Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, Precision Mechanical

We are seeking a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, Precision Mechanical to join our team.

As a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, you will work inside & outside the organisation to define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high quality & reliable precision machined parts used in our missile and high-speed aircraft programmes.

This role focuses on collaborating and driving early engagement with our design teams and suppliers to meet our quality requirements the first time.

Responsibilities

• Partner with our design teams to support the design development process, provide design for manufacturability feedback, and help generate product data (drawings details, BOM information, and part requirements) for precision mechanical parts that lead to supplier quality success.

• Use your knowledge and expertise of machining, moulding, additive manufacturing, fabrication, special processes, and inspection/measurement to support the internal Anduril design process and ideation. Provide leadership to manage technical risks, proof of concepts, prototyping, and scaling designs for volume production.

• Drive the supplier quality development processes throughout the product development stages with the product engineering team through design reviews, supplier process development, testing, and qualification for components and sub-assemblies for precision mechanical parts. Review supplier processes and capabilities to ensure alignment to mechanical & sub-assembly requirements can be achieved.

• Partner with development engineering, product quality engineering, sourcing engineering, category management and program management to deliver predictable supply to the development programmes, production programmes, and manage exceptions/containments/deviations for supplier technical performance, particularly in the development phases.

• Drive supplier quality readiness by analysing key and critical characteristics for drawings and supplier specification, develop measurement systems, and supplier qualification activities (PPAP, FAIR, Audit, inspection development, etc.).

• Partner with Global Strategic Sourcing and Product Sourcing Engineering to drive overall supplier performance for cost, quality, delivery and fulfilment of strategic goals.

• Own the elimination of supplier risk to improve quality & reliability across the product lifecycle. Utilise audits, readiness reviews, and training & documentation to ensure compliance.

• 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. Drive supplier corrective action and response (SCAR) process.

• Audit the Quality Management System at our suppliers, as it pertains to supplier quality and performance. Define and improve required documentation and activities as needed to ensure Anduril’s compliance to flow-down requirements from customers.

• Prepare, support, and lead supplier onsite audits and reviews for contract deliverables for quality management and compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Metallurgy or similar technical field.

• Experience with producing precision mechanical parts for aerospace or defence.

• Experience in scaling supplier capabilities and quality from prototype and proof of concept parts to low rate production to high rate production. Experience performing source inspection at mechanical manufacturing suppliers, aerospace and defence suppliers is a plus. Experience flowing down Source Control requirements to Suppliers

• Working knowledge of AS9100/ ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements. AS9100 Lead / Internal Auditor Certification or equivalent is a plus.

• 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. Experience with Statement of Work (SOW), quality clauses, intellectual property (IP), and government regulations such as ITAR, etc..

• 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 such as Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), quality improvement techniques, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).

• 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 (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.

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, anodise, 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

• Experience with Teamcenter, NX, Oracle/Netsuite, Jira, and Foundry