Engineer - Supplier Development

Supplier Development Engineer

Location: Merritt Island, FL

Onsite Flexibility: Onsite

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 7 months
• Start: June 15, 2026
• Pay Rate: $51.95 $63.38 / Hour (USD)
• Travel Requirements: Domestic travel expected 50% of the time
• Work Authorization: Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Job Summary

As a member of the Supplier Recovery Team (SRT), you will engage strategically with suppliers who do not meet the client's key performance metrics, ensuring they adhere to cost, quality, and delivery expectations. Acting as the primary liaison, you will collaborate with internal teams including Procurement, Program IPT, Supply Chain Program Managers, and Supplier Quality teams to identify the root causes of non-performance and develop robust recovery plans. Your efforts will focus on driving continuous performance improvements within the supply chain, leveraging your expertise to enhance supplier capabilities and support the client's ambitious production goals. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Improve quality, cost, delivery, and capacity metrics across the supply chain
• Create, improve, and implement supplier quality and manufacturing processes
• Review and understand supplier issues, and recommend the appropriate actions
• Work closely with receiving, receiving inspection, supplier quality engineer, and assurance in purging suspect/non-conforming material from inventory and throughout the organization
• Oversee and be accountable for supplier audits to ensure their ability to meet part performance, delivery, and reliability expectations
• Develop, analyze, and present process metrics to encourage design for manufacturability, quality, and supply chain improvements
• Analyze and improve supplier processes for bottlenecks, yield, and rate limiters to meet throughput targets
• Manage supplier workflow and projects to ensure priorities are aligned with business needs
• Develop schedules and plans to bring up new parts and processes in the supply chain, and support supplier execution against timeline
• Lead, track, and improve supplier manufacturing process development and launch readiness for new products and design changes
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve business processes needed for receiving inspection operations, nonconforming hardware management, manufacturing and assembly, product traceability, and other critical business/production systems
• Work with leadership to develop future business models, establish road map and measures, and execute long-term strategic plan

Required Skills

• Has worked with product development teams to define, scope, and prioritize design requirements to ensure operational and manufacturing success
• Experience in hardware development and manufacturing of complex electronic assemblies
• Experience in technical management of suppliers
• Experience in implementation of DFx principles in an outsourced manufacturing environment
• Excellent Communication Skills Ability to articulate technical problems to non-subject matter experts
• Experience with fault tree analysis and value stream or process flow mapping
• Ability to learn, grow and tackle new challenges in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent attention to detail and task ownership, someone who demonstrates pride in all work and willingness to perform low-level tasks when needed
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion

Preferred Skills

• Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or similar training/experience
• Experience with capacity modeling, process mapping, and fault analysis
• Experience with packaging design, manufacturing, and qualification
• Experience in tooling bring-up, machining processes, secondary finish processes, and qualification
• Experience with Pareto analysis, root cause, and corrective actions
• Hands-on experience with metallic, plastic, composite, or electromechanical manufacturing techniques, processes, and equipment
• Has managed planning and technical aspects of product builds through the full product life cycle

Education Requirements

• B.S. Degree or higher in an engineering field required
• Master's degree in engineering or business (preferred)

Required Experience

• Open to Level II and III Engineers (please indicate on resume which level the candidate is being submitted for)

- Level II: 3 years of experience - Level III: 5 years of experience

Work Environment / Physical Requirements

• Domestic travel expected 50% of the time
• Must be willing to work long hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About the Client

Space Exploration Company We develop reusable launch vehicles and in-space systems for sustainable space exploration. Our goal is to make space accessible to all. We embrace diversity and inclusion in our workplace.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-07126 Industry: Engineering

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