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Senior Build Reliability Engineer (Propulsion)

Impulse Space
Redondo Beach, USA
Full-time
Senior Level
Onsite
USD 140000-170000 yearly
Discovered 1 months ago

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Responsibilities

  • Identify, investigate, and eliminate build defects and failures through root cause analysis and corrective actions both within and outside of your work centers
  • Develop inspection requirements, acceptance criteria, and quality control processes aligned with hardware and mission reliability requirements. Assist in closeout inspections
  • Perform development testing to guide design decisions and characterize hardware performance
  • Provide design-for-reliability guidance during design reviews and build planning
  • Optimize MRP/ERP system modules for improved hardware trace, data collection, and overall reliability
  • Balance inspection and test with lean principles to ensure verifications are both comprehensive and streamlined
  • Develop and implement build quality metrics to heighten awareness and to improve quality landscape over time
  • Act as a specification custodian for inspection plans, storage and handling procedures, process control plans, and more
  • Own training and certification of elevated sign-off privileges for manufacturing technicians
  • Interface with supply chain to improve vendor hardware quality
  • Ensure hardware integrity by holding the line on quality standards, extreme-owning hardware containments, and driving corrective actions to completion

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
  • 5+ years of experience in hardware manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, or high-reliability systems
  • Demonstrated experience supporting production builds, integration, or test of primary structures and/or complex mechanical or electromechanical systems
  • Strong problem-solving skills with demonstrated root cause analysis experience
  • Strong theoretical and working knowledge of GD&T

Preferred Skills And Experience

  • 7+ years of demonstrated build reliability experience with spacecraft, launch vehicles, aviation, robotics, or defense hardware
  • Familiarity with AS9100, ISO 9001, or similar quality systems (practical application preferred over documentation focus)
  • Demonstrated experience with reliability engineering concepts (FMEA, reliability growth, Weibull analysis)
  • Demonstrated background working closely with technicians and production teams
  • Demonstrated experience supporting rapid development or prototype-to-production transitions
  • Technical familiarity with propulsion assembly such as valves, cryogenics, high-pressure systems, injectors, feedlines, and fluid systems

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