Space Program Product Assurance Position

Space Program Product Assurance Position

ARQUIMEA

Madrid, Spain

We are looking for a Space Program Product Assurance with the mission of ensuring the reliability, safety, and quality of a spacecraft program, including the mass production of satellites by implementing robust product assurance (PA) processes, compliance frameworks, and risk mitigation strategies.

Tasks to be performed:

• Quality & Reliability Assurance: Establish and enforce quality control measures throughout the entire program, including the spacecraft production lifecycle to ensure mission success and product integrity;
• Process Standardization & Industrialization: Develop and implement standardized PA processes to streamline high-volume spacecraft manufacturing while maintaining compliance/coherence with industry standards (ECSS, AS9100, NASA, ESA);
• Supplier & Subcontractor Quality Management: Oversee supplier qualification, audits, and performance evaluations to ensure adherence to quality and reliability requirements;
• Non-Conformance & Risk Management: Identify, analyse, and resolve non-conformities, implementing corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to minimize risks and ensure continuous improvement. Identifies and addresses improvement opportunities and develop root cause countermeasures;
• Material & Component Assurance: Ensure all materials, components, and subsystems meet strict space industry reliability standards, conducting screening, lot acceptance tests (LAT), and failure analysis when necessary;
• Testing & Validation Oversight: Supervise, form a product assurance point of view, spacecraft verification, including environmental testing (thermal, vibration, radiation), functional testing, and in-orbit performance validation;
• Configuration & Change Management: Supervise design and process changes, ensuring traceability and compliance with PA requirements in collaboration with the Configuration Manager and the Change Control Committee;
• Regulatory & Compliance Oversight: Ensure adherence to international space industry regulations when required and best practices in product assurance;
• Manufacturing Process Audits: Conduct internal and external audits to verify compliance with quality assurance standards and improve production efficiency;
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams to integrate PA requirements into design, production, and assembly processes.

Required skills, experience and candidate profile:

• Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field;
• Master’s Degree specialized in Quality Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or Systems Engineering is a plus;
• Relevant certifications such as AS9100 or ISO9001, Lead Auditor, Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt), or ECSS PA standards are highly desirable;
• Minimum experience of 10 years in product assurance, quality assurance, or reliability engineering in the aerospace or high-reliability manufacturing sector with at least 5 years in space sector;
• Experience with continuous quality improvement activities in a manufacturing environment;
• Experience in qualifying and auditing suppliers to ensure compliance with PA requirements;
• Experience managing incoming inspections, lot acceptance tests (LAT), and counterfeit parts prevention programs;
• Experience working in a high-throughput production environment, ideally involving the manufacture of satellite constellations, spacecraft components/equipment, or other space hardware at scale;
• Experienced in Root Cause analysis and Continuous Improvement in the spacecraft manufacturing;
• Knowledge of space industry certification and regulatory requirements from NASA, ESA, or commercial space entities;
• Hands-on experience with failure analysis, risk assessment, and non-conformance management, including tools like Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).

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