Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

The role

You will define, develop, and execute processes to deliver high quality hardware assemblies and sub-assemblies. You will collaborate with design teams and suppliers to meet quality requirements across 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 characteristics and leading qualification activities.
• 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.
• Audit the Quality Management System at suppliers and lead onsite audits for contract deliverables.

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.
• Working knowledge of AS9100/ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.
• Experience performing First Article Inspection to AS9102 industry standard.
• Experience 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 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.
• Experience flowing down source control requirements to suppliers.
• 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/NetNetSuite, 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 Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct 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.