Reliability Engineer for Flight Components

4 weeks ago

Cape Canaveral FL, United States SpaceX Full time

Reliability Engineer for Flight Components

At SpaceX, we're pushing the boundaries of space technology and exploring the cosmos. As a Reliability Engineer for Flight Components, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability of our flight components and assemblies. This involves evaluating product and process output data to drive improvements in manufacturing quality and actively representing quality objectives in design and development teams.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design for Manufacture: Participate in Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR) / Critical Design Reviews (CDR) to ensure design for quality (DFQ), design for manufacturability (DFM), risk quantification and mitigation, and that appropriate test validation methods and inspection techniques, including nondestructive evaluation methods, have been considered.
  • Hands-on Development: Develop design for manufacturability through ensuring identification of key characteristics, prototype testing for manufacturability, First Article and Detailed Inspection planning, evaluation of previous non-conformances and lessons learned, and other manufacturing and quality tools as required.

Inspection and Test Process:

  • Lead Inspection Planning: Lead inspection planning for new products through identification of features and gages, and integration with planned operations.
  • Design and Procurement: Design or procure new measurement methods as required and integrates with existing processes.
  • Validation and Improvement: Validate new and existing measurement and tests methods using process capability and measurement systems analysis (MSA) statistical tools. Propose solutions to remove the need to verify product conformance through measurement, e.g. poka yoke.
  • Collaboration with Production Quality Inspectors: Work with Production Quality inspectors to understand inspections with subjective criteria or those that need improvement.

First Build Reviews and Walkdowns:

  • Coordination and Facilitation: Coordinate, schedule and facilitate objective First Build Reviews to ensure transparency of design intent, design requirements, design and manufacturing risks, and manufacturability of design.
  • Engineering Walkdown Criteria: Develop and maintain engineering walkdown criteria for major product milestones to provide clear guidance to Production on engineering intent and acceptance criteria.
  • Photo Closeout Requirements: Identify photo closeout requirements for complete as-built documentation.

Evaluate and Analyze Production Quality Landscape:

  • Data-Driven Decision Making: Use data to make landscape transparent and drive project prioritization. Responsible for ensuring that issues related to product reliability are primary focus.
  • Quality Targets: Drive achievement of quality targets through a review hierarchy with appropriate levels of management.
  • Prevention of Reoccurrence: Ensure controls in place to prevent reoccurrence.

Root Cause and Corrective Action Investigations:

  • Leadership and Facilitation: Lead, facilitate, and participate in root cause investigations in their respective area.
  • Deep Dive Analysis: Deep dive using appropriate quality or analysis tools as required.
  • Documentation and Action Planning: Ensure documentation of cause and corrective action is captured appropriately. Ensure appropriate actions to prevent recurrence.

Containment:

  • Lead Containment Activities: Lead activity to support containment of all suspect product.
  • Guidance and Communication: Provide guidance to quality inspectors, techs, and shop supervisors to assist in quarantining of all suspect product. Communicate status of evaluation and disposition to production leadership on a regular basis.

Issue Ticket Review/Audit/Closure:

  • Support and Review: Support review of all issue tickets in respective area.
  • Rationale and Documentation: Ensure rationale and documentation of design deviation is captured.
  • Management of Non-Conforming Hardware: Lead and coordinate the management of non-conforming hardware.

Review of Engineering Masters (EM), Work Order (WO) Instructions and Drawings:

  • Review and Approval: Review and approve Engineering Orders (EO's), Engineering Masters (EM's), Work Orders (WO's), specifications, and product introduction and build documentation for completeness, accuracy, regulatory compliance, and quality objectives.
  • Validation of Drawing Requirements: Validate that drawing captures all requirements needed to build and inspect hardware.
  • Inspection Plans and Modification: Develop Inspection plans and modify as required for process or design changes. Ensure inspection/test criteria are objective with clear pass/fail criteria.

Production Process Audit/Improvement:

  • Assessment and Compliance: Assess new processes for safety and product risks. Ensure adherence to QMS policy and procedures within their work center.
  • Process Weakness Identification: Develop criteria and builds audits to identify process weaknesses.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor's Degree: Bachelor's degree in electrical, manufacturing, mechanical or material sciences engineering
  • Minimum 2 Years Experience: Minimum 2 years in a quality, manufacturing, or design engineering role

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Complex System Production Experience: Experience supporting production of complex electro-mechanical, mechanical, or composites systems in high volume work centers and/or during production ramp-up.
  • Quality Tools Knowledge: Knowledge of quality tools such as Lean principles, Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Metrology, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Control Plans, and various problem solving approaches.
  • Lean Approach Adoption: Dedicated to adopting a Lean approach to quality without compromising safety or reliability.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

  • Extended Work Hours: Ability to work extended hours, weekends, and offsite as required. Some travel may be required.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

  • Citizenship and Residency: To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant 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 ITAR here.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX 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.

Applicant Information:

Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX's Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resources Department at

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