Engineering - Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities

• Identify root causes and associated corrective actions
• Evaluate process/product performance
• Participate/work with the engineering and production counterparts on program activities to assure processes and products are compliant to contractual requirements
• Proactive actions taken to prevent reoccurrence
• Evaluate and disposition production nonconforming hardware
• Analyze defect data to identify systemic issues and trends
• Drive Lessons learned and utilize new technologies to improve Quality operations
• Provide inputs to the Production QPM on product QA tasking, as required, to ensure sound labor estimates on ECPs and ongoing proposal efforts
• Participate in the program's hardware change control boards, as required
• Verify systems are 100% compliant to the requirements and present systems to customer representative(s) for acceptance
• Support, participate and execute strategies related to the roll-out of advanced manufacturing

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills
• AS9100 knowledge
• Proven audit experience
• Use of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Familiarity with hardware engineering requirements development and design, and system integration and test
• Good understanding of manufacturing and hardware engineering processes
• Experience with use of Statistical Process Control in a production environment

Qualifications

• 2+ Years of relevant experience and related 4 year degree
• DoD contract experience
• Leverage of Lean/Six Sigma black (or green) belt
• IPC 610/620 and J-STD-001 standards
• Experience interfacing with Government Customer Representative
• Experience with implementation of advanced manufacturing techniques i.e.; additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, lean manufacturing, Data Analytics and Computer Aided Inspection
• Experience with implementation of predictive Quality Surface-mount Technology (SMT) experience