Senior Build Reliability Engineer, Second Shift Verified today
About the Role
You will shape quality systems for the Terran R launch vehicle as it scales from development into full production. The Reliability team embeds quality into every stage of design and production, staying close to hardware and proactively influencing decisions across design, manufacturing, test, and launch.
Your ownership may include:
- Design: drawing standardization, design for manufacturability (DFM), and configuration management and control
- Planning: work instruction review, process development, standard rework and repair documentation
- Manufacturing: in-process build verification, coordination of travelled work
- Program: nonconformance ticket processes, as-built verification, root cause and corrective action
- Quality initiatives: specification development, walkdown checklists, automation for quality inspection, DFM practices, and scaling processes with the program
- Cross-functional partnerships with Engineering, Additive Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Test, and Launch teams
This is a second shift position: 3pm to 1:30am PT, Monday through Friday. The baseline expectation is a 50-hour workweek. Employees receive a 10% shift differential in addition to salary.
About You
Required:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or other STEM field
- Minimum 5 years of experience as a Quality Engineer at a fast-paced manufacturing company
- Extensive experience interfacing with design engineering, manufacturing, production, and test personnel
- In-depth knowledge of aerospace manufacturing and complex assembly practices, including typical quality processes and controls
- Working knowledge of PLM, MES, ERP, and QMS software
- Proficiency with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
- Ability to solve difficult problems in imaginative and practical ways, evaluate alternative solutions, and coordinate across multiple teams
- Ability to establish goals and objectives to complete projects
- Effective communication and presentation skills for team members, leaders, and senior management
- Well-versed in process development and first-time quality efforts
Nice to have:
- Working knowledge of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Statistical Process Control (SPC), and Production Process Verification (PPV)
- New product introduction (NPI) of hardware systems into manufacturing, test, and production with proven success