Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, PCBA, Intelligence Systems

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

We are looking for a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer - Intelligence Systems to join the Quality Engineering Team. This role will partner across the product development organization, production organization, and field operations organizations.

As a Supply Quality Engineer, you will work inside & outside the organization to define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high quality & reliable avionics modules and components like PCBA/Circuit Cards, sensors, communication modules, and line replaceable units (LRUs).

Responsibilities:

• Partner with design teams to support the design development process, provide design for manufacturability feedback, and help generate product data for precision mechanical parts.
• Use knowledge and expertise of machining, molding, additive manufacturing, fabrication, special processes, and inspection/measurement to support the internal Anduril design process and ideation.
• Drive the supplier quality development processes throughout the product development stages with the product engineering team.
• Partner with development engineering, product quality engineering, sourcing engineering, category management and program management to deliver predictable supply to the development programs, production programs, and manage exceptions/containments/deviations for supplier technical performance.
• Drive supplier quality readiness by analyzing key and critical characteristics for drawings and supplier specification, develop measurement systems, and supplier qualification activities.
• Partner with Global Strategic Sourcing and Product Sourcing Engineering to drive overall supplier performance for cost, quality, delivery and fulfillment of strategic goals.
• Own the elimination of supplier risk to improve quality & reliability across the product lifecycle.
• Support Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) and Material Review Board (MRB) activities, while owning containments derived from purchased goods.
• Review supplier effectiveness of actions and share lessons learned across the product team.
• Audit the Quality Management System at our suppliers, as it pertains to supplier quality and performance.
• Prepare, support, and lead supplier onsite audits and reviews for contract deliverables for quality management and compliance.

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 and quality from prototype and proof of concept parts to low rate production to high rate production.
• Working knowledge of AS9100/ ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements.
• Experience performing First Article Inspection to AS9102 Industry Standard and ensuring suppliers have control plans and inspection processes that are capable of meeting product requirements.
• Experience with driving supplier performance and evaluation.
• Working knowledge of product development methodologies such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) elements.
• A strong ownership mindset with demonstrated capability to drive projects from start to completion.
• Analytical skills and experiences for data mining, data quality, metrics generation, issue management systems, 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 to suppliers, sourcing partners, and manufacturing locations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.
• Process Failure Modes Effects and Analysis (PFMEA) experience and developing source inspection plans and qualifying the inspection process capabilities.
• Experience with government contracts and MIL standard requirements.