# Quality Engineering Specialist **Company**: Anduril **Location**: Costa Mesa, California **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $48-$64 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Manufacturing **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5272356007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_5a559c48-932 ## Description We are looking for a Quality Engineering Specialist to join our team in Costa Mesa, CA. As a Quality Specialist, you will be responsible for monitoring, inspecting, and proposing measures to correct or improve final products to meet established quality standards. **Responsibilities:** - Manage the site Materials Review Board (MRB) process - Be fully embedded within the manufacturing process to actively assist in providing resolution, containment, and improvement to nonconforming materials - Review Manufacturing Work Instructions and provide feedback - Support providing clarification or go/no-go decisions to inspectors - Lead and own the execution of containment of nonconforming items, including inspecting to verify non-conforming parts - Assist in root cause analysis - Manage internal triage with engineering teams to support nonconformance dispositions and ensure investigative tasks are completed in a timely manner - Ensure data collection and entry is accurate and complete for the MRB process - Communicate process performance and quality issues to key stakeholders to drive improvements - Track and report out MRB metrics on a weekly basis - Execute vendor return material authorization (RMA) with partnership between Warehouse and Buyers to ensure material leaves the MRB area for suppliers - Manage quality containment process for material, tooling, and inspection equipment involved in non-conformances impacting production capacity and capability - Create inspection plans for incoming material, in-process inspection steps, and end of line inspection, as per direction from product quality engineers - Train technicians and inspectors to execute inspection plans and data capture in the process - Propose, develop, and implement quality assurance policies and procedures, and review with product quality engineers - Review and propose continuous improvement projects for productivity gains, quality improvements, and benefits to Anduril's quality policy - Perform internal audits on processes and procedures, as per direction from Quality Systems Engineer - Deep dive into data and traceability investigations to identify trends, oddities, inconsistencies, and variation that impact the effectiveness of processes, procedures, and product quality - Stay current with new inspection technologies and techniques, and recommend improvements to the inspection process **Requirements:** - Associate degree or equivalent in a relevant field, or equivalent experience in lieu of education - 5+ years of experience in manufacturing and/or a quality/engineering related role - Experience in a manufacturing environment supporting HW development and quality management - Proficiency with computer-aided design (CAD) software and inspection data management software - Ability to work independently and as part of a team - Attention to detail and strong organizational skills - Experience with calibrated equipment (calipers, micrometers, CMM, Faro arm, OMM, etc.) - Experience reading and interpreting engineering drawings (wire diagrams, work instructions, CAD) - Analyze inspection results and provide feedback to production, manufacturing engineering, and quality engineering departments - Experience using investigative equipment such as x-ray inspection, digital characterization, material certificate of compliance, etc. - Experience in a facility with AS9100, ISO9001, IATF 16949 or similar QMS standard - Experience with validation and testing assemblies and their components - Experience with communicating with suppliers and cross-functional teams - Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance **Preferred Qualifications:** - Technical or Associate's degree in related quality/mechanical/aerospace engineering field - Direct experience conducting First Article Inspection and Report for internal manufacturing - ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Quality Improvement Associate, or equivalent. IPC-A-610 or IPC-A-620 Certification - Existing work experience in a low-rate production manufacturing environment - Knowledge and understanding of dimensioning and tolerancing as per Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) - Experience with inspection of Electrical and Electronic Components (Power Supplies, PCBs, wire-harnesses) - Experience with Manufacturing processes and their related systems (Jira, MES, ERP, Teamcenter, CAD) - Experience with auditing processes and procedures in a manufacturing environment - Detail-oriented self-starter with minimal oversight, strong ability to communicate with different cross-functional teams ## Skills ### Required - CAD software - inspection data management software - calibrated equipment - engineering drawings - investigative equipment - AS9100 - ISO9001 - IATF 16949 ### Nice to have - Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) - Electrical and Electronic Components inspection - Manufacturing processes and systems - auditing processes and procedures --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5272356007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)