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This role manages NDT Engineers and Inspectors while providing technical leadership across multiple NDT methods to ensure hardware is inspected using appropriate, capable, and repeatable techniques.\nResponsibilities\nLead and manage the NDT organization, including engineers, inspectors, and supporting technical personnel.\nEstablish staffing plans, assign work, set priorities, develop personnel, and ensure appropriate training, qualification, and certification of NDT team members.\nOwn the strategic development and continuous improvement of Impulse Space’s NDT program across multiple inspection techniques.\nProvide technical leadership in selecting and implementing inspection methods for aerospace hardware, including radiographic, ultrasonic, eddy current, penetrant, computed tomography, and other applicable methods.\nPartner with Design, Manufacturing, Quality, and Materials Engineering to determine inspection requirements, acceptance approaches, and whether inspection should be performed internally or by qualified external suppliers.\nDevelop, approve, and maintain NDT specifications, procedures, work instructions, training documentation, equipment requirements, and program controls.\nEnsure NDT equipment is appropriately selected, qualified, maintained, calibrated, and capable of meeting inspection requirements.\nBuild and maintain a preferred supplier base for outsourced NDT services, including specialty techniques not available internally.\nEstablish supplier qualification, oversight, and performance-management processes for external inspection providers.\nReview complex inspection results, support disposition and root-cause investigations, and provide technical input on nonconformances affecting flight and development hardware.\nDrive standardization, process capability, data quality, and inspection repeatability across NDT operations.\nSupport program planning, capital-equipment decisions, budget development, facility needs, and long-term capability roadmaps.\nEnsure the NDT program supports applicable aerospace requirements and the inspection needs of welds, COPVs, pressure vessels, structures, propulsion hardware, and other critical hardware.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related technical field and 7+ years of relevant experience.\nASNT Level III certification in at least one relevant NDT method.\nDemonstrated technical expertise across multiple NDT inspection techniques, such as radiographic, ultrasonic, eddy current, penetrant, and/or computed tomography.\nExperience developing and maintaining an NDT program in an aerospace, spaceflight, defense, aviation, or similarly high-reliability environment.\nExperience managing, mentoring, or leading NDT Engineers, Inspectors, technicians, or equivalent technical personnel.\nExperience developing NDT procedures, training programs, inspection requirements, and equipment-capability plans.\nAbility to evaluate inspection needs for complex hardware and determine whether internal or outsourced inspection is appropriate.\nPreferred Skills and Experience\nAdvanced degree in a related field.\nASNT Level III certifications in multiple relevant inspection methods.\nDemonstrated experience leading a multi-method NDT organization, including Engineers and Inspectors.\nDemonstrated experience building or scaling internal NDT capabilities for aerospace flight hardware.\nDemonstrated experience specifically with AWS D17.1 Class A welds and AIAA S-081B Pressure Vessels.\n\nAdditional Information:\nCompensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.\nImpulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. 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