Quality Manager

Title: Quality Manager

Segment:   Voyager Space - Technology (Space Micro)

Location:  San Diego, CA

Job Type: Full Time  - 100% Onsite

Company Description: Voyager Space is dedicated to building a better future for humanity in space and on Earth. With over 35 years of spaceflight heritage and over 2,000 successful missions, Voyager is powering the commercial space revolution. Voyager delivers exploration, technology, and defense solutions to a global customer base that includes civil and national security agencies, commercial companies, academic and research institutions, and more.

Responsibilities: 

• Reviews customer requirements and ensures that they are met
• Participates and leads closed-loop root cause and corrective action activities
• Dispositions non-conforming material
• Identify and initiate continuous improvement opportunities
• Perform purchase order reviews, planning reviews and supplier data reviews, to ensure that quality requirements are captured and flowed down
• Interface with business partners over quality related issues
• Contribute in a team environment, be flexible, and volunteer support to meet team goals
• Collaborate with program management, engineering, purchasing, production control, operations and inspection
• Maintain Quality metrics for tracking daily activities within the department
• Participate in Change Control Board (CCB) reviews
• Issues, monitors and maintains corrective action database
• Maintains accurate and current supplier quality records, such as supplier audits, certifications, corrective action responses, and database screens
• Performs receiving, in-process, source, and final inspection support to flight projects
• Administers company GIDEP system
• Administers the company calibration system
• Collects data to trend ESD, contamination levels, non-conformances and corrective actions
• Develops, implements and drafts documentation for quality related processes
• Conducts internal and supplier audits
• Supports the company in supply chain management, including source inspections, supplier surveys, supplier corrective actions, and administering the Space Micro supplier database

Requirements:

• BS degree in Quality, Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering       
• 6-10 years of quality, manufacturing, or process control experience
• Experience with PCBA manufacturing
• Knowledge of IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, and the J-STD-001 space addendum
• Quality Management Systems experience
• Proficient in MS Office products
• Proficient in the use of Google productivity products

Preferences:         

• Master’s Degree in Quality, Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, and the J-STD-001 Space Addendum Certification
• Six Sigma Certification
• ASQ Certification

Salary Range: $90,000 - $125,000

Voyager Space - Technology (Space Micro) offers a comprehensive, total compensation package, which includes competitive salary, a discretionary annual bonus plan, paid time off (PTO), a comprehensive health benefit package, retirement savings, wellness program, and various other benefits. When you join our team, you’re not just an employee; you become part of a dynamic community dedicated to innovation and excellence.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

  Voyager Space - Technology (Space Micro) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. 

Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran

The statements contained in this job description are intended to describe the general content and requirements for performance of this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities, and requirements. This job description is not an employment agreement or contract. Management has the exclusive right to alter the scope of work within the framework of this job description at any time without prior notice.