Manufacturing & Quality Assurance Engineer

Overview

Manufacturing & Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

Be the Difference

Astrion offers comprehensive services that boost preparedness, optimize performance, and ensure success across various domains, from Cyber to Digital, Mission and Systems, servicing our nation's Civilian, Defense and Space communities. We support customers with Centers of Excellence in Washington DC, Huntsville, AL and Burlington, MA with an additional 36 locations across the U.S.

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Manufacturing & Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer to support the Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) program at Hanscom AFB, MA.

The SAOC program is a Major Defense Acquisition Program tasked with leading the development and delivery of the replacement fleet for the E-4B National Airborne Operations (NAOC).

WORK LOCATION: Hanscom, AFB

JOB STATUS: Full time; Salaried

Responsibilities

• Provide manufacturing and quality assurance support services for the SAOC program in compliance with AF SEAM processes for program activities including, but not limited to:
• Supporting producibility trade-off studies,
• Reviewing and analyzing production capabilities,
• Supporting the assessing process control methodologies,
• Supporting the development of specifications,
• Supporting manufacturing readiness assessments,
• Reviewing and analyzing production plans,
• Supporting the assessing statistical process control techniques,
• Supporting the conduct of factory simulations,
• Preparing or reviewing manufacturing plans and data,
• Preparing or reviewing Value Engineering Change Proposals (VECPs),
• Supporting manufacturing input to Requests for Proposals (RFPs),
• Reviewing Development/Sustainment cost proposals for adequacy of requirements and cost realism,
• Reviewing and analyzing manufacturing readiness assessments,
• Supporting FCAs/PCAs,
• Planning Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) reviews,
• Analyzing data from QA & QC reviews,
• Documenting QA & QC reviews,
• Creating / maintaining quality management systems
• Collecting manufacturing data
• Evaluating reliability, availability and maintainability

• Provide concepts and requirements analyses support services including, but not limited to reviewing and analyzing:
• Initial Capabilities Documents (ICDs),
• Capability Development Documents (CDDs),
• Capability Production Documents (CPDs),
• Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs),
• Military Utility Assessments (MUAs),
• Concepts of Operation (CONOPs),
• Technology Development Strategies
• Review and analyze system concepts and user requirements that have been approved and entered into a system requirements baseline (functional, allocated, and product).
  
  

Qualifications

• MUST have an active US Security Clearance
• Engineering degree, and 15 years of experience in manufacturing engineering and/or weapon systems development and integration.
• Prefer experience with major aircraft development/integration programs.
• Extensive experience with industrial manufacturing processes, standards and quality assurance metrics and processes.
• Prefer Progressive experience in manufacturing engineering development projects, to include engineering documentation, design drawings, engineering changes and notices, and planning/conducting design audits to enable government ownership of the program technical baseline.
  
  

What We Offer

• Competitive salaries
• Continuing education assistance
• Professional development allotment
• Multiple healthcare benefits packages
• 401K with employer matching
• Paid time off (PTO) along with a federally recognized holiday schedule
  
  

Who We Are

At Astrion, we innovate, elevate, and shape the world of tomorrow. At our core is our purpose to “Be the Difference”. This means we encourage our employees to take action and be the driving force for positive change. We foster an environment where innovative solutions flourish and our company continuously evolves.

We have a culture of care, empathy, and making a tangible difference within our organization and communities. We embrace continuous learning, growth, and innovation, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We promote collaboration and empowering our teams is at the core of our success.

Join Astrion and Be the Difference in your career and the world!

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