Senior Supplier Quality Engineer (Electronics)

Senior Supplier Quality Engineer (Electronics)

As a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, you will be tasked with a unique challenge to drive to ZERO defects and scale Astranis production at suppliers as we build our satellite manufacturing business. The Supplier Quality team is responsible for the supplier identification, qualification, and development, including actively collaborating with suppliers in their process improvement and corrective action activities. 

The job involves conveying technical communications to executive and senior leadership internally; representing Astranis externally and engaging the suppliers’ diverse seniority and leadership into our space mission to provide internet and communications while scaling up our satellite manufacturing capacity; traveling to suppliers in different regions, and on-the-spot critical decision making.

This role is critical to develop the manufacturing capability of spaceflight hardware and software while ensuring extreme reliability to make Astranis a world-class satellite manufacturing company.

Role

• Visit and assess suppliers’ engineering and manufacturing capabilities and quality systems management in order to support sourcing activities and risk management strategies
• Lead failure analysis and root cause investigations with the suppliers, and drive implementation of corrective and preventive actions at supplier production sites
• Provide manufacturability and design feedback to product engineers to ensure appropriate specifications are called out on design documentation (2D Drawings, Product & Engineering Specifications, Work Instructions
• Author standard operating procedures, work instructions, and quality clauses for various commodities that standardize industries top manufacturing and inspection practices, and ensure they are flowdown and implemented across Astranis supply chain
• Develop Astranis systems to document supplier qualification, part qualification, supplier process qualification, and supplier scorecards
• Develop inspection procedures, acceptance criteria, sampling plans, and part handling requirements, and coach technicians that will inspect production flight hardware
• Develop Astranis systems to facilitate receiving inspection and incoming quality activities, part traceability, and non conformance reports and corrective action requests activities
• Support vendors development of appropriate documentation and data to be delivered during part qualification gates and delivery. And ultimately function as co-approver of certificates of compliance, end item data packages, and inspection and test reports

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Material Science/Physics or similar technical field
• 7+ years experience in a manufacturing engineering, design engineering, quality engineering, or supply chain engineering role
• Experience with PCBA production (surface mount technology), harness assembly, and/or EEE piece part procurement and screening
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes and experience on the production floor improving process parameters, and developing inspection methods (DOE, SPC, and Gage R&R)
• Comfortable analyzing data and delivering conclusions based on statistical analysis, commonality studies, and trend analysis
• Knowledge of supplier quality processes (production part approval process, advanced product quality planning, first article inspection reports, non conformance reports, etc.)
• Ability to work extended hours as needed to meet critical deadlines
• Ability to travel up to 40% of the time

Bonus

• Experience with PCBA production (surface mount technology), harness assembly, and/or EEE piece part procurement and screening
• Experience with process capability studies and setting up Statistical Process Control monitoring
• Experience in aerospace manufacturing, including AS9100 quality management system
• IPC-610 and -620 certification, and knowledge of RoHS and similar industry standards
• Knowledge of statistical techniques and methods, e.g., design of experiments, GR&R, process capability studies, statistical process control, etc.
• Has experience in failure analysis and material analysis techniques – SEM/EDX, TEM, XRF, XRD, CSAM, etc., curve tracing a plus
• Understanding of typical NPI and production ramp process including phase gates and milestones