Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

About the role

Hermeus is a venture-backed defense aviation company focused on rapid iterative prototyping to build the fastest aircraft in the world. The role provides Quality support for the Supply Chain, working closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Subcontract Management, Program Management, and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Hermeus Quality support for Supply Chain, partnering with key stakeholders from Engineering, Manufacturing, Subcontract Management, Program Management, and various suppliers.
• Travel (~50%) to supplier sites to facilitate development activities & remedial actions, and conduct supplier audits as required.
• Provide Quality support to the Supply Chain team for the qualification and ASL‑onboarding of new suppliers.
• Support inspection of components to internal and industry standards to determine part conformity and drive the Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) process via Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs) when a nonconformance is found.
• Perform documentation review and verification of supplier certifications, specifications, and conformance to design requirements, as required or when escalated by the Incoming Inspection team.
• Approve or reject items and documents based on inspection results as required.
• Communicate with internal customers and suppliers to resolve inspection discrepancies, documentation issues, and packaging damage.
• Use electronic MES/QMS system to document issues, route parts and components and workflows to proper individuals.
• Support ongoing QMS development, continuous improvement, and lean manufacturing initiatives – developing and documenting new processes when required.
• Communicate and resolve roadblocks timely and accurately to ensure delivery and on‑time receipt status – escalating to leadership when necessary.
• Apply process improvement methodologies and tools to reduce supplier quality issues and increase production rates.

Requirements

• Must be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.62 (U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending) due to access to export‑controlled information.