Program Quality Engineer

About Barber-Nichols:Barber-Nichols (BN) is a premier provider of custom turbomachinery solutions serving the Defense, Aerospace, Cryogenics, and Energy industries. Our team consists of industry leaders who collaborate closely with equally accomplished customers to deliver technologies that advance their markets and establish enduring partnerships. At BN, we foster a results-driven environment that values professional growth, rewards achievement, and supports innovation. From designing the blower for NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan to engineering critical components for the U.S. Navy’s MK-48 program, BN’s portfolio spans some of the most exciting and impactful projects in the world. For those seeking to contribute to impactful projects alongside a highly skilled team, BN offers an exceptional place to build your career. Position Summary:The Program Quality Engineer oversees program quality and provides support to various functional departments including Manufacturing, Engineering, Procurement, Program Management and Sales as needed to ensure product quality and continual improvement as well as addressing cost, competitiveness and customer expectations. Duties and Responsibilities:Oversee product programs to ensure quality and contractual requirements are met.Review and understand contract requirements and properly create flow down requirements internally and to suppliers.Support engineered product programs from design through production.Support contract manufactured product and programs through production.Review contract related purchase orders to ensure contract requirements are captured and communicated to suppliers.Manage and coordinate customer source inspections.Support customer audits by providing objective quality evidence of compliance.Review production route cards to ensure proper quality, customer, and applicable hold points are in place.Review drawings and provide input to production for proper route card creation of parts, subassemblies, and top-level assemblies to ensure contract requirements are met.Support customer meetings as company quality representative.Support required customer documentation throughout the program.Create Certification of Conformance and data packages based on contract requirements.Review, assess and manage as built conditions and reports to meet customer contract requirement.Monitor, assess, and improve design and program quality, in-process production, inspection, and assembly performance to ensure program requirements are maintained.Monitor in-process assembly and test to ensure proper execution per program requirement.Review applicable test results to ensure results of the test are compliant with customer requirements.Review inspection plans prior to incoming and in-process quality control inspection.Coordinate incoming inspection per contract and internal requirements.Review certification and data package on incoming material and assemblies if applicable.Document the defect/out of specification condition to Material Review Board for review and disposition determination.Plan for improvement which considers product safety and compliance to support countermeasures and corrective actions.Oversee implementation of countermeasures and corrective/preventive actions as necessary in support of improvements.Perform internal process audits to confirm process and contract complianceContinuously improve procedures, processes and methods to ensure quality with zero defects and/or escapes, which are measured by completion of predetermined improvement initiatives.Identify areas for improvement in process and product relating to quality and contract requirements and elevate them to Management Team.Assist continuous improvement teams to help drive company-wide improvements.Review company drawings and identify manufacturability, inspect ability, contract compliance and process improvements.Develop, monitor, and update data requires for internal BN and customer communications.