Quality Specialist, Rocket Motor Systems

Quality Specialist, Rocket Motor Systems

McHenry, Mississippi, United States

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center.

As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

As a Quality Specialist for Rocket Motor Systems, you will be the boots on the ground at our McHenry, Mississippi facility -- the quality team's daily presence on the production floor. You will work alongside manufacturing operations to ensure that solid rocket motor hardware is built right, inspected right, and that when something goes wrong, it is contained and corrected before it moves downstream.

This role combines hands-on inspection, internal auditing, nonconformance management, and the situational awareness to identify safety and quality risks proactively in an energetics manufacturing environment. You are not sitting at a desk reviewing reports -- you are walking the floor, watching the process, talking to operators, and making sure the quality system works where it matters most: at the point of manufacture.

If you are someone who takes pride in catching problems early, keeping a production floor disciplined, and being the person the team turns to when something doesn't look right, this role is for you.

• Provide daily shop floor quality support to manufacturing operations, serving as the accessible, on-the-ground quality resource for operators, technicians, and production supervisors -- answering questions, clarifying work instruction requirements, and helping resolve quality issues in real time before they become escapes.
• Manage product containment activities when nonconforming material or process deviations are identified, ensuring suspect product is physically segregated, clearly identified, and controlled until disposition is complete -- preventing nonconforming hardware from advancing through subsequent manufacturing operations.
• Conduct internal process audits across RMS manufacturing operations, verifying that production activities conform to work instructions, manufacturing planning, quality procedures, and AS9100 requirements -- documenting findings and tracking corrective actions through to closure.
• Perform in-process and final inspection sampling on solid rocket motor components and assemblies using calibrated measurement equipment, verifying conformance to engineering drawings, GD&T requirements, and acceptance criteria at critical manufacturing checkpoints.
• Monitor the shop floor for safety and quality risks that can be proactively mitigated, including FOD (foreign object debris) control, electrostatic discharge (ESD) compliance, propellant and energetic material handling practices, cleanliness and contamination controls, and environmental condition requirements -- escalating concerns before they result in product impact or personnel hazard.
• Support the Material Review Board (MRB) process by documenting nonconformances, gathering objective evidence, and assisting quality engineers with root cause investigation -- ensuring MRB records are accurate, complete, and closed in a timely manner.
• Manage internal rework activities resulting from MRB dispositions, coordinating with manufacturing to ensure rework instructions are clearly communicated, properly executed, and re-inspected to verify conformance before releasing hardware back into the production flow.
• Maintain nonconformance and containment data with accuracy and discipline, ensuring that defect types, quantities, locations, and dispositions are recorded in the quality management system and available for trend analysis, corrective action prioritization, and management reporting.
• Support First Article Inspection (FAI) execution per AS9102 requirements for new or revised RMS hardware, coordinating dimensional data collection, material certifications, and process documentation to complete FAI packages.
• Assist in developing and refining inspection plans for incoming material, in-process verification steps, and end-of-line acceptance criteria, working under the direction of RMS quality engineers to ensure inspection methods are practical, repeatable, and aligned with critical-to-quality characteristics.
• Train production operators and technicians on quality expectations, inspection techniques, proper use of measurement equipment, and the importance of accurate data capture at the point of manufacture -- building quality awareness into the…