Manufacturing, Production & Quality Engineer-Intermediate Level

Essential Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise across the program acquisition life cycle in quality, mission assurance, and manufacturing to the government for assigned MDA programs.
• Apply QMA manufacturing principles and industry best practices to program activities.
• Participate in cross‑functional teams conducting quality, mission assurance, and manufacturing evaluations and assessments for existing and developmental missile defense components. Activities include on‑site verification and auditing at developer facilities to ensure robust controls for quality assurance practices, including foreign object debris, electrostatic discharge, and contamination.
• Participate in assessments, tests, or technical interchange meetings to assess processes and practices for compliance with industry standards and MDA‑accepted quality, mission assurance, and manufacturing strategies, policies, and standards. Report results, including on‑site verification and auditing at developer facilities to ensure robust controls for quality assurance practices such as foreign object debris, electrostatic discharge, and contamination.
• Support manufacturing and test readiness activities, including production readiness reviews (PRRs), pedigree reviews, first‑article inspections (FAIs), manufacturing assistance activities, test readiness reviews (TRRs), risk working group, and the MDA four‑phase test process.
• Review data from developers and track available manufacturing metrics for MDA programs.
• Provide weekly status reports on activities and issues of concern.
• Travel periodically, approximately once per quarter.
• Location:
  
  MDA facility on Redstone Arsenal. Expect to work onsite 1‑2 days per week with transition back to full‑time onsite. Telework is authorized when onsite attendance is not required.

• Bachelor’s degree in professional engineering from an ABET‑accredited engineering school with at least five years of experience providing quality, mission assurance, and manufacturing support for systems, system elements, interfacing systems, components, devices, and/or processes for operational programs.
• Experience leading and promoting the implementation of quality, mission assurance, and manufacturing principles across the program acquisition life cycle.
• Experience working as a member of a team and assisting with solving complex problems.
• Experience implementing systems engineering and manufacturing processes throughout the program acquisition life cycle.
• Experience applying technical and scientific knowledge of the production, quality, and mission assurance disciplines.

Security clearance requirement: S.

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Preference will be given to Calista shareholders and their descendants and to spouses of Calista shareholders, and to shareholders of other corporations created pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, in accordance with Title 43 U.S. Code 1626(g).