Senior Reliability & Supplier Industrialization Engineer

Mach Industries Inc.; Huntington Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity participation

Professional development

Retirement plans

Job summary

Mach Industries, a defense technology company, seeks a Principal Reliability Supplier Industrialization Engineer focused on mechanical hardware, composites, and castings in Huntington Beach, CA.

You will qualify, develop, and scale suppliers to meet engineering and production requirements, translating design intent into capable processes while collaborating across design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, materials engineering, manufacturing engineering, or equivalent.
• Ten or more years of experience in supplier industrialization, manufacturing engineering, supplier quality, composites, castings, or related mechanical hardware.
• Experience with composite fabrication, casting processes, mechanical drawings, GD&T, inspection methods, or material and process controls.
• Ability to evaluate supplier processes, identify technical risks, and define practical controls for complex mechanical hardware.
• Ability to communicate clearly with suppliers and cross-functional teams while managing multiple industrialization activities.

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

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Job description

Mach Industries, a defense technology company, seeks a Principal Reliability Supplier Industrialization Engineer focused on mechanical hardware, composites, and castings in Huntington Beach, CA.

You will qualify, develop, and scale suppliers to meet engineering and production requirements, translating design intent into capable processes while collaborating across design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams.