Principal Reliability Engineer — Turbomachinery

Mach Industries; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision plans

Equity participation

Paid time off

Job summary

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA, is seeking a Principal Reliability Supplier Industrialization Engineer focused on precision machining and turbomachinery to qualify, develop, and scale supplier capabilities from design release through production readiness.

The role spans Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Manufacturing, and suppliers, requiring hands-on work with machining processes, inspection data, and supplier facilities. Travel up to 100% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Ten or more years of experience in mechanical design, supplier industrialization, manufacturing engineering, supplier quality, and/or precision machining.
• Experience with precision machining processes, engineering drawings, GD&T, inspection methods, and process-capability analysis.
• Ability to evaluate supplier processes, identify technical risks, and define practical controls for complex hardware.
• Ability to communicate clearly with suppliers and cross-functional teams while managing multiple industrialization activities.
• Experience with FMEA, control plans, first article inspection, process validation, and structured root-cause and corrective-action methods.
• Experience with turbomachinery, rotating hardware, high-speed assemblies, bladed components, or tight-tolerance fluid systems.
• Experience with five-axis machining, CNC process development, mill-turn operations, balancing, or complex inspection systems.
• Experience supporting prototype-to-production transitions in a startup, high-growth manufacturing, or regulated hardware environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier industrialization for precision-machined components and turbomachinery from design release to production readiness.
• Identify machining risks, tolerance risks, inspection requirements, and process-control needs during design reviews.
• Develop FMEAs, supplier qualification requirements, control plans, and acceptance methods for critical hardware.
• Assess supplier capability across machining, heat treatment, surface finishing, balancing, inspection, and special processes.
• Establish process capability targets, first article requirements, inspection plans, and evidence for supplier readiness.
• Monitor supplier performance using quality, delivery, yield, nonconformance, and data.
• Lead root-cause investigations for recurring supplier nonconformances and hardware failures.
• Support obsolescence, redesign, and supplier-transition activities preserving config integrity.
• Feed supplier lessons learned into design standards, manufacturing methods, sourcing decisions, and reliability growth.
• Up to 100% travel.

Skills

Mechanical design

Supplier industrialization

Manufacturing engineering

Inspection methods

Communication with suppliers

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Five-axis machining

CNC process development

Balancing

Inspection systems

Job description

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA, is seeking a Principal Reliability Supplier Industrialization Engineer focused on precision machining and turbomachinery to qualify, develop, and scale supplier capabilities from design release through production readiness.

The role spans Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Manufacturing, and suppliers, requiring hands-on work with machining processes, inspection data, and supplier facilities. Travel up to 100% may be required.