Space Hardware Quality Engineer

Orbit Fab; Lafayette (CO); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbit Fab in Lafayette, Colorado, is seeking a Quality Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of spacecraft components. You will define and improve quality processes, drive non-conformance resolution, and collaborate with development and test teams to solve challenging technical issues.

You will partner with engineering and operations to create flight-quality plans, enhance supplier QA, lead MRB activities, and ensure compliance with external standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field.
• Quality and subject matter expert in aerospace & defense industry and government specifications & standards for flight hardware, software, and electronics
• Ability to provide technical quality leadership across the value stream, including raw material, vendor components, and internal/external manufacturing
• Familiar with quality standards such as ISO9001 or AS9001 as well as approaches such as Reliability Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, and Six Sigma
• Conversant in Quality Assurance vs. Quality Control and able to compare/contrast both approaches
• Experience leading a technical team in Quality initiatives and transitions from development to production
• Experience with coordinate-measuring machines (CMMs), hand measurement techniques, and metrology a plus
• Strong verbal and written communication with team members, stakeholders, and customers, including the ability to develop and deliver clear, compelling technical presentations
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work in and contribute to a diverse and cross functional, multi-disciplinary team environment
• Must be willing and able to work a hybrid schedule (3-5 days a week on site) out of our Lafayette, CO office

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering and operations teams through product development and production to create quality plans for flight products, including identification of key characteristics, development testing for functionality and manufacturability, and consideration of past failures and lessons learned
• Work with engineering and procurement to enhance supplier quality assurance and incoming receiving inspection processes. Conduct component first article and detailed inspections and document and lead our Material Review Board (MRB) process
• Implement standards, tools, and methods to ensure the effectiveness of quality processes and sustain quality performance improvements
• Review designs and work instructions and provide feedback to mitigate manufacturability and inspection challenges
• Provide research and interpretation of regulations and requirements to ensure compliance with external standards
• Participate in technical operations and offer guidance and/or serve as an additional technical engineering resource
• Support manufacturing compliance with customer and internal specifications to meet contractual and mission requirements
• Serve as expert resource in Quality Engineering (QE) principles, tools, methods, and standards
• Lead company’s nonconformance process and drive root causes and corrective actions
• Enhance company’s quality metrics

Skills

Quality leadership

Aerospace QC

Cross-functional collab

Regulatory knowledge

Metrology

Communications

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

CMMs

MRB process

Job description

Orbit Fab in Lafayette, Colorado, is seeking a Quality Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of spacecraft components. You will define and improve quality processes, drive non-conformance resolution, and collaborate with development and test teams to solve challenging technical issues.

You will partner with engineering and operations to create flight-quality plans, enhance supplier QA, lead MRB activities, and ensure compliance with external standards.