Manufacturing Quality Engineer

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Manufacturing Quality Engineer to support the United States Space Force Space (USSF), Systems Command (SSC) in executing the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program. This position supports the Decatur, AL area. 

This role provides critical support across the NSSL program, deeply integrating into the manufacturing quality and readiness lifecycle of launch vehicles. Key responsibilities fall under Quality Engineering and Production Assurance, which involves ensuring supplier compliance with quality standards (e.g., AS9100), mitigating risks associated with non-conformances, Escapements, and Out of Position (OOP) work. This position is essential to Launch Vehicle Flightworthiness Certification and Surveillance by performing audits, verifying "as-built" configurations, and consolidating surveillance reports from various disciplines into a final Article readiness report.  

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Manage professional associates and be accountable for the performance and results of a team.  

• Develop and implement methods and procedures for process control, process improvement, test verification and inspection to ensure products are free of flaws and function as designed.  

• Provide quality oversight of AS9100, LE-T-014 and (AS6500) environments, including technical review of written material and assessments of conformance to policies.  

• Provide an overall analysis/evaluation of the current launch vehicle Article/Tail # by consolidating critical information and metrics from reports for each Flight Critical Item List (FCIL) discipline.  

• Identify system defect escapements, analyze root causes, and develop effective mitigation strategies. 

• Identify any anomalies that may pose a flight risk, evaluate and report mitigation results. 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, mechanical/aerospace engineering or related STEM field. 1.5 years relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of each 1 year of education/degree requirement. 
• 10+ years as a Mechanical/Aerospace engineer in relevant fields
• 3+ years of aerospace quality or manufacturing engineering experience.  

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience involving manufacture of complex products, application of manufacturing principles and methods including product design, process design, producibility, process qualification/validation, product design requirements flow down to manufacturing. 

• Exposure to Avionics, Composites, Hydraulics, Ordinance or Welding also desirable. 

• Understanding of FAR clauses, contractual requirements and Statement of Work (SOW) requirements.  

• Degree, certification, or proven experience in quality engineering, manufacturing and production programs. 

• Knowledge of Microsoft Products and AI platforms used for professional writing or data analysis. 

• Experience with Delta, Atlas, Vulcan, Falcon (or similar) launch vehicle programs highly desired. 

Security Clearance Requirements: 

• Active Secret clearance 

Physical Requirements: 

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%. 

• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer. 

• The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations.