Senior Aerospace Supplier Quality Engineer

BlackCube Labs; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 106,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is actively seeking a seasoned Quality professional to lead supplier qualification and development across harnessing commodity sourcing. You will conduct supplier audits, manage nonconformances, and drive containment and improvement actions to protect program quality and delivery.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing and Program teams, ensure compliance with AS9100/ISO 9001, ITAR and DFARS, and travel up to 20% to supplier sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Knowledge of AS9100 and/or ISO 9001 quality-management systems.
• Experience with supplier qualification, development, PPAP, and First Article Inspection (AS9102).
• Understanding of ITAR, EAR, DFARS, and aerospace/defense supplier requirements.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and supplier relationship-management skills.
• MS Office and ERP/MRP proficiency.
• Ability to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Conduct supplier qualification, risk assessments, periodic performance reviews, supplier audits, source inspections, and approved-supplier status across the harnessing commodity supply base.
• Ensure supplier requirements are effectively flowed down and that suppliers comply with applicable quality management system, engineering, customer, contractual, regulatory, and statutory requirements.
• Escalate significant supplier-quality risks and direct SCARs, supplier recovery efforts, and capability-improvement plans that could affect product quality, delivery, mission readiness, or program execution.
• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Program teams to address supplier producibility, design-for-manufacturability, process capability, technical execution, and quality risks.
• Advance supplier-quality processes, business systems, data analytics, and continuous-improvement practices that strengthen supplier capability, product quality, delivery performance, and supply-base resilience.

Skills

Root-cause analysis

8D

5 Whys

Fishbone analysis

PPAP

First Article Inspection

ERP/MRP

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related technical discipline

Tools

ERP/MRP systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

Shield AI is actively seeking a seasoned Quality professional to lead supplier qualification and development across harnessing commodity sourcing. You will conduct supplier audits, manage nonconformances, and drive containment and improvement actions to protect program quality and delivery.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing and Program teams, ensure compliance with AS9100/ISO 9001, ITAR and DFARS, and travel up to 20% to supplier sites.