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Manager, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

Impulse· Manufacturing
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Redondo Beach, CA$175k - $195kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Leads Impulse Space’s non-destructive testing (NDT) program, providing technical strategy, personnel leadership, supplier oversight, and compliance with aerospace requirements. Manages NDT Engineers and Inspectors and provides technical leadership across multiple NDT methods to ensure hardware is inspected with capable, repeatable techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage the NDT organization, including engineers, inspectors, and supporting technical personnel.
  • Establish staffing plans, assign work, set priorities, develop personnel, and ensure appropriate training, qualification, and certification of NDT team members.
  • Own the strategic development and continuous improvement of Impulse Space’s NDT program across multiple inspection techniques.
  • Provide technical leadership in selecting and implementing inspection methods for aerospace hardware, including radiographic, ultrasonic, eddy current, penetrant, computed tomography, and other applicable methods.
  • Partner 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.
  • Develop, approve, and maintain NDT specifications, procedures, work instructions, training documentation, equipment requirements, and program controls.
  • Ensure NDT equipment is appropriately selected, qualified, maintained, calibrated, and capable of meeting inspection requirements.
  • Build and maintain a preferred supplier base for outsourced NDT services, including specialty techniques not available internally.
  • Establish supplier qualification, oversight, and performance-management processes for external inspection providers.
  • Review complex inspection results, support disposition and root-cause investigations, and provide technical input on nonconformances affecting flight and development hardware.
  • Drive standardization, process capability, data quality, and inspection repeatability across NDT operations.
  • Support program planning, capital-equipment decisions, budget development, facility needs, and long-term capability roadmaps.
  • Ensure the NDT program supports applicable aerospace requirements and the inspection needs of welds, COPVs, pressure vessels, structures, propulsion hardware, and other critical hardware.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related technical field and 7+ years of relevant experience.
  • ASNT Level III certification in at least one relevant NDT method.
  • Demonstrated technical expertise across multiple NDT inspection techniques, such as radiographic, ultrasonic, eddy current, penetrant, and/or computed tomography.
  • Experience developing and maintaining an NDT program in an aerospace, spaceflight, defense, aviation, or similarly high-reliability environment.
  • Experience managing, mentoring, or leading NDT Engineers, Inspectors, technicians, or equivalent technical personnel.
  • Experience developing NDT procedures, training programs, inspection requirements, and equipment-capability plans.
  • Ability to evaluate inspection needs for complex hardware and determine whether internal or outsourced inspection is appropriate.

Skills

Required:NDT leadershipASNT Level III

Benefits

  • long-term incentives, in the form of stock options
  • medical, vision & dental coverage
  • access to a 401(k) retirement plan
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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