with design teams and suppliers to meet quality requirements and manage technical risks.

What you will do

• Partner with design teams to support design development and provide design for manufacturability feedback.
• Use expertise in casting and welding to support internal design process and ideation.
• Drive supplier quality development processes through design reviews, testing, and qualification.
• Partner with engineering and sourcing teams to deliver predictable supply.
• Drive supplier quality readiness through measurement systems and qualification activities.
• Partner with Global Strategic Sourcing to drive supplier performance.
• Own the elimination of supplier risk to improve quality and reliability.
• Support Root Cause and Corrective Action and Material Review Board activities.
• Review supplier effectiveness and drive supplier corrective action and response process.
• 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 castings and mechanical assemblies for maritime, aerospace, or space applications from sand, investment or die castings.
• Experience in scaling supplier capabilities from prototype to high rate production.
• Experience performing First Article Inspection to AS9102 Industry Standard.
• Experience with driving supplier performance and evaluation.
• Working knowledge of AS9100/ ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.
• Working knowledge of FMEA, APQP, PPAP elements, MSA, and GD&T.
• Strong ownership mindset to drive projects from start to completion.
• Analytical skills for data mining, metrics generation, and statistical analysis tools.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Experience performing source inspection at mechanical, 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 for castings and mechanical parts
• Working knowledge of non-destructive inspection techniques
• Experience qualifying metal joining methods including welding and brazing
• Experience with managing special processes including heat treatment, polishing, anodize, coating and paint
• Experience in casting process qualification and development of automated inspection operations
• PFMEA experience and developing source inspection plans
• Experience with government contracts and MIL standard requirements

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

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 family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.