Aerospace Supplier Development Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC

Brownsville (TX)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in Texas is seeking a Supplier Development Engineer (Mechanical Engineering) to drive manufacturing readiness for rocket hardware, lead NPI, and determine best production methods with suppliers. You will perform DFM reviews early, qualify suppliers, and create robust processes to ramp parts to rate, tackling high-impact manufacturing and quality challenges.

This role requires collaboration across procurement, engineering, and supply chain, with a bias toward

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
1+ years of experience manufacturing or inspecting mechanical products in a production environment.
Ability to work extended hours and travel up to 40-50%.

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical point of contact for assigned parts and assemblies of the rocket, solving emergent challenges at suppliers, and mitigating risk to the manifest by addressing high-impact manufacturing and quality challenges.
Own the new product introduction of new assemblies on the rocket, including determining the ideal manufacturing method, identifying suppliers, and developing a reliable process for ramping to rate.
Conduct design for manufacturing (DFM) reviews to ensure parts are manufacturable at early stages, preferably prior to sourcing.
Work with procurement to find exceptional suppliers and vet them appropriately for quality and ability to meet our aggressive takt times.
Create and develop specifications as needed to flow down quality and manufacturing requirements to the supply base.
Scope out new forming, cutting, and inspection technologies and suppliers that may be employed to improve rate/quality/efficiency.
Review issues on assigned parts and solve to the root cause, implementing changes at the supplier, at the company or both, drive further actions to closure, and re-source to new suppliers where appropriate.
Create and disposition issue tickets where needed, working with engineering counterparts to implement, but not limited to, required re-work, repair or use as-is disposition.
Become thoroughly familiar with your assigned parts and the processes that make up the overall assembly and become the primary point of contact for supply chain related defects on your parts.