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Anduril's Quality organization is seeking a Quality System Engineer  to join our team and help develop future opportunities for our internal quality management system and digitization efforts. The Quality team works with our customers, internal teams, and suppliers to ensure the deployment of reliable products that meet all mission requirements. We develop cutting-edge Quality processes and methods to secure scalable, long-term business success.  We are growing and this role will focus on internal site growth and implementing a world class quality management system software application, supporting our internal manufacturing sites, supplier sites, and our Arsenal 1 facility.  The right person for this role has extensive knowledge in Quality Management System (QMS) systems, data analysis, and continuous improvement to help shape our internal systems, tools, procedures and the culture of quality at Anduril.  If you are someone who loves to build world-class Quality processes, work hands-on, help others succeed on the quality journey, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you.

• Develop, lead, and manage the execution of the QMS and its top-level processes.  Coordinate resources and prioritization of tasks to complete internal and external audits of the QMS.
• Develop, lead, and manage the execution of the QMS software implementation and adoption across our Anduril sites.  Coordinate resources and prioritization of tasks to complete implementation, internal and external audits of the QMS.
• Partner with business system team, product quality engineers and manufacturing engineers to help prepare new processes, digital tools, & sites to meet QMS requirements, develop new capabilities to meet existing QMS requirements and conduct internal audit before manufacturing readiness review and production readiness review.
• Develop our internal QMS road map for tools and capabilities to match the scaling of the company: to meet customer needs, to enable quality capabilities for our new products, and scale quality processes as we grow the company.
• Become a systems expert for Anduril's quality tool, processes, and data sets to enable effective QMS execution.
• Communicate with external audit agencies.  Support customer audits as necessary.
• Manage the QMS internal auditor process and participate as an internal auditor.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities that benefit the QMS and product quality.
• Support investigations, initiatives, and projects as needed, at the team or organization level.
• Support developing QMS training modules and packages.  Facilitate training records and retention with manager of affected trainees.
• Driving root cause analysis and corrective action with internal findings from audits and customer visits.

• Bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of experience in aerospace and/or defense manufacturing
• Expert knowledge of QMS requirements and auditing in a complex product environment, in one or more of the following QMS standards: ISO 9001:2015, AS9100D, AS9110C, AS9120B, AS6500, IATF 16949:2016, ISO 13485:2016, TL 9000 R6.3.
• Working knowledge with QMS software solutions which might include Net Inspect, Siemens, SAP, ETQ, One Factory, MasterControl, Compliance Quest, Hexagon, PTC, QT9
• Hands on experience with data analytics platforms, reporting tools, and basic data visualization.
• Demonstrated project management for software system implementation and onboarding suppliers (external users) and internal users.
• Working knowledge of design, development, manufacturing, supply chain, deployment, contracts, and other organizations that are apart of a company wide audit
• Knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Business Intelligence (BI) systems.
• A strong ownership mindset with demonstrated capability to drive projects from start to completion.
• Proven track record of implementation and success with QMS.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.
• Expected travel up to 20% of the time.

• Certification as an AS9100 aerospace auditor / lead auditor certification
• One or more American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications: CQE, CRE, CMQ/OE, CQA
• Experience with low volume, high complex manufacturing.
• Experience working with mergers and acquisition and onboarding teams and managing/supporting remote site QMS