Mission Brief
As PA Engineer - Additive Manufacturing, you provide hands-on product assurance for additively manufactured flight hardware during production, inspection and acceptance. You ensure that approved manufacturing processes, parameters and controls are consistently followed on the shop floor and that objective evidence supports compliance with mission, customer and regulatory requirements.
This role is responsible for ensuring the highest quality in the additive manufacturing process through direct production oversight. It verifies that qualified processes, materials, work instructions, inspection steps and acceptance criteria are correctly applied. You will work closely with Manufacturing, Manufacturing Engineering, NDT, Materials Laboratory, Supplier Quality and Configuration Management to keep additive production controlled, traceable and suitable for flight use.
Your Role in Our Space Mission
- Perform hands-on product assurance activities for additively manufactured flight hardware during production, inspection and acceptance.
- Provide assurance input to manufacturing readiness reviews, production reviews and acceptance boards, with a focus on executable and compliant shop-floor processes.
- Monitor additive manufacturing risks including material variability, build preparation, parameter control, post-processing, inspection and part-to-part repeatability.
- Ensure critical characteristics, acceptance criteria and verification evidence are defined and traceable to product requirements.
- Verify that approved material, machine, process and part qualificat