Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, Lead

The role

You will lead collaboration with cross functional teams to define, develop, and execute processes for high quality hardware assemblies. You will partner with design teams and suppliers to meet quality requirements and manage technical risks throughout the product lifecycle.

What you will do

• Partner with design teams to support design development and provide design for manufacturability feedback.
• Manage technical risks, proof of concepts, prototyping, and scaling designs for production.
• Drive supplier quality development processes through design reviews, testing, and qualification.
• Partner with engineering and sourcing teams to deliver predictable supply to programs.
• Drive supplier quality readiness by analyzing critical characteristics and developing measurement systems.
• Lead supplier qualification activities including PPAP, FAIR, audit, and inspection development.
• Partner with Global Strategic Sourcing to drive supplier performance for cost, quality, and delivery.
• Own the elimination of supplier risk through audits, readiness reviews, and training.
• Support Root Cause and Corrective Action and Material Review Board activities.
• Drive the supplier corrective action and response process.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Materials Science, or similar technical field.
• Experience in manufacturing environments across one or more hardware commodity areas.
• Experience in scaling supplier capabilities from prototype to high-rate production.
• Experience performing First Article Inspection to AS9102 industry standard.
• Experience driving supplier performance and evaluation.
• Working knowledge of AS9100/ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.
• Experience with Statement of Work (SOW), quality clauses, intellectual property (IP), and government regulations such as ITAR.
• Working knowledge of FMEA, APQP, PPAP elements such as MSA, quality improvement techniques, and GD&T.
• Strong ownership mindset with capability to drive projects from start to completion.
• Analytical skills and experience with 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.

Nice to have

• Experience performing source inspection at manufacturing suppliers, particularly in aerospace and defense.
• AS9100 Lead/Internal Auditor Certification or equivalent.
• Master's degree in a technical field.
• Experience creating material and process specifications across multiple hardware commodity areas.
• Working knowledge of the proper application of non-destructive inspection techniques.
• PFMEA experience and developing source inspection plans.
• 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 family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.