Supplier Quality Engineering, Rocket Motor Systems

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About The Role

As a Supplier Quality Engineer for Rocket Motor Systems, you will serve as the dedicated quality focal for our solid rocket motor supply chain, embedded at our McHenry, Mississippi facility. This is not a commodity-aligned role — you will learn the product, hear the voice of the process and the voice of the customer, and own supplier quality outcomes for RMS from development through rate production. You are the first responder when supplier quality issues surface, with the authority to act immediately and the judgment to pull in commodity-based specialists when deeper process expertise is required.

Everything comes down to building genuine partnerships with our suppliers — getting into their facilities, bringing them into ours, and developing the mutual understanding needed to deliver rate-capable product together. If you thrive on ownership, direct supplier engagement, and building quality into a scaling defense program from the ground up, this role is for you.

What You Will Do

Serve as the dedicated supplier quality focal for Rocket Motor Systems, embedded at the McHenry facility, providing RMS engineering, manufacturing, and program teams with a single point of accountability for all supplier quality matters across the motor bill of materials. Act as the first responder for supplier quality escapes, nonconformances, and delivery disruptions, leading immediate containment and triage while determining when to engage commodity-based SQE specialists for deeper process or material expertise. Own the supplier corrective action lifecycle for RMS — from SCAR issuance through root cause verification and effectiveness confirmation — and present corrective action status, trends, and closure rates to the RMS Corrective Action Board on a monthly cadence.

Develop and maintain a supplier quality development plan aligned to each critical RMS supplier, identifying capability gaps, process maturity levels, and the specific investments needed to transition from prototype/low-rate deliveries to high-rate production readiness.

Requirements

in context. Learn the rocket motor product deeply — propellant formulation and processing, motor case fabrication, nozzle and thermal protection systems, insulation, igniters, and final assembly — so that supplier quality decisions are informed by how components behave in the system, not just whether they meet a print dimension. Partner with RMS design engineering during product development to provide design-for-manufacturability and design-for-inspectability feedback, ensuring that supplier capability and process variation are considered before drawings are released and purchase orders are placed.

Drive supplier qualification activities including First Article Inspection (AS9102), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), measurement systems analysis (MSA), and process capability studies — with a focus on validating that supplier processes are capable and stable, not just that sample parts pass inspection.