Senior Quality Engineer - Space Flight Hardware

For almost 30 years, SQA Services has been a premier leader in the provision of managed supplier quality services for audits, assessments, remote surveillance assessments, corrective actions, remediation, inspections, and engineering to manufacturers within all industries. We deliver services by deploying associates who are located throughout the United States and in 90+ countries around the world to your supplier sites. Our associates are expert quality assurance professionals with broad experience and local knowledge who can represent our clients on-demand and on-site faster than our competitors.

We are seeking a Senior Quality Engineer with expertise in inspection of Space Flight Hardware. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of experience in Quality Engineering within aerospace or manufacturing and possess the ability to independently develop and validate inspection plans and detailed work instructions.

• This is a 2+ year contract position, where you will support our client on a full-time basis on-site in Greenbelt, MD . You’ll be part of a dedicated inspection and quality engineering team, ensuring the quality of products sourced from our suppliers. Upon joining, you will be deployed to specific sites and projects based on client needs and production schedules.

• In this role, you will monitor contractor controls, and perform quality assurance activities during fabrication, integration, and tests. The extent, degree, and frequency of the actions will need to be sufficient to provide an evaluation of the contractor’s performance and physical verification of the quality status of the supplies and services.
• You will have Material Review Board (MRB) and Anomaly Review Board (ARB) voting and approval authority. You will closely engage with the contractor, participate in all associated board meetings, review all contractor-proposed MRB and ARB actions, and shall obtain concurrence from stakeholders prior to approving any MRB or ARB actions or closure.
• You will be responsible for ensuring that flight hardware and software anomalies, corrective action, and re-verification are documented in accordance with the supplier’s trouble/malfunction, failure and deficiency reporting and feedback system. You will also be responsible for ensuring early positive preventive and corrective action by advising stakeholders and listing other designees of any operations, controls, or nonconformances, which may jeopardize quality or the safeguarding of supplies and services. You will also be responsible for the satisfaction of mandatory flight hardware inspection requirements.
• You will interface as needed with on-site Government personnel, such as DCMA, to stay abreast of plant-wide and other program activities that may have potential impacts or concerns to the mission.

• Fifteen (15) or more years of experience in manufacture, assembly and/or quality assurance of space flight hardware. You should be familiar with supplier quality management operations, requirements flow-down and compliance, and performance data accumulation and analysis techniques. You should have NASA certifications (or at a minimum you will have been certified in the past) for the following:
• NASA-STD-8739.1 (Staking and Conformal Coating)
• NASA-STD-8739.2 (Surface Mount Soldering)
• NASA-STD-8739.3 (Soldering)
• NASA-STD-8739.4 (Crimping, Cables & Wiring)
• ANSI/ESD 20.20 (Electrostatic Discharge)
• NASA-STD-8719.9 (Critical Hardware Handling)
• You may have current certification to the IPC J-STD-001-ES in place of certification to NASA-STD-8739.2 (Surface Mount Soldering) and NASA-STD-8739.3 (Soldering).
• Because of the nature of the products, US Citizenship is also a requirement and background checks are required.