Senior Avionics Reliability & Supplier Industrialization Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA seeks a Senior Reliability Supplier Industrialization Engineer focused on avionics and PCBA production readiness. You will translate design intent into capable assembly processes, supplier controls, inspection methods, and evidence for production readiness across design reviews to field support.

The role spans Electrical Engineering, Avionics, Supply Chain, Quality, and Manufacturing with hands-on supplier process development and significant collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical/electronic engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years in supplier industrialization, electronics manufacturing, supplier quality, or avionics production.
• Experience with PCB assembly, cable/harness fabrication, electrical inspection, or related processes.
• Experience with FMEA, control plans, first article inspection, process validation, and RCA methods.
• Ability to evaluate supplier processes, identify risks, and define practical controls for high-reliability hardware.
• Ability to communicate clearly with suppliers and cross-functional teams while managing multiple activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier industrialization for avionics assemblies, PCBA, cable harnesses, and related electrical hardware from design release to production readiness.
• Support avionics design reviews by identifying assembly, testability, component, soldering, routing, and harness-integration risks.
• Develop commodity FMEAs, supplier qualification requirements, control plans, inspection methods, and acceptance criteria for critical electrical hardware.
• Assess supplier capability across SMT, through-hole, soldering, coating, cable fabrication, crimping, and electrical test.
• Establish first article requirements, process-validation plans, workmanship standards, inspection coverage, and evidence for production readiness.
• Monitor supplier performance using quality, delivery, yield, nonconformance, process capability, and test data.
• Lead root-cause and corrective-action investigations for recurring nonconformances and failures.
• Support obsolescence, redesign, alternate-source, and supplier-transition activities while preserving configuration integrity.
• Feed supplier lessons learned into avionics design standards, manufacturing methods, inspection strategies, and sourcing decisions.
• Up to 100% travel.

Skills

Electronics manufacturing

Supplier quality

FMEA

PCB assembly

Root cause analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

IPC-A-610

IPC/WHMA-A-620

J-STD-001

Job description

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA seeks a Senior Reliability Supplier Industrialization Engineer focused on avionics and PCBA production readiness. You will translate design intent into capable assembly processes, supplier controls, inspection methods, and evidence for production readiness across design reviews to field support.

The role spans Electrical Engineering, Avionics, Supply Chain, Quality, and Manufacturing with hands-on supplier process development and significant collaboration