Senior Quality Engineer

Location: Fort Eustis, VA
Work Arrangement: Primarily onsite
Clearance: Active Secret clearance; Interim Secret acceptable during onboarding
Travel: Up to 25%
Employment: Full-time; contingent upon contract award

Essnova is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to provide quality assurance, quality control, and configuration-management support for U.S. Army aviation engineering projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Review mechanical and electrical Technical Data Packages and drawings.
• Provide quality-assurance comments and recommendations.
• Maintain configuration control, including redlines, engineering change proposals, and design changes.
• Interface with the customer’s program-management team regarding system configuration.
• Analyze quality and configuration-management challenges and recommend improvements.
• Provide technical guidance in quality assurance, quality control, and configuration management.
• Support program-management activities and compliance with applicable technical standards.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in an engineering discipline from a school with at least one ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission-accredited curriculum. Engineering technology degrees do not qualify.
• At least three years of experience with quality management, configuration management, and program-management support.
• Active Secret clearance; Interim Secret acceptable during onboarding.
• Ability to work primarily onsite at Fort Eustis and travel up to 25%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Aviation, DoD R&D, or aircraft Technical Data Package experience.
• Mechanical or electrical drawing-review experience.
• Engineering change-control, configuration-audit, or corrective-action experience.

Proposal Requirement

Selected candidates must provide a qualification-traceable résumé and sign a Letter of Commitment confirming availability at the anticipated start of contract performance.