Quality Engineer, Manna Drone Delivery
5 days a week in office ( Glasnevin, Dublin)
Drone delivery service
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Drone delivery service
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
5 days a week in office ( Glasnevin, Dublin)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To improve the world by making lightning-fast suburban deliveries affordable, green and safe.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, including GD&T
- Proficiency with standard measurement tools and techniques (calipers, micrometers, go/no-go gauges)
- Strong written communication skills — capable of producing clear, concise technical documentation and supplier correspondence
- Self-directed and comfortable working with limited supervision in a fast-moving environment
- Degree or equivalent qualification in engineering, manufacturing, or a related technical discipline
- Full Driver’s Licence
- Minimum 3 years of quality engineering experience in a manufacturing environment, with hands-on experience in incoming, in-process, and outgoing inspection
- Experience issuing and managing NCRs and driving corrective actions with external suppliers
- Experience in aerospace, drone, defence, or other regulated manufacturing sectors is a strong advantage
- Familiarity with AS9100D, ISO 9001, or similar quality management standards is desirable
- Experience with composite materials, electromechanical assemblies, or cable/harness inspection is desirable
- Knowledge of AQL sampling methodologies (ANSI/ASQ Z1.4 or equivalent) is desirable
What the job involves
- As a Quality Engineer at Manna, reporting to the Head of Quality, you will be the primary quality presence on-site — responsible for the full incoming, in-process, and outgoing quality lifecycle across our drone manufacturing operations
- You will own incoming inspection of components and materials, issue and drive resolution of nonconformance reports (NCRs), and work directly with suppliers, manufacturing, and engineering teams to investigate and eliminate quality issues at source
- The role spans hands-on inspection on the shop floor and desk-based supplier quality management, including corrective actions. You will have genuine ownership in building Manna's quality management infrastructure from the ground up
- Perform incoming inspection of all purchased components, and sub-assemblies against defined acceptance criteria, managing the physical quarantine, labelling, and disposition of incoming material through the IQC process
- Review supplier documentation (certificates of conformance, material certifications, dimensional reports) as part of incoming inspection and identify systemic incoming quality issues
- Conduct in-process inspections at defined manufacturing checkpoints, monitor process adherence, and work directly with production teams to contain and disposition in-process nonconformances
- Perform final inspection of finished products prior to shipment against applicable drawings, specifications, and acceptance test procedures, ensuring no non-conforming product is released
- Issue NCRs for all detected nonconformances — incoming, in-process, and outgoing — and manage the full NCR lifecycle from issuance through root cause analysis, corrective action, verification, and closure
- Act as the primary quality contact for the manufacturing team and component suppliers: communicate rejections with supporting evidence, review supplier root cause analyses and corrective action responses, and drive closure of issues
- Support first article inspection (FAI) activities for new or revised components and assemblies
- Maintain the NCR register and generate periodic supplier quality performance reports
- Maintain quality records in accordance with document control procedures and contribute to the development of inspection criteria, procedures, and work instructions
Our take
Manna Drone Delivery is a drone company that began operating hyper-locally in Ireland, making small deliveries in partnership with JustEat, Tescos, and a number of coffee and book shops. The service has proven popular to the tune of thousands of deliveries, and Manna is now expanding towards full rollout.
Efficient, low-emission, and high agility drones are expected to be the future of last-mile deliveries. Whilst there are some questions as to whether they’re a smart addition to built up areas, the consensus is that they will at least provide a welcome complement to other delivery vehicles. As such, getting in early with the correct technology could open up substantial doors for Manna.
The company has been expanding into the USA, with tests starting in Dallas in 2026. Though it may seem ambitious for the relatively small outfit, it's worth remembering that Alphabet’s suburban drone delivery subsidiary Wing is carrying out similar hyper-local testing in Logan, Australia. This means there’s certainly no major player emerging yet in the US - and the prime candidates are doing precisely what Manna is to get their foot in the door.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2026
$50m
SERIES B
Dec 2024
$32.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $112.9m
Company HQ
Cabra East, Dublin, Ireland
Leadership
Bobby Healy
(Founder & CEO)Has spent a period as Non Executive Director at Chill Insurance and CarTrawler, at the latter of which he also worked as CTO and Board Director. Is also currently a Board Director at DEBRA Ireland.
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