Senior Production and Quality Engineer

KAIROS, Inc.; Maryland; On-site; USD 148,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

KAIROS, Inc. is seeking a Senior Production & Quality Engineer to join our team on-site at NAS Patuxent River in Lexington Park, MD. The role requires strong M&Q capability, DoD-related engineering experience, and an Active Secret clearance.

Expect heavy collaboration across PMs, engineering and quality teams in a fast-paced environment. The position emphasizes producibility reviews, design for manufacturing, risk assessments, and readiness for production across multiple acquisition phases.

Qualifications

• Industrial engineering background is desired.
• M&Q skills highly desired.
• Demonstrated experience in engineering is required.
• Strong customer relations, analytics, and documentation skills.
• Microsoft Office proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Ability to work in a challenging, fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• Ability to work independently and multi-task to meet deadlines.
• Detail oriented with good interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication to provide status and issues.
• Ability to adapt to evolving technology.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for Production & Quality of an early development classified program.
• Evaluate design producibility and manufacturing/quality planning activities.
• Prepare technical risk assessments for decision meetings.
• Support production readiness and PRRs.
• Provide technical inputs in design reviews and program meetings.
• Identify root causes of manufacturing/quality issues and recommend solutions.
• Support audits and reviews (PCAs, MRAs, QSEs, EIs).
• Assist leadership in improving M&QE products and capabilities.

Skills

Industrial engineering background

M&Q skills

engineering experience

customer relations

analytics

documentation

MS Office proficiency

fast-paced environment

independent work

multi-tasking

attention to detail

interpersonal skills

communication skills

adapt to evolving tech

Education

Master’s Degree in technical or scientific field

Bachelor’s Degree + 4 years experience substitution

10 years DoD-related engineering experience

Job description

KAIROS, Inc is searching for an energetic, experienced, and highly motivated Senior ProductionandQualityEngineer, to join our team. This position will be on-site at NAS Patuxent River, MD and 30% travel to Industry sites. This work is not eligible for teleworking.

Established in July 2013, KAIROS, Inc. is a growing Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) specializing in Life Cycle Program Management, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Logistics and Sustainment, Enterprise Platforms and AI, and Additive Manufacturing services focused on optimizing customers’ program performance and mission through proven methodologies and ethical practices. Our headquarters is in California, MD near Naval Air Station Patuxent River. We offer competitive salaries and benefits with outstanding growth potential.

This position will perform research analysis and technical domain engineering support in M&QE for a classified program at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Lexington Park, MD.

Primary Duties:

• Provide support for Production & Quality of an early development classified program.

• Examine suppliers and perform facilities evaluations assessing contractor design, development and manufacturing/quality planning activities, ensuring that production and producibility considerations are being appropriately integrated into the systems engineering process.

• Conduct quality research and data analysis to provide support in the establishment of M&QE requirements and management of M&QE efforts through all acquisition phases, including capacity analysis toexamine forscalability.

• Evaluate design producibility, manufacturing planning and proposed or actual production/quality processes considering program affordability needs and with respect to established schedules and production plans.

• Prepare technical risk assessments for decision meetings and related briefings.

• Support the M&QE Division and IPT in planning and leading design,manufacturingand quality risk reduction efforts, producibility assessments and Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs).

• Provide technical support for producibility and manufacturing discussions in design reviews and program/technical meetings and provide design andprocess orientedtechnical inputs.

• Identifythe causes of potential or actual manufacturing, producibility, or quality problems and recommend solutions to M&QE and IPT management via briefing or written correspondence.

• Support the M&QE lead during the conduct of Physical Configuration Audits (PCAs), Manufacturing Readiness Assessments (MRAs), Quality System Evaluations (QSEs), Engineering Investigations (EIs), and other M&QE reviews. Support Systems Engineering Technical Reviews (SETR) events.

• Conduct quality research and data analysis toassistM&QE Division leadership in improving M&QE products and capabilities so that they optimally support programs and fleet readiness.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Industrial Engineering background is desired
• M&Q skills highly desired
• Demonstrated experience in an area of engineering expertise isrequired.
• Strong customer relations, analytics, and documentation skills
• Self-starter, highly motivated, strong work ethic with a commitment to quality
• Microsoft office suite proficiency, i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Ability to work within a challenging, fast-paced, team-oriented environment
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to multi-task and meet competing, deliverable deadlines
• Detail oriented
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to provide clear status and/or communicate issues
• Ability to adapt to evolving technology

Education and Experience:

• Must have a Master’s Degree in a technical or scientific field from an accredited college or university
• In lieu of a Master’s Degree, a Bachelor’s Degree in a technical or scientific field from an accredited college or university and anadditionalfour (4) years of recent and relevant experience may be substituted
• Must haveminimumof ten (10) years of recent and relevant experience in an engineering position, three (3) years of which must bedirectly relatedto DoD systems.

Clearance: This position is subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. In order to complete the requirements for government security clearance investigation you must be a U.S. Citizen and be able to complete the full background investigation. This position requires an Active Secret Security Clearance.

Compensation: While skills, education, and experience are key factors, they are not the sole determinants of salary. Other determining factors include but are not limited to location, contract budgets and requirements, and government labor category guidelines. The estimated salary range for this position is $148,000 to $164,000. KAIROS also provides a comprehensive benefits package as additional employee compensation.