Chelsea Harrington
Deland,USA
Summary
Dedicated and motivated individual with 10+ years of quality, engineering, and management experience. Looking to work, primarily in engineering or quality, at a company that promotes growth, encourages pursuing continuous education, and helps expand an individual's potential to better align with the company's growth and goals.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manufacturing Engineering Manager
CACI, Inc.
11.2025 - Current
- Developed and implemented process improvements that reduced costs and enhanced efficiency.
- Managed project timelines and resources for engineering initiatives, ensuring on-time delivery and alignment with project goals.
- Facilitated communication between engineering production and management teams, enhancing collaboration and decision-making.
- Collaborated with design engineering on drawing corrections, material selection, and fit requirements to ensure design accuracy and manufacturability.
- Assessed job requirements to identify necessary materials, tools, machines, and personnel.
Supplier Quality Engineer
CACI, Inc.
08.2024 - 11.2025
- Collaborated with contract manufacturers to enhance quality and streamline processes, resulting in timely deliveries.
- Coordinated corrective action plans in response to non-conformance reports.
- Analyze non-conforming material data from production processes to determine the root cause of failures.
- Evaluated supplier quality processes and protocols for compliance with standards.
- Coached suppliers on CMM inspection programming and CNC machining programs, improving yield on complex parts.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve quality issues.
- Trained inspectors on how to inspect machined parts, flight cables, and PCBA boards.
- Collaborated with design engineering to refine drawings for manufacturability and proper standard application, ensuring accurate GD&T and tolerance stackups.
Quality Engineering Manager
Sidus Space
09.2020 - 08.2024
- Led the Quality Management System (QMS) initiatives to maintain high standards of quality across all operations.
- Enhanced quality control, business development, and manufacturing processes to drive continuous improvement.
- Oversaw a team of qualified individuals to complete quality tasks and trained Quality personnel.
- Plans, executes, documents, and reports on the results of all internal audits.
- Generate all nonconformance reports, root cause analyses, and corrective action documentation based on customer specifications and internal quality manufacturing procedures.
- Examine and authorize Manufacturing Processes Plans (MPPs) for all incoming and ongoing jobs.
- Guide the design and creation of Operational Drawings and Models for complex parts.
- Participate in Critical Design Reviews (CDR) and Production Readiness Reviews (PRR). For customer engineering and internal engineering.
- Analyze and approve engineering change proposals for engineering related to customers and internal engineering.
- Support the strategic planning of quality systems strategies and objectives with senior management.
- Coached inspection and floor personnel on interpreting technical drawings and design specifications to enhance quality assurance.
- Provided manufacturing and design assistance to align organizational goals with document configuration and work package execution, ensuring high product quality.
- Developed a training program for employees to ensure understanding and mastery of quality requirements and job responsibilities.
- Demonstrated strong knowledge and practical application of GD&T principles in design and manufacturing processes.
- Produce Acceptance Data Packages (ADP) and Technical Data Packages (TPD) in accordance with customer specifications.
Quality Manufacturing Engineer
Responsive Machining
11.2019 - 09.2020
- Generate all quality documentation following ISO9001 and AS9100 standards.
- Generated non-conformance reports, conducted root cause analysis, and developed corrective action documentation to address customer requirements and enhance quality manufacturing procedures.
- Perform to all government standards (ISO9001, ASME 14-100, ASME 14.5, AS9100, and ATF).
- Utilized GD&T principles to enhance accuracy in manufacturing processes.
- Program Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM) to verify part accuracy to the engineering drawing.
- Approve all data packages to ensure all documentation and customer specifications are met.
- Develop Manufacturing Processes Plans (MPP'S) for all incoming and existing jobs.
- Create manufacturing operational blueprints with Solidworks (CAD) to ease the manufacturing process.
- Streamlined part flow through the shop, minimizing downtime during the manufacturing process.
- Provided technical support to manufacturing floor, ensuring effective quality standards for parts and assemblies.
- Generated quotes for customers based on machineability and quality requirements.
- Designed custom tooling to enhance manufacturing processes, aiming for cost efficiency and increased production capacity.
Manufacturing Engineering Technician
Knight's Armament
04.2016 - 08.2019
- Perform setups on 4th axis horizontal and vertical, Computer Numeric Control (CNC) Machines (Mori Seki, Okuma, Haas, Mazak, and Matsuura), to produce first piece approval by the Quality Department; offer direction and guidance to shop floor personnel to continue production on given CNC machine till completion of work order quantities.
- Collaborated with shop floor personnel to troubleshoot and resolve issues with CNC machine setups, tooling, or programs, ensuring consistent production flow.
- Program parts based on engineering drawings, blueprints, and models using FeatureCam.
- Create/modify engineering models and design fixtures using SolidWorks, moreover, being proactive to redesign for more efficient techniques.
- Led process planning for product manufacturing to meet deadlines and selected optimal material stock sizes to enhance lean manufacturing initiatives.
- Assessed and implemented program changes before production with shop personnel to reduce workflow interruptions.
- Peer-Review drawings for accuracy to maintain a consistent and uninterrupted flow of product.
- Update drawings or models effectively and proficiently from Engineering Change Notices.
- Initiated Engineering Change Notifications (ECN) for design changes and redline prints.
- Develop operational drawings and models to meet specifications at the end of the manufacturing process.
- Created new parts for special projects related to motors and other departments.
- Create assemblies for new fixture concepts and special projects to assess weight, interference issues, functionality, and fit.
- Applied GD&T principles to ensure accuracy in manufacturing processes.
Education
AS - Aerospace Engineering
Eastern Florida State University
Skills
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Quality Engineering
- Design Engineering
- Supplier management
- CAD design
- Engineering change management
- Quality Control Systems
- QMS auditor
- First article inspection
- Nonconformance Reports
- Root Cause Analysis
- Corrective action
- Process planning
- Work instructions
- CMM programming
- SolidWorks design software
- Project management
- GD&T application
- Failure modes and effects analysis
Certification
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), 06/01/18
- SolidWorks - CSWA, CSWP, Advanced Weldments, Advanced Sheet Metal, Advanced Drawing Tools, 01/01/19
- Athena Leadership Training, 12/01/21
- AS9100:2016 Aerospace Lead Auditor Training, 10/01/21
- NASA-STD-8739.4 Inspector, 09/01/22
- CST for IPC-620, 12/01/22
- J-STD-001 with Space Addendum, 12/01/24
- CST for IPC-610, 06/01/25
Timeline
Manufacturing Engineering Manager
CACI, Inc.
11.2025 - Current
Supplier Quality Engineer
CACI, Inc.
08.2024 - 11.2025
Quality Engineering Manager
Sidus Space
09.2020 - 08.2024
Quality Manufacturing Engineer
Responsive Machining
11.2019 - 09.2020
Manufacturing Engineering Technician
Knight's Armament
04.2016 - 08.2019
AS - Aerospace Engineering
Eastern Florida State University