Principal Reliability & Supplier Industrialization Engineer

Mach Industries; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA seeks a Principal Reliability Supplier Industrialization Engineer focused on mechanical hardware, composites, and castings to qualify, develop, and scale suppliers. You will translate mechanical design intent into production processes and manage supplier qualification from early design reviews through production readiness.

The role requires leading root-cause investigations, developing control plans and FMEAs, and coordinating with quality, manufacturing,

Qualifications

• Experience with mechanical hardware, composites, and castings.
• Ability to develop supplier qualification requirements and control plans.
• Experience leading supplier industrialization from design through production readiness.
• Willingness to travel up to 100%.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier industrialization for mechanical components, composite structures, castings, and related hardware from design release through production readiness.
• Support mechanical design reviews by identifying material, tooling, molding, casting, tolerance, inspection, and process risks.
• Develop commodity FMEAs, supplier qualification requirements, control plans, inspection methods, and acceptance criteria for critical mechanical hardware.
• Assess supplier capability across composite layup, curing, infusion, molding, casting, heat treatment, finishing, non-destructive inspection, and dimensional inspection.
• Establish first article requirements, process-validation plans, material-control methods, inspection coverage, and objective evidence for supplier production readiness.
• Monitor supplier performance using quality, delivery, yield, nonconformance, process-capability, material, and inspection data.
• Lead root-cause and corrective-action investigations for recurring supplier nonconformances, porosity, delamination, dimensional variation, surface defects, and process escapes.
• Support obsolescence, redesign, alternate-source, and supplier-transition activities while preserving configuration integrity and production continuity.
• Feed supplier lessons learned into mechanical design standards, manufacturing methods, inspection strategies, sourcing decisions, and reliability-growth activities.
• Up to 100% travel

Skills

Mechanical hardware experience

Composites experience

Castings experience

Supplier qualification

Job description

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA seeks a Principal Reliability Supplier Industrialization Engineer focused on mechanical hardware, composites, and castings to qualify, develop, and scale suppliers. You will translate mechanical design intent into production processes and manage supplier qualification from early design reviews through production readiness.

The role requires leading root-cause investigations, developing control plans and FMEAs, and coordinating with quality, manufacturing,