Sr. Aerospace QA Engineer (Quality Engineer, Senior)

Bring your passion for space!

Redwire is accelerating humanity’s expansion into space by delivering reliable, economical and sustainable infrastructure for future generations.

Redwire Space Components is accelerating humanity's expansion into space through specializing in manufacturing high-reliability satellite technologies, solutions, and products. These cutting-edge capabilities address cost and performance limitations that are helping to revolutionize spaceflight and are currently being utilized on missions with NASA, the Department of Defense, and several commercial space companies.

Summary

We have a current opportunity for a Sr. Aerospace QA Engineer located at our manufacturing facility in Marlborough, MA. In this role, we require prior Aerospace experience in a manufacturing environment with the ability to perform inspections and other technical duties, as required. You will be part of a small Quality Team with a Big Impact!

Responsibilities

• Work directly with manufacturing engineering to create and approve methods and procedures for fabricating, inspecting and testing of Aerospace products. Ensure the documentation is detailed and meets Aerospace standards.
• Collect, analyze and summarize data from quality inspections and finding reasons/ getting to root-cause of product problems, utilizing tools such as fishbone diagrams, 5 Whys, 8D’s, or other methods.
• Lead Non-conformance investigations with relevant teams 
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place that comply with AS9100 and ISO9001.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet AS9100 requirements and result in preventing similar defects in future builds.
• Support internal and external audits as required.   
• Work may include support of Quality metrics generation and reporting, Cause and Effect analysis, and Program customer interface. 
• Work with purchasing to ensure quality requirements are flowed down .
• Other duties, as assigned

Ideal Experience

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in engineering or related field
• 5+ years of QA Engineering and/or Manufacturing Engineering experience desired
• Experience may be substituted for education
• Knowledge of AS9100 and/or ISO9001 standards
• Knowledge of standard Aerospace Industry requirements.
• J-STD-001 Space Addendum knowledge and/or certification
• NASA 8739.1 and/or NAS8739.3 knowledge and/or certification
• Experience performing inspections to J-STD-001 and/or IPC 610
• US Citizen or US Person as defined by ITAR regulations

Desired Skills

• Experience with EE and Mechanical Drawings and Schematics
• Quality Assurance Experience in Aerospace or Military Industries.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills: ability to clearly communicate technical issues both verbally and produce detailed presentations and reports that are thorough and of high quality 
• Understanding of technical documentation and the requirements needed for Aerospace products.
• Self-starter, who strives to continuously improve processes.   
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment 

Don’t meet every single requirement above? No worries.  We want people who can grow, collaborate and build a stronger team.  We strive to build a diverse and inclusive culture, so if you’re excited about this job posting, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.