Quality Engineer -IV

Overview

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. is a leading defense technology company focused on unmanned systems, satellite communications, cyber security/warfare, microwave electronics, missile defense, training, and combat systems. Our customers include the U.S. federal government, foreign governments, commercial enterprises, and state and local government agencies. At Kratos, we prioritize affordability as a cornerstone of our technology and leverage proven, cutting‑edge methodologies to minimize costs, streamline schedules, and mitigate risks, ensuring timely delivery of cost‑effective solutions to market.

The Quality Engineer will design, develop, and execute quality assurance and control systems. Using expertise and judgment, the engineer implements a wide variety of quality concepts, practices, and procedures, contributing to product and manufacturing process design, and verifying and validating product, deliverable systems, and services to ensure adherence to company/customer requirements. The engineer works toward preventing and resolving product and manufacturing process non‑conformances at KUAS.

• Design test and inspection methods to identify defects and problems within the process.
• Define robust quality and inspection plans for programs or projects under guidance.
• Interpret design documents and specifications to extract and document the quality function deliverables.
• Review qualification data for new product and production tooling.
• Facilitate first article inspections and approve related reports (FAIRs).
• Lead continuous improvement projects to eliminate scrap and reduce rework operations.
• Establish, implement, and maintain the quality management system with operations management.
• Interface with engineering design teams to drive changes for quality improvement.
• Ensure that quality considerations are documented in quality and inspection plans during design reviews.
• Lead root cause analysis and implement corrective action for process related concerns.
• Support and lead the Quality Inspectors to ensure compliance with the quality management system.
• Support Supplier Quality Engineers to report quality concerns and testing data to the supply base.
• Conduct audits, close out findings, create audit findings reports, and determine corrective and preventive actions.
• Analyze customer complaints and other quality escapes and drive corrective or preventive action.
• Maintain company quality documentation, including material, product, and system acceptance test plans.
• Track and report quality metrics to management and customers.
• Update and maintain process control plans and FMEAs.
• Coordinate assigned suppliers and verify quality standards, performing regular supplier audits to ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
• Identify technical problems with suppliers and assist with Supplier Correction Action Reports (SCAR).
• Define inspection processes using knowledge of GD&T and inspection tooling/gauging concepts.
• Review and prepare documentation to support product/system delivery, including configuration and documentation verification.
• Dispose discrepant materials as identified by internal departments or customers.
• Analyze and report on process performance with emphasis on “critical to” and “cost of” quality.
• Adhere to safety procedures.

• Work on projects of basic complexity under guidance.
• Prepare inspection plans based on drawing requirements and compare manufacturing instructions per drawing requirements.
• Review and update Nonconformance’s (NCs) based on assigned actions.

• Work on projects of medium complexity using previously established bodies of knowledge.
• Assist in defining inspection tooling using knowledge of GD&T and inspection tooling/gauging concepts.
• Lead root cause analysis efforts and develop robust corrective/preventive action plans.
• Provide oversight and guidance for NC’s, CM’s and CAPA’s.
• Manage assigned NCs and CM’s to ensure forms are complete prior to closure.
• Provide technical guidance to level I Quality Engineers and other QA staff.

• Work on projects of advanced complexity using…