Manufacturing & Quality Specialist

Sabre Systems is currently recruiting a Manufacturing & Quality Specialist for the Manufacturing and Quality Engineering (M&QE) Division, in NAVAIR’s Systems Acquisition Group.  The candidate will provide manufacturing and quality expertise to the V-22 Osprey Joint Program Office (PMA-275) at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Lexington Park, MD.  NAVAIR's PMA-275 manages the cradle-to-grave procurement, development, support, fielding, and disposal of the tiltrotor program systems for the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force. A government civilian engineer lead and another government civilian engineer are currently on team. 

The selected candidate will be responsible for but not limited to:

• Provide Manufacturing & Quality Specialist support for the V-22 Osprey Joint Program Office taking directions from a senior Government Civilian M&Q engineer.
• Conduct quality research and data analysis to provide support in the establishment of M&QE requirements and management of M&QE efforts through all acquisition phases, including capacity analysis to examine for scalability.
• Examine suppliers and perform facilities evaluations assessing contractor design, development and manufacturing/quality planning activities, ensuring that production and producibility considerations are being appropriately integrated into the systems engineering process.
• Develop or review designs by extracting and analyzing a variety of engineering data and applying conventional engineering practices to develop, prepare, or recommend schematics, designs, specifications, electrical drawings and parts lists.
• Conduct tests or experiments requiring selection and adaptation or modification of a wide variety of critical test equipment and test procedures; preparing and operating equipment; recording data; and measuring and recording problems of significant complexity that sometimes require resolution at a higher level and analyzes data and prepares test reports.
• Evaluate design producibility, manufacturing planning and proposed or actual production/quality processes considering program affordability needs and with respect to established schedules and production plans.
• Prepare technical risk assessments for decision meetings and related briefings.
• Support the M&QE Division and IPT in planning and leading design, manufacturing and quality risk reduction efforts, producibility assessments and Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs).
• Provide technical support for producibility and manufacturing discussions in design reviews and program/technical meetings and provide design and process oriented technical inputs.
• Identify the causes of potential or actual manufacturing, producibility, or quality problems and recommend solutions to M&QE and IPT management via briefing or written correspondence.
• Support the M&QE lead during the conduct of Physical Configuration Audits (PCAs), Manufacturing Readiness Assessments (MRAs), Quality System Evaluations (QSEs) and other M&QE reviews. Support Systems Engineering Technical Reviews (SETR) events.
• Conduct quality research and data analysis to assist M&QE Division leadership in improving M&QE products and capabilities so that they optimally support programs and fleet readiness.

Location: Hybrid position with 10% of the work on-site at NAS Patuxent River, MD, 20% of the work will be performed at alternative sites; 70% of the work will be performed at the Contractor facility. This work is eligible for teleworking.  Active DoD SECRET security clearance is required.

Requirements:

• Technical or Scientific AS or AA degree
• ALLOWABLE SUBSTITUTION: High School diploma or GED and three (3) years of recent and relevant experience
• At least six (6) years of recent and relevant experience in a position related to the labor category description. Four (4) years of experience in installation of hardware and/or equipment. One (1) year of experience in design, preparation, and modification of engineering documents and drawings. Experience may be concurrent.
• Industrial Engineering background is desired
• Supports non-conformance requests and Product Quality Deficiency Reports
• V-22 maintenance background or Rotary Wing maintenance background highly preferred
• DCMA background would be helpful
• Manufacturing & Quality knowledge, skills and abilities
• Active DoD SECRET security clearance is required
• Must be a U.S. Citizen

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