Aerospace Quality Engineer — Flight Hardware

Orbit Fab; Wisconsin; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully covered benefits

Discretionary time off

Flexible work hours

Job summary

Orbit Fab is seeking a Quality Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of spacecraft components. You’ll develop and implement quality plans, lead nonconformance investigations, and collaborate with design, manufacturing, and suppliers to improve processes.

Join a cross-functional team, apply QE principles to drive defects out of the product lifecycle, and support compliance with aerospace standards in a hybrid Lafayette, CO environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field
• Quality and subject matter expert in aerospace & defense industry and government specifications & standards for flight hardware, software, and electronics
• Ability to provide technical quality leadership across the value stream, including raw material, vendor components, and internal/external manufacturing
• Familiar with quality standards such as ISO9001 or AS9001 as well as approaches such as Reliability Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, and Six Sigma
• Conversant in Quality Assurance vs. Quality Control and able to compare/contrast both approaches
• Experience leading a technical team in Quality initiatives and transitions from development to production
• Experience with coordinate-measuring machines (CMMs), hand measurement techniques, and metrology a plus
• Strong verbal and written communication with team members, stakeholders, and customers, including the ability to develop and deliver clear, compelling technical presentations
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work in and contribute to a diverse and cross functional, multi-disciplinary team environment
• Must be willing and able to work a hybrid schedule (3-5 days a week on site) out of our Lafayette, CO office

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering and operations teams through product development and production to create quality plans for flight products, including identification of key characteristics, development testing for functionality and manufacturability, and consideration of past failures and lessons learned
• Work with engineering and procurement to enhance supplier quality assurance and incoming receiving inspection processes. Conduct component first article and detailed inspections and document and lead our Material Review Board (MRB) process
• Implement standards, tools, and methods to ensure the effectiveness of quality processes and sustain quality performance improvements
• Review designs and work instructions and provide feedback to mitigate manufacturability and inspection challenges
• Provide research and interpretation of regulations and requirements to ensure compliance with external standards
• Participate in technical operations and offer guidance and/or serve as an additional technical engineering resource
• Support manufacturing compliance with customer and internal specifications to meet contractual and mission requirements
• Serve as expert resource in Quality Engineering (QE) principles, tools, methods, and standards
• Lead company’s nonconformance process and drive root causes and corrective actions
• Enhance company’s quality metrics

Skills

Aerospace quality leadership

ISO/AS quality standards

QA vs QC expertise

CMM/metrology experience

Strong communication

Leadership in quality initiatives

Hybrid on-site work

Supplier quality & MRB

Product life cycle knowledge

Regulatory interpretation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering

Job description

Orbit Fab is seeking a Quality Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of spacecraft components. You’ll develop and implement quality plans, lead nonconformance investigations, and collaborate with design, manufacturing, and suppliers to improve processes.

Join a cross-functional team, apply QE principles to drive defects out of the product lifecycle, and support compliance with aerospace standards in a hybrid Lafayette, CO environment.