Overview

In this role you will own end-to-end supplier quality for composite materials, ensuring robust manufacturing, material integrity, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement across a general supplier base. You will lead supplier qualification, process validation, and technical quality decisions, serving as the technical authority between suppliers and internal teams such as engineering, manufacturing, NDT, and program quality. You will drive process capability, risk mitigation, and supplier maturity beyond inspection, focusing on CPPs, KC, and AS9102-compliant FAIs. This position offers impact on aerospace-grade structures, enabling reliable supply chains and quality outcomes.

Responsabilidades

- Own supplier quality across development, qualification, and serial production
- Qualify and certify new composite suppliers via capability assessments, readiness reviews, and audits
- Conduct system, process, and special process audits (composite layup, curing, machining, bonding)
- Drive supplier performance with scorecards, KPIs, and improvement roadmaps
- Define and monitor Critical Process Parameters (CPPs), Key Characteristics (KCs), and process windows
- Lead First Article Inspections (FAI) and process validation per aerospace standards (AS9102)




- Identify and mitigate supplier risks using PFMEA and structured process risk assessments
- Review material certifications, Certificates of Conformance, and control plans; ensure regulatory compliance
- Provide technical oversight of NDT activities (UT, C-scan, RT, thermography) and review results
- Lead technical quality investigations into composite defects with root cause analysis and CAPA
- Act as technical quality authority for composite suppliers; advise on capabilities and material choices
- Maintain expert knowledge of prepreg layup, resin infusion/RTM, autoclave and OA curing

Requisitos principales

- Bachelors degree in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent
- 5–8+ years of experience in Supplier Quality Engineering with composites and special processes
- Solid experience with AS9100, NADCAP, supplier audits, and process qualification
- Proven ability to lead, influence, and make technical quality decisions
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

- leadership
- influence and collaboration
- problem-solving
- composite manufacturing technologies (prepreg layup, resin infusion/RTM, autoclave, out-of-autoclave curing)
- NDT oversight (UT, C-scan, RT, thermography)
- First Article Inspections (AS9102)

📌 Senior Quality Engineer – Composite Manufacturing (San Sebastián)
🏢 Isg Personalmanagement
📍 San Sebastián