Manufacturing, Production & Quality Engineer-Intermediate Level

This position supports MDA/THQ FMS and is located at an MDA facility on Redstone Arsenal with an expectation to work onsite 1-2 days per week, transitioning back to full-time at the MDA facility. Otherwise, telework from home is authorized when not required to be onsite. Travel is required periodically, approximately once per quarter, and may include overseas travel to Saudi Arabia.

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.
• Perform 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 evaluate processes and practices for compliance with industry standards and MDA-accepted quality, mission assurance, and manufacturing strategies, policies, and standards. Report results.
• Support manufacturing and test readiness activities, including but not limited to:
  • Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs)
  • Pedigree reviews
  • First Article Inspections (FAIs)
  • Manufacturing assistance activities
  • Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs)
  • Risk Working Group
  • 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Professional Engineering from a school of engineering accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum.
• Minimum of 5 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 across the program acquisition life cycle.
• Experience applying technical and scientific knowledge of the production, quality, and mission assurance discipline.

Security Clearance

An active Secret security clearance is required (preference for those with Top Secret clearance).

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