Quality Engineer

About the role

DCS is seeking a Quality Engineer to provide critical support for our Department of War acquisition customer located in Warren, MI. The successful candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of working independently in a dynamic environment.

Essential Job Functions

• Plan, develop, implement, and manage Quality on assigned programs over the DoD acquisition lifecycle ensuring that system developer/Platform Integration and manufacturing contractors meet their responsibilities for product quality in accordance with the development/production contract requirements, and that systems fielded to Soldiers are high quality and meet user requirements.
• Oversee contractor activities to ensure that their fabrication and/or modification of vehicles adheres to design requirements and to quality standards.
• Develop Quality input for program management documents to include acquisition plans and strategies, source selection evaluation plans, supportability strategies, system engineering plans, statements of work, specifications, and product descriptions.
• Ensure appropriate contract clauses are specified in contracts.
• Coordinate with product managers, users, independent test agencies, and other Government agencies to translate operational requirements into practical system concepts and specifications.
• Review and evaluate system performance, assess risk, and make recommendations with respect to product acceptability.
• Assure compliance with contractual scope, schedules, specifications, and other requirements, and when appropriate, recommend program and contract changes.
• Develop or evaluate sampling plans based on MIL-STD-1916, ANSI Z1.4, and other appropriate industry standards.
• Participate in post-award conferences, program reviews, design reviews, and conferences as the Quality Engineer on assigned programs.
• Evaluate design efforts to ensure performance issues are identified, evaluated, and addressed.
• Review and ensure adequacy of all test plans, procedures, and reports for assigned programs, for both Government and contractor tests, as well as all failure reports.
• Monitor testing to ensure test is conducted in accordance with approved procedures, and report results to the PM.
• Ensure effective root cause identification and corrective actions are in place for all failures, as well as, adequacy of validation and implementation plans.
• Evaluate engineering change proposals and waivers/deviations for quality and perform physical and functional configuration audits.
• Prepare contract letters for Government Quality Team Lead review and COR signature for all quality related contract data.
• Maintain all quality data and metrics.
• Conduct audits of contractor quality management systems and system assembly and test procedures, to ensure contractor adherence to ISO 9001, the specification, and to all contract requirements.
• Evaluate contractor Quality data, metrics, and process controls.
• Work with contractors to improve their Quality system, processes, and implementation of process controls.
• Conduct continuing review and evaluation of system performance through review of reports, correspondence, data, collected field data, product and process audits, and observation of internal operations.
• Develop Product Assurance Suitability Statement for material release.
• Ensure Product Quality Deficiency Reports are adequately addressed and tracked.
• Work with DCMA and monitor DCMA support provided to PM programs, ensuring establishment of Quality Assurance Letters of Instruction (QALIs) and/or Memoranda of Agreement (MOA) where required, and review DCMA surveillance plans for adequacy.

Requirements

• Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
• BS in Engineering or equivalent and 8 years of relevant experience.
• Subject matter expert for Quality and the ability to lead Quality efforts on assigned programs with minimal oversight from the Government lead.
• Extensive experience with ISO 9001:2015 Quality System Requirements and Auditing.

Skills

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (desired).

Up to 20% travel may be required for this role. This role necessitates being co-located with our customer at their facility in Warren, MI on a full-time basis.