Work withcutting-edgeAI technology that helps make the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) develops market-leading counter-drone solutions used by militaryorganisations, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure operators, and law enforcementoperatingin some of the most challenging and high-stakes environments in the world. Employees work at the forefront of innovation, solving complex technical problems and delivering mission-critical capabilities where performance, reliability, and speed matter.

As an ASX200-listed company and theworld'sonly publicly listed pure-play counter-drone business, DroneShield is experiencing rapid growth. Revenue increased from A$57 million in 2024 to more than A$217 million in 2025, supported by record profitability, a global sales pipeline exceeding A$2.5 billion, and annual R&D; investment of over A$50 million.

Since 2017, DroneShield has grown from 11 employees to more than 550 globally, with operations across Australia, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, supporting customers in over 70 countries.DroneShield's Alexandria facility is a key manufacturing hub, supporting production, assembly, testing, and quality assurance of mission-critical counter-drone systems.

About the role DroneShield is seeking a highly experienced Quality Engineer to join the team in Sydney, NSW.

The Quality Engineer partners with Design Engineering, NPI, Manufacturing Engineering and Production to ensure quality, manufacturability, reliability and compliance requirements are built into products and processes from concept through to production and sustainment to meet customer, regulatory and business requirements.





The role is responsible for driving proactive quality planning, non-conformance management, manufacturing readiness and Lean continuous improvement initiatives in accordance with ISO 9001, AQAP 2110, APQP and Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) principles.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations

Product Development & NPI:

- Act as the Quality representative within product development and NPI teams, participate in design reviews and provide independent quality input.
- Ensure customer, regulatory and quality requirements are translated into product and process requirements.
- Ensure quality requirements are identified and incorporated into designs, specifications and test plans.
- Facilitate design and process risk assessments, including DFMEA and PFMEA. Support First Article Inspection (FAI) and production readiness activities.
- Support verification, validation and qualification activities.
- Develop Product Quality Plans, Control Plans and inspection requirements.
- Promote Design for X (Manufacturability, Support, Cost, etc) principles.

Manufacturing & Production Quality:

- Support the transition of products from development into production through Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) assessments.
- Participate in Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs).
- Define and validate process controls, inspection methods,



measurement requirements and objective acceptance criteria.
- Monitor production quality, yield, scrap, rework, returns and customer complaints.
- Analyse defect, yield, test, rework, scrap and reliability data to identify trends, isolate contributing factors and prioritise corrective action.

Non-Conformance Management:

- Own and coordinate the Non-Conformance Management process.
- Review, disposition and track internal, supplier and customer non-conformances.
- Facilitate Quality Clinic activities and support disposition decisions.
- Lead structured technical investigations into product, process, supplier and field failures.
- Ensure corrective actions address verified root causes and confirm effectiveness through objective evidence, follow-up data and recurrence monitoring.
- Monitor trends in non-conformances, defects, rework and escapes and report non-conformance performance metrics to management.
- Drive systemic improvements to prevent recurrence of quality issues.
- Champion Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement principles across Engineering and Production.
- Facilitate process improvement initiatives to reduce waste, variation, rework and defects.
- Support Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen activities and process optimisation projects.
- Promote a prevention-based quality culture focused on Right First Time outcomes.
- Support supplier approval, qualification and performance management activities.
- Participate in supplier audits and assessments.
- Manage supplier corrective action requests and issue resolution.
- Ensure quality requirements are effectively flowed down through procurement documentation.

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