Quality Engineer 3

About the Team

This opportunity resides with Uncrewed Systems (UxS), a business group within HII's Mission Technologies division. Uncrewed Systems comprises unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), and autonomy software. HII creates advanced unmanned solutions for defense, marine research, and commercial applications, serving customers in more than 30 countries.

Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense—the data evolution—by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. We build the world's most powerful, survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space, and cyber.

About the Role

As a Supplier Quality Engineer, you will join a supportive and welcoming environment where hard stuff is done right. You will oversee all aspects of the Quality Management System (QMS) as it applies to our Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) programs. This role is critical for ensuring that sub-contractor Statement of Work (SOW) quality requirements are defined and met, and that quality assurance and control requirements are accounted for as early in the program lifecycle as possible.

Your day will involve conducting supplier and sub-contractor audits to ensure compliant performance, drive process standardization, and eliminate waste. You will travel to supplier locations to ensure quality requirement clarity, conduct capability or quality risk assessments, and resolve quality problems. You will also travel to other HII sites to lead quality improvement initiatives and collaborate with mission partners, both across HII and external strategic partners, to ensure a robust USV quality program.

You will champion problem-solving and root cause analysis activities with suppliers and customers to eliminate the recurrence of non-conformances. By working with purchasing to ensure supplier performance is regularly reported, you will help implement appropriate and timely corrective actions. You will also develop long-term supplier relationships, generate cost reduction ideas, and strategically lead supplier performance improvement projects to increase supplier capability.

Why HII

HII is more than a job—it's an opportunity to build a new future. We are a values and ethics-driven organization that puts people's safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve, you'll find competitive benefits and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career. Together, we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.

Hiring Process

To learn more about Mission Technologies, you can view a short video on our website. We look forward to meeting you. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to buildyourcareer@hii-co.com with the nature of your request and your contact information, or call 1-844-849-8463 and press #3 for HII Mission Technologies.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.