Quality Engineering Manager II

In office

Sparks, NV

Full time

R0031036

The Quality Engineering Manager II provides technical and managerial leadership across multiple programs or a larger QE team. Owns quality execution strategies, champions process improvements, and interfaces regularly with customer quality representatives, program leadership, and cross-functional partners.

The Mission Solutions and Technologies (MST) business area provides affordable, turn-key command/control, communications, integrated ISR, force protection and security solutions worldwide. The MST team has a long legacy of supporting the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, commercial and international customers with years of experience in platform operations, engineering and full lifecycle management across domains – air, land, sea, space and cyber.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Quality Engineers, building a proactive, data-driven engineering culture that moves beyond reactive, execution-only support.

• Establish Quality Engineering as an early partner in the design process. This includes design and drawing reviews, DFMEA, design-for-manufacturability/test input, and key characteristic identification before release to production.

• Own product and program quality deliverables, including first article inspection, PFMEA, control plans, acceptance data packages, and build readiness, to meet program schedules and customer requirements.

• Drive root cause and corrective action for nonconformances, test failures, and customer escapes. Lead MRB dispositions and verify that corrective actions are effective and sustained.

• Analyze yield, defect, test, and supplier performance data using SPC and capability analysis. Use it to set and report quality metrics, reduce cost of poor quality, and guide engineering decisions.

• Serve as a primary quality point of contact for program leadership and customer or government quality representatives. Manage product acceptance, deviations/waivers, and customer notifications.

• Partner with Manufacturing, Design/Systems Engineering, Test, and Supply Chain to resolve electronics assembly, integration, and test issues. Support supplier quality engineers on supplier issues that affect program deliverables.

• Define the QE team's strategic roadmap and resourcing across programs, including skills development, workload balance, and succession planning.

• Champion continuous improvement, including lean and Six Sigma projects, error-proofing, and test and inspection strategy improvements. Challenge legacy practices where better approaches exist.

• Coordinate with the QMS and Audit teams to keep product and program execution aligned with AS9100 and contractual flow-down requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.

• 9+ years of quality engineering experience, including 2+ years of leadership.

• Relevant experience can be considered as a substitute for the required educational qualifications. In the absence of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of related experience is required.

• Higher level relevant degree may substitute for experience.

• Knowledge and utilization of AS9100, ISO 9001, and other applicable standards.

• Proficiency in statistical analysis and quality management systems (QMS).

• Strong leadership and project management skills.

• Demonstrated quality engineering experience in electronics manufacturing, such as PCBA, cable/wire harness, or box-level assembly and test.

• Hands‑on experience with core QE methods: FMEA (design and process), control plans, first article inspection (AS9102 or equivalent), and root cause and corrective action (8D or equivalent).

• Experience with nonconformance management and MRB, including disposition decisions and customer or supplier communication.

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