Program Quality Engineer

Onsite role in Poulsbo, WA. Active and transferable U.S. government-issued Secret security clearance required on day one; U.S. citizenship is mandatory.

About the role

We are seeking a Program Quality Engineer (PQE) supporting Naval programs in Poulsbo. The PQE will ensure program goals are accomplished while staying compliant with AS9100 requirements. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including systems, electrical, mechanical, operations, supply chain, and systems integration and test—to guarantee mission goals and contractual requirements are met.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of program teams, ensuring successful program performance, deliver conforming products/services through effective collaboration and compliance with processes and procedures.
• Act as program quality liaison across customer organizations (Defense Contract Management Agency and U.S. Government), factories, and engineering labs as first responder for quality issues and concerns.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and partner with program management to define and implement quality improvement strategies.
• Support supplier quality and supplier engineering efforts to ensure compliance with the supplier quality plan.
• Lead and perform root cause analysis (RCA), facilitate corrective actions, and implement closed-loop process controls to improve product/process predictability and capability.
• Generate new Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ) projects to reduce program costs.
• Review and approve changes to the technical data package, assign actions when necessary, and complete actions in a timely manner (e.g., peer reviews, Engineering Review/Change Control Board, design reviews).
• Ensure the program meets all Quality & Mission Assurance requirements as the quality interface for customers and suppliers, coordinating with Program Quality Leads and various functions.
• Develop and monitor quality metrics to drive continuous improvement initiatives, enforcing process rigor and improving processes with integrated teams.
• Support transition-to-production activities, oversee Quality Control Plan efforts including First Article Inspections, and play a key role in Material Review Board, Change Control Board, and Risk Review Board.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) with a minimum of two (2) years of relevant experience.
• Working experience with Quality Management Systems, including ISO 9001, AS9100, and/or AS9102.
• Working experience leading teams in failure analysis, root cause analysis (RCA), corrective and preventive actions.
• Working experience interpreting technical drawings.
• Working experience with technical data package review (TDP) and document repository.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance (active and existing clearance required on day one); U.S. citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certification and/or Program Management Certification.
• Experience with Customer Oriented Results and Excellence (CORE) or another Continuous Improvement Program.
• Working experience using resources such as 5S, RCA, Process Mapping/Analysis, Lean Six Sigma (6Sigma).
• Experience with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)/AS9145 and utilizing resources such as Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Key Characteristics, Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), Production Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), and/or Control Plans.
• Experience with First Article Inspections per AS9102.
• Experience with Configuration Control Systems such as Common Product Data Management (cPDM) and/or Common As-Built System (CABS).
• Experience reviewing Statement of Work (SOW), Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCAR), and knowledge of Purchase Order Quality Requirements (Q-Notes, STAMP).
• Experience presenting, reviewing, and/or approving changes through a formal Change Control Board (CCB).
• Experience comprehending and translating system requirements and contractual requirements to ensure full compliance is flowed down through product, assembly, and test documentation.
• Strong verbal and written communication and networking skills.
• Experience working as an individual contributor and in a dynamic team environment.
• Experience working with customers, suppliers, and in a team environment.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability.
• 401(k) match.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Employee assistance program.
• Employee Scholar Program (educational assistance).
• Parental (including paternal) leave.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (eligibility dependent on role level and collective-bargaining agreement status).

Pay

The salary range for this role is $68,900 – $131,100 USD.