Manufacturing Quality Engineer

MANTECH's Space Division is recruiting a highly talented , customer-oriented to support the United States Space Force Space (USSF), Systems Command (SSC) in executing the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program in the 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, and generating detailed reports on component-level quality and systemic issues. Furthermore, 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.

• Identify , document, and track non-conformances on a lot or individual component per Article.

• Define Out of Position (OOP) work that was performed and OOP work still open.

• Verify and validate that work performed out of position is in accordance with approved procedures by trained technicians.

• Validate as-built configurations against design specifications to ensure the integrity of delivered components.

• Track configuration across Articles to identify Manufacturing or Supplier changes.

• Engineering Degree majoring in Mechanical/Aerospace engineering or bachelor's degree in related STEM field (1.5 years relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of each 1 year of education/degree requirement).

• 8+ years as a Mechanical/Aerospace engineer in relevant fields

• 3 + years of aerospace quality or manufacturing engineering experience.

• 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.

• 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.

• Experience utilizing Jira for issue tracking and Confluence for collaborative knowledge sharing.

• Active Secret clearance; not required to start

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

• Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

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