Supplier Quality Engineer

Who we are

Neros is transforming a defense industry mired in costly, behemoth machinery—to circumvent a looming vulnerability gap, to give dismounted soldiers a fighting chance against tanks, and ultimately, to get as many humans off the battlefield as possible.

While consumer technology is evolving by bounds on the smaller-cheaper-better path, U.S. defense technology wallows in the large, centralized, and wildly expensive paradigm. Our air, land, and sea machinery budget is staggering; yet these large assets can still be vulnerable to very small weapons. When swarm technology comes into its own, the asymmetry will escalate. Nowhere is the pattern more glaring than in small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS)—drones. 

What you will be doing

Join as a founding member of the Supply Chain team. To scale in relation to our exploding demand, the Supplier Quality Engineer will work directly with our Head of Supply Chain in ramping up our production and building the team to do so. This Supplier Engineer will lead procurement, planning and fulfillment, supplier development/quality and inventory. The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of aerial systems with the desire and capability to take on new challenges in unfamiliar areas to help keep soldiers off the battlefield. In addition, this individual will be responsible for:

Additionally you will:

• Collaborate with design engineers to gain an in-depth knowledge piece part, assembly, and/or sub-system design intent
• Lead procurement team to strategically source parts matched with supplier competencies by reviewing and assessing supplier manufacturing processes and quality systems.
• Function as the lead liaison between purchasing, engineering, manufacturing and suppliers to resolve supplier quality issues and to provide technical support
• Create and define supplier technical and quality requirements based on customer and program requirements and expectations for NPI and production phases
• Create and implement a production part approval process (PPAP) with selected suppliers to enable rate production
• Develop and approve process controls to control critical characteristics
• Analyze supplier quality and delivery metrics to identify trends and pinpoint systemic performance gaps and root causes to drive supplier improvement plans

You should have the following

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or a STEM discipline
• 2+ years of manufacturing, mechanical, or supply chain engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience with mechanical assemblies, materials or processes
• 1+ years of experience with PCB systems
• Proven track record of taking ownership, successfully negotiating preferred pricing and driving results
• Knowledge of supplier quality processes (production part approval process, advanced product quality planning, first article inspection reports, etc.)
• Experience with quality systems (ISO 9000/TS/AS9100/NADCAP)
• Knowledge of statistical techniques and methods, e.g., design of experiments, Six Sigma, etc.