Lead Quality Engineer

3 weeks ago

Redondo Beach, United States Impulse Space Full time
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionDescriptionAs the Lead Quality Engineer at Impulse, you will be responsible for establishing our quality standards for all flight hardware. Working with propulsion, vehicle, avionics teams (and more) to ensure timely, and high quality built parts. Develop, maintain and continuously improve Impulse's quality system. 
Responsibilities
  • Establish quality methodology for tracking quality issues throughout the manufacturing process
  • Build, develop & maintain systems to address quality problems that improve reliability and speed production
  • Lead cross functional teams to deliver quality improvement projects
  • Assist the production and supply chain teams with hardware non-conformance tracking and ensuring all non-conformances are resolved quickly
  • Develop manufacturing quality standards and inspection procedures
  • Identify, source and set up quality inspection equipment and train operators on best practices and processes
  • Build out Impulse Quality Plan and documentation that build towards certification against AS9100

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
  • 5+ years in a fast paced manufacturing, quality, build reliability and/or design engineering role
  • Demonstrated experience building or optimizing a quality management system
  • A hands on approach to setting up quality systems and solving quality problems


Preferred Skills and Experience
  • 10+ years' in a quality leadership role 
  • Experience working with AS9100 
  • Demonstrated technical writing skills
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with engineering, production teams and all involved teams 

Additional Information:

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.


To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.  

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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