Senior Production & Quality Engineer — Onsite DoD M&QE Leader

KAIROS Inc; Lexington Park (MD); On-site; USD 148,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Coverage

Dental & Vision

401K Plan with Employer Matching

Annual Bonuses

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Community outreach

Job summary

KAIROS, Inc. seeks a Senior Production and Quality Engineer to be on-site at NAS Patuxent River, MD, with 30% travel to industry sites. The role supports a classified program within M&QE, providing production and quality expertise across design reviews and readiness assessments.

qualifications include a Master’s degree (or Bachelor’s with 4 years of related experience) and at least 10 years in engineering, including DoD experience. Active Secret clearance is required.

Qualifications

• 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 an additional four years of recent and relevant experience may be substituted.
• Must have minimum of ten (10) years of recent and relevant experience in an engineering position, three (3) years of which must be directly related to DoD systems.

Responsibilities

• 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 to examine scalability.
• 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, manufacturing and 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 and process oriented technical inputs.
• Identify the 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 to assist M&QE Division leadership in improving M&QE products and capabilities so that they optimally support programs and fleet readiness.

Skills

Industrial Engineering

M&Q skills

Engineering expertise

Customer relations

Self-starter

Microsoft Office

Team-oriented

Independent work

Multi-tasking

Detail oriented

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Adapt to evolving technology

Education

Master’s Degree in a technical or scientific field

Bachelor’s Degree in a technical or scientific field + 4 years of relevant experience

Job description

KAIROS, Inc. seeks a Senior Production and Quality Engineer to be on-site at NAS Patuxent River, MD, with 30% travel to industry sites. The role supports a classified program within M&QE, providing production and quality expertise across design reviews and readiness assessments.

qualifications include a Master’s degree (or Bachelor’s with 4 years of related experience) and at least 10 years in engineering, including DoD experience. Active Secret clearance is required.