Principal Engineer Mission Assurance

Description

The company runs mission assurance work for its programs, covering proposals, planning, design, manufacturing, integration and test.

In this role you will be part of an integrated product team and work with the Mission Assurance staff to solve quality and technical problems, keep programs on their requirements, and protect mission success.

You will liaise with customers, vendors and internal groups including Program Management, Planning, Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Integration and Test to find and fix quality and flight assurance issues.

Responsibilities

• Build and keep up quality assurance programs, procedures and controls so that products and services meet company standards.
• Help write, roll out and maintain quality policy and procedures within the Quality Management System, including internal audits to check conformance.
• Work with suppliers to verify product design, quality and reliability.
• Look at current practices and processes, find ways to work better and cut risk to product quality.
• Read customer technical and mission assurance requirements and make sure they appear in program plans, specifications and drawings.
• Make sure contract requirements reach the production floor and suppliers.
• Confirm compliance with contract, quality, organizational and industry alert requirements.
• Oversee discrepancy reviews, failure investigations, and decisions on cause and corrective action.
• Study trends in key metrics and carry out improvements based on the data.
• Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) analysis and solve problems in programs, the quality system and business systems.
• Represent Mission Assurance at program reviews and boards, such as the Configuration Control Board (CCB), Material Review Board (MRB), Program Management Reviews (PMR), design and peer reviews, Manufacturing and Test Readiness Reviews (MRR/TRR) and Corrective Action Board (CAB).
• Make sure risk work, including design and process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (dFMEA/pFMEA), follows standards and procedures.

Requirements

• Have 9 or more years as a quality or mission assurance engineer, or a Bachelor's degree in a relevant STEM field plus 5 years of experience, or a Master's in STEM plus 3 years of experience.
• Apply a full working understanding of core engineering principles, practices and theory.
• Read engineering documents such as drawings, models and specifications, interpret dimensions, features and parts lists, build inspection plans, and spot critical features.
• Use Word, Excel and PowerPoint at an intermediate to advanced level, and work across multiple enterprise-wide systems.
• Communicate well in writing and speaking, with strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Work well in a team.
• Be able to obtain a DoD Secret clearance, which requires US citizenship.
• Preferred: hold an active Secret security clearance.
• Preferred: hold an accredited certification in quality or mission assurance.
• Preferred: know key materials, technologies or processes such as machining, welding, CT scanning, additive manufacturing, laser or light inspection, and chemical processing.
• Preferred: have experience with process control and improvement, and know Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma or similar tools.
• Preferred: know Root Cause and Corrective Action tools such as Ishikawa, FMEA, DOE, KTA (Kepner Tregoe Analysis) and 5 Why.

Conditions

Relocation assistance may be available.

No security clearance is needed to start, but the role is Secret clearance type.

Travel is about 10% of the time.

The primary base salary range is $108,800.00 to $136,200.00, a general guideline that depends on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and market conditions.

The application window is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• Depending on the role, you may be eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus on top of base pay.
• Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and let you share in company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, paid company holidays, and paid time off (PTO) for vacation or personal business.