Title:  Sr. Associate Quality Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Associate Quality Engineer

Job Code: 28784

Job Location: Huntsville, AL

Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

We are seeking an Sr. Associate, Quality Engineer to work at our new Advanced Manufacturing Facility (AMF) in Huntsville, AL, which is our inert manufacturing facility for fabrication and assembly of composite rocket motor hardware.

The Sr. Associate, Quality Engineer works under moderate supervision to set objectives for own job area. Communicates with contacts inside and outside of the team to explain and interpret operational processes, practices, and procedures Identifies and addresses changes within own job area. Works to achieve operational targets with some impact on departmental results. 

Essential Functions: 

• Oversee inventory, recall, scheduling, prioritization, and documentation of tooling activities to ensure tools meet operational standards.
• Work cross-functionally to implement quality control measures, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of tools critical to production processes.
• Utilize engineering expertise to communicate between team members and customer counterparts, providing assurance that tooling is compliant with specifications.
• Handle and communicate deviations/nonconformance at different levels within the organization.
• Understand and communicate typical aerospace processes (e.g., machining, welding, non-destructive testing) and their application to the hardware being manufactured.
• Interpret engineering drawings and specifications, customer quality requirements, and company quality requirements to ensure compliance with customer expectations.
• Support the Calibration Lead with the scheduling, execution, and documentation of calibration activities to ensure measurement devices meet standards.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: 

• Requires practical knowledge of manufacturing, quality and GD&T.
• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience; or a Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience; or in lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience. 

Preferred Additional Skills: