Project Quality Engineer
Moog · Chatsworth, CA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $95k–$135k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 50+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at Moog (aerospace & defense) in Chatsworth, CA. Lead, Product Assurance (CHT).
- They ask for
- 50+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, SPC, GD&T, Minitab, ISO 9001, AS9100
- Base pay
- $95k–$135k
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About the role
requirements
for mission-critical hardware.
- ✓Experience applying statistical methods and data analysis tools such as Minitab, JMP, SPC
- ✓software, or equivalent analytical tools.
- ✓Experience collaborating with customers and government representatives, including DCMA.
- ✓Experience reviewing and implementing customer contractual quality
requirements
and aerospace quality clauses.
- ✓Must have the ability to obtain U.S. Security Clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓8-12 years’ experience.
- ✓Experience supporting the design, manufacture, assembly, testing, or verification of spaceflight hardware.
- ✓DCMA interaction.
- ✓Experience applying advanced statistical methods, process capability analysis, regression analysis, and statistical process control techniques.
- ✓Configuration management experience.
- ✓Experience supporting precision electromechanical assemblies, mechanisms, actuators, bearings, motors, sensors, or other high-reliability flight hardware is strongly preferred.
- ✓ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) or other relevant quality certification.
- ✓Experience supporting spaceflight, military, or other mission-critical hardware programs.
- ✓Experience with customer source inspection and government oversight activities.
- ✓Familiarity with IPC J-STD-001, NASA workmanship standards, or related aerospace workmanship requirements.
- ✓Familiarity with aerospace special process controls, including soldering, welding, cleaning, coating, heat treat, plating, bonding, and related Nadcap-controlled processes.
- ✓Experience supporting environmental tests, qualification test, and failure analysis activities.
requirements
and ensure appropriate implementation and flow-down throughout the product lifecycle.
- ✓Develop and execute program quality and mission assurance plans, including surveillance, compliance verification, and risk mitigation strategies.
- ✓Participate in proposal, contract, requirements, design, qualification, milestone, gate, and engineering change reviews to ensure quality
requirements
and risks are appropriately addressed.
- ✓Assess and communicate quality risks affecting product integrity, reliability, safety, mission success, or contractual compliance.
- ✓Monitor program quality performance and communicate significant risks, trends, and issues to program leadership and customers, as appropriate.
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Moog is a performance culture that empowers people to achieve great things. Our people enjoy solving interesting technical challenges in a culture where everyone trusts each other to do the right thing. For you, working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work.
Job Title
Project Quality Engineer
Reporting To
Lead, Product Assurance (CHT)
Work Schedule
Onsite – Chatsworth, CA Moog is seeking a Project Quality Engineer to support quality processes that ensure our products meet or exceed customer and contractual requirements. In this role, you will help ensure product integrity and contribute to the delivery of mission-critical spacecraft hardware. You will report to the Quality Manager and work onsite at our Chatsworth, California facility.
Why Join Moog?
Our spacecraft mechanisms operate in mission-critical environments where quality, reliability, and traceability are paramount. As Project Quality Engineer, you will help ensure these products meet the rigorous standards required for successful space missions.
About Moog Space and Defense
Moog Space and Defense Group, Chatsworth Operations (MCO), designs and manufactures precision motion-control mechanisms for spacecraft applications. With more than 50 years of flight heritage spanning historic and current satellite programs, MCO delivers proven spacecraft mechanism solutions for some of the industry's most demanding missions.
T o be considered for the Project Quality Engineer, here’s what you’ll need to bring with you:
- •Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related STEM discipline and 3 years of quality engineering experience in a regulated manufacturing environment
- •Experience in aerospace, defense, spacecraft, or high-reliability manufacturing environments.
- •Experience serving as a quality interface with customers, suppliers, and government representatives.
- •Demonstrated ability to communicate quality risks, technical concerns, and compliance issues effectively to manufacturing, engineering, program management, customers, and executive leadership.
- •Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, GD&T requirements, manufacturing plans, and acceptance test documentation.
- •Proficiency in AS9100D, AS9102, AS9145, ISO9001 or similar.
- •Experience with RCCA methodologies including 8D, Fishbone, Fault Tree Analysis, and 5-Why.
- •Experience supporting reliability analyses, failure investigations, environmental testing, qualification testing, or life-test programs for aerospace hardware.
- •Experience supporting MRB and nonconformance investigations.
- •Familiarity with configuration management and traceability
Program Quality & Mission Assurance
- •Serve as the primary Quality Engineering representative for assigned programs and Integrated Product Teams (IPTs).
- •Interpret customer, contractual, regulatory, and internal quality
Product & Manufacturing Quality
- •Provide Quality Engineering support throughout manufacturing, assembly, test, and delivery to ensure compliance with engineering, contractual, workmanship, and quality requirements.
- •Review manufacturing and test planning, work instructions, travelers, quality records, and End Item Data Packages for compliance and completeness.
- •Participate in Material Review Board (MRB) activities, independently assessing nonconformances, product risk, and disposition recommendations.
- •Support First Article Inspection (AS9102), product traceability, configurati