Lead Harness Quality Engineer

The Lead Harness Quality Engineer will lead a team of harness quality engineers to define requirements and deploy processes to deliver aerospace quality at unprecedented scale. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with excellent analytical abilities, strong technical skills, effective written and verbal communication, and a passion for design quality assurance to produce high-quality, mission-critical harnesses in volume production.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the design quality assurance of electrical harnesses (including harness components and hardware, connectors, backshells, cable and wire) for power distribution, grounding, RF, communication and high-speed data signal.
• Electrical Integrity Ownership: Lead analysis and mitigation strategies for signal degradation, transient susceptibility, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) in test harnesses, flight harnesses and test systems.
• Partner with design engineering, reliability engineering and test engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle to influence harness design and interconnects to ensure electrical signal integrity.
• Serve as the go-to owner for root cause analysis (RCA) of harness anomalies.
• Own and lead Leo quality management activities for all harnesses including requirements definition, part qualification, production process validation, receiving/source inspection, CAPA, metrics reporting, and continuous improvement
• Guide product development teams on supplier selection, assessment, audit and development decisions
• Partner cross-functionally to define Leo Quality System in compliance with AS9100 & IS09001
• Scale supplier processes and quality systems to reduce defects with increasing volumes Be a subject matter expert in the disciplines of vendor process management and quality control Lead external audit teams Influence supplier selections and engineering design decisions to factor sustainable quality Influence supplier investments to reduce risk and improve quality of components Establish and monitor supplier mechanisms for verifying production processes remain in control Analyze and improve supplier quality metrics Represent Leo Supplier Quality in cross-functional initiatives Travel as needed to accomplish program objectives

Skills & Qualifications

• >5 years experience as Electrical Engineer designing wiring harness for large electrical systems
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-461, IPC/WHMA-A-620, or similar EMI and harnessing standards
• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
• Experience developing and executing PPAP
• Experience conducting supplier quality system and process audits
• Experience driving supplier RCCA
• Experience working with contract manufacturing for wiring harnesses
• Experience designing wiring systems for space environments w/ EMI Hands on experience in hardware debug and automated verification Awareness of industry standards and regulations (SAE, ISO, IPC, etc.)

Experience

• >5 years experience as Electrical Engineer designing wiring harness for large electrical systems
• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
• Experience developing and executing PPAP
• Experience conducting supplier quality system and process audits
• Experience driving supplier RCCA
• Experience working with contract manufacturing for wiring harnesses
• Experience designing wiring systems for space environments w/ EMI Hands on experience in hardware debug and automated verification

Why Join Us

• We value data driven decision making, a comfort with ambiguity across multiple simultaneous projects, an ability to earn the trust of our key stakeholders, and delivering results without sacrificing integrity.

Benefits

• Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans), EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave