Pdwcareers
NPI Quality Engineer
Huntsville, AL
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago
Data AnalysisSupply ChainProcess ImprovementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingLean Manufacturing
About the role
- You will join a team of operators, engineers, and builders who solve hard problems with humility and focus.
- Now, we're entering a new phase of growth and are looking for an NPI Quality Engineer to join our team.
- Working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, control plans, RCCA, and other structured quality planning and problem-solving methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Own quality deliverables for new product introductions from prototype through production ramp, ensuring each build phase meets PDW's standards for reliability, manufacturability, and mission readiness.
- Partner with Engineering and Program Management to integrate quality milestones into the NPI schedule and communicate readiness, risks, and mitigation plans to key stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain control plans, inspection criteria, and test procedures for new assemblies, production processes, and critical-to-quality characteristics.
- Support Engineering Change Requests and Engineering Change Orders (ECRs/ECOs) with clear assessment of quality, reliability, traceability, and compliance impacts.
- Lead root cause and corrective action (RCCA) investigations for prototype and pilot build issues, driving containment, corrective action, and prevention of recurrence.
- Collaborate with Design Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering to incorporate design-for-quality, design-for-manufacturing, and design-for-assembly principles into new products.
- Partner with Supplier Quality Engineering and Supply Chain to qualify new suppliers and verify that incoming materials and components meet PDW quality requirements.
- Support the transition from development to production by validating process readiness, operator training, tooling, equipment qualification, and build documentation.
- Identify and execute process improvements that improve yield, reduce rework and scrap, and strengthen product reliability across pilot and production builds.
- Core Competencies NPI execution: Demonstrated ability to support disciplined, on-time transitions from prototype to production while minimizing quality escapes.
Requirements
- Requirements Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Quality Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Proficiency with statistical process control (SPC), quality metrics, data analysis, and data-driven continuous improvement.
Nice to have
- Preferred Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher certification.
Benefits
- Must have acute vision, including close, distance, color, and peripheral vision.
- Vision testing may be required.
Company info
- Safe Harbor 401(K) with company match.
- We are building a new center of engineering excellence to design our new category of tactical robotic systems and the industrial capacity to deliver them, bringing decisive airpower into the hands of every operator.
- We are not here to make promises; we are here to deliver real systems with real capabilities for real missions.
- We design and produce multi-mission aerial systems that operators trust to perform in real-world conditions, reliably, repeatedly, and at scale.
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