Senior Associate, Quality Engineer 2

PDS Defense, Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 88,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Career counseling

Paid holidays

Disability insurance

Skills training

Employee referral bonus

Medical coverage

DailyPay

Job summary

PDS Defense, Inc. in Redmond, WA is seeking a Senior Associate, Quality Engineer 2 to lead quality assurance on aerospace hardware projects.

This role works under moderate supervision on moderately complex assignments, coordinating with customers and vendors to ensure compliance with specifications. Responsibilities include interpreting drawings and specs, handling deviations, and applying Lean/Six Sigma methods to improve operations.

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively establish positive working relationships with various operational groups, all levels of employees, suppliers, and customers.
• Exposure to product development in a multi-functional team environment is desired.
• Interprets engineering drawings and specifications, customer quality requirements, and company quality requirements to ensure compliance with the customer's expectations.

Responsibilities

• Communicates with contacts within and outside of own team which may include customers or vendors.
• Applies modern quality principles, concepts, and methods to routine aerospace and manufacturing operation, including Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools.
• Maintains and communicates deviations/nonconformance at different levels within the organization.
• Interfaces with the Material Review Board (MRB) to provide technical justification when a nonconformance to mutually agreed specifications is determined.
• Reviews and dispositions nonconforming product.
• Ensures hardware compliance to specifications through effective quality assurance processes.

Skills

Quality engineering

Lean Six Sigma

Interpersonal skills

Engineering drawings

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Engineering

Senior Associate, Quality Engineer 2 Redmond, WA Posted: 4/1/2026

Job Description

Job ID#:

216399

Job Category:

Engineering

Position Type:

Associate - W2

Shift:

1

PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking a Senior Associate, Quality Engineer 2, in Redmond, WA. Job ID#216399

Pay Rate: $45-50/hr.

Job Description:

Senior Associate, Quality Engineer works under moderate supervision and independently on larger, moderately complex projects or assignments. Communicates with contacts within and outside of own team which may include customers or vendors. Makes basic adjustments to systems and processes to solve problems. Works to achieve operational targets that impact department results.

Essential Functions:

Utilizes engineering background and expertise to communicate between team members and customer counterparts to provide assurance that the hardware is compliant to specifications. Handles and communicates deviations/ nonconformance at different levels within the organization. Understands and communicates typical aerospace processes (machining, welding, non-destructive testing, etc.) and how they are applied to the hardware being manufactured.

Applies modern quality principles, concepts, and methods to routine aerospace and manufacturing operation, including Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools.

Interprets engineering drawings and specifications, customer quality requirements, and company quality requirements to ensure compliance with the customer's expectations.

Participates in the review and disposition of nonconforming product.

Interfaces with the Material Review Board (MRB) to provide technical justification when a nonconformance to mutually agreed specifications is determined.

Skills:

Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively establish positive working relationships with various operational groups, all levels of employees, suppliers, and customers.

Exposure to product development in a multi-functional team environment is desired.

Education:

Requires Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience

Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.

Job Requirements

Minimum Security Clearance:

No Clearance

Military connected talent encouraged to apply.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled

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• The California Fair Chance Act

• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled