Senior Quality Engineer IActive$95K

Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine.

What you'll do

• Develop and execute inspection methods to verify product quality and workmanship

• Ensure products comply with internal procedures, customer requirements, and industry standards such as AS9100

• Investigate products and process nonconformances and lead root cause analysis and corrective actions

• Generate, manage, and close Nonconformance Reports (NCRs), Corrective Action: Reports, and support MRB/FRB activities

• Provide quality training and guidance to production and engineering teams on: workmanship standards, procedures, ESD, and FOD

• Coordinate and document calibration activities and maintain metrology controls

What they're looking for

• Support and maintain compliance with ESD and FOD programs across production and integration areas
• Perform inspections, review inspection data, and document results and findings
• Collect, analyze, and trend quality data using digital tools such as Power: Apps and Power BI to support data-driven decision making
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to monitor quality metrics,: nonconformance trends, corrective action effectiveness, and process performance