Principal Engineer, Material Review Board (R5309)
On-siteDallas, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Establish and mature the Material Review Board process for post-production hardware, fielded assemblies, and depot repairs. Lead technical dispositions for nonconforming material, damaged components, returned components, and repairable assemblies. Develop standard repair procedures, inspection criteria, and disposition guidance for recurring hardware issues. Partner with responsible engineers, design engineering, manufacturing engineering, quality, fleet support, supply chain, and chief engineers to ensure dispositions are technically sound and executable. Identify trends in nonconformances, supplier issues, manufacturing defects, field damage, and recurring hardware failures. Work with Failure Analysis, Reliability and Maintainability Engineering, and Root Cause and Corrective Action teams to resolve recurring hardware issues. Mentor engineers and cross-functional partners on MRB discipline, disposition quality, repair documentation, and sustainment repair governance.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in Material Review Board, quality engineering, manufacturing engineering, sustaining engineering, aerospace structures, aviation maintenance, hardware product support, or complex hardware sustainment
- Demonstrated experience dispositioning nonconforming hardware, damaged components, returned material, production escapes, field failures, or repairable assemblies
- Strong understanding of nonconforming material processes, MRB workflows, repair dispositions, inspection records, engineering documentation, and corrective action systems
- Experience developing or approving repair procedures, rework instructions, inspection criteria, use-as-is dispositions, repair dispositions, or scrap/replacement recommendations
- Strong technical judgment with the ability to evaluate hardware issues based on safety, structural integrity, reliability, maintainability, configuration impact, and fleet readiness
- Experience working across engineering, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, fleet support, sustainment, and operations teams to resolve hardware issues
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, inspection results, manufacturing records, repair records, and field evidence
- Strong documentation discipline, including the ability to write clear technical dispositions, repair rationale, risk assessments, and corrective action inputs
- Ability to operate independently as a principal technical IC and influence cross-functional decisions without direct authority
- Ability to balance engineering rigor, quality requirements, configuration control, field urgency, and customer support needs
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with aviation, defense, aerospace manufacturing, unmanned systems, aircraft sustainment, depot repair, field repair, or deployed hardware systems
- Experience with composite structures, metallic structures, bonded assemblies, fastened assemblies, avionics hardware, propulsion components, payload interfaces, or complex electromechanical assemblies
- Familiarity with RCCA, FRACAS, PQDR, AS9100, configuration management, ECO/ECR processes, service bulletins, maintenance releases, or field retrofit execution
- Experience supporting supplier quality investigations, production escape resolution, returned material analysis, depot repair development, or field repair governance
- Experience building scalable MRB processes, repair governance mechanisms, standard repair libraries, or sustainment disposition workflows
- Experience supporting military, government, international, or deployed aviation customers
- Familiarity with ITAR, export-controlled technical data, controlled customer environments, or defense operational support
- Active Secret or Top Secret clearance
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