Manager, Product Quality Engineering - Anvil

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Tactical Effects (TFX), as part of Tactical Reconnaissance & Strike (TRS) team, is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Man-packable portable systems to expeditionary multi-mission to mass counter UAS defense and strike. We work to clearly understand customer requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers' most pressing national security requirements.

ABOUT THE JOB

As the Manager of Product Quality Engineering for Anvil , you will lead a team of product quality engineers and quality specialists who will work inside and outside the organization to define, develop, and execute processes that deliver high quality and reliable products. Your leadership will impact how Anduril delivers production quality and sustaining support for Anvil across its lifecycle. You will build partnerships with heads of production, manufacturing engineering, program management, deployments, sourcing and multiple engineering teams. The right person for this role has knowledge of manufacturing, product development, sub-system performance criteria and metrology, and leadership experience to contribute to Anduril's mission.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Develop close collaboration with Product, Engineering, Test, and Supply Chain leadership teams and execute to Product Development Process (PDP) to meet all gate readiness review criteria (CDR, BRR, MRR/PRR) engaging from early prototype testing to full rate production.

• Be the voice and leader for product development, production quality, supplier quality, and all the functions that contribute to an efficient and effective NPI/production process and delivery of Anvil to Anduril customers.

• Lead and manage a team to champion continuous improvement and failure mode elimination in the development and production phases, driving part and system level quality readiness for production scaling, and supporting customer / deployment quality issues.

• Own and utilize Supplier Quality Engineering resources to own and track supplier quality control and development program for Anvil as well as supplier part qualification and risk management programs.

• Own and lead Quality Control process, framework, and execution starting from detailed engineering requirements and risks all the way to managing inspection methods and tooling by collaborating with systems design partners and providing leadership and prioritization to quality control teams.

• Set daily and weekly priorities for the quality teams and establish culture of best-in-class product quality by driving the adoption and consistent use of quality tools and processes.

• Drive production readiness by detailed design reviews, process development, verification/validation, and qualification of processes and parts, sub-assembly, and system deployments.

• Drive clarity and resolution for performance ambiguities associated with product maturity, process stability, and field performance that impact Anvil meeting its quality and reliability goals for production.

• Drive ongoing quality performance for incoming quality control, in-process quality control, and end of line quality.

• Own the elimination of product risk by reducing process contribution to quality and reliability across the product lifecycle.

• Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA), Non-Conformance Reviews (NCRs), Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA), and Material Review Board (MRB) activities. Review the effectiveness of actions and share lessons learned across the product team.

• Own and lead cross functional alignment within Corrective Action Board (CAB) activities to drive ownership to investigations and resolutions of quality issues regarding design, integration, process, and supply chain.

• Lead product health data analysis and improvement activities. Establish metrics for measuring quality and the factors that predict quality performance. Drive performance when out of goal/out of specification conditions occur.

• Support the continuous improvement of the Quality Management System needed to support the process and product. Define and improve required documentation and activities.

• Develop strategies and resource plans with heads of production, program management, deployments, sourcing and chief engineers and architects to meet customer and product requirements.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in a technical Engineering discipline

• Minimum 5+ years of experience leading organizations including teams of direct report engineers to address NPI and production execution and quality issues that impact delivery or product quality at our customer

• Minimum total of 10+ combined years of experience working in technical/engineering disciplines related to product quality/engineering as an individual contributor engineer or working engineering manager

• Working knowledge of design review and quality management of PCBA, harnessing, mechanical structures, systems integration, power/battery systems, radar, vision system/optical image capture, networking/communication protocol, and remote management systems

• Experience driving product quality and performance requirements to test and measurement system development and optimization. Leading the transition from engineering qualification to manufacturing variance testing for product quality coverage.

• Working knowledge of product development methodologies such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Inspection and measurement systems, Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) elements such as Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), Gauge Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R), Statistical Process Control (SPC), and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)

• Working knowledge of precision mechanicals, composites, motors, and/or PCBA and Cable harnessing manufacturing processes

• Ability to read and drive clarity for technical drawings, requirements, Quality Clauses, and SOWs used to describe quality requirements

• Working knowledge of Manufacturing Execution systems, Configuration Management and Document Control/Data Management

• An extreme ownership mindset with demonstrated capability to drive projects from start to completion

• Analytical skills and experiences for data mining, data quality, metrics generation, issue management systems, and statistical analysis tools (MatLab, JMP, MiniTab, etc)

• Eligible to obtain and/or maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters degree in a technical engineering discipline

• Contractual knowledge in ITAR and EAR applications regarding product technicalities

• Experience in design/integration/test of sensors/cameras/gimbals

• Experience recruiting, hiring, and developing a team of engineers and specialists

• 8+ years of experience with developing quality systems for high volume, high complexity manufacturing environments

• Working knowledge of AS9100 / ISO 9001-based Quality Management System requirements

• Experience with IPC standards, mastery of ESD and FOD prevention and mitigation programs

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