Quality Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop partnerships with senior managers, IPTs, customers, and quality functions of the program team to define steps necessary to implement proactive quality strategies.
• Engage on both strategic and tactical levels, focusing on quality, cost and schedule performance, early engagement, influencing and providing differentiating quality value to program teams and customers.
• Generate new CORE (Customer Oriented Result and Excellence) and CoPQ (Cost of Poor Quality) projects to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
• Monitor and lead root cause corrective action (RCCA).
• Facilitate the completion of internal and customer‑required First Article Inspection (FAI) reviews.
• Participate in and prepare for customer, third‑party regulatory, and internal audits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience.
• Experience in aerospace, DoD, or other regulated environments.
• First article inspection experience.
• Working experience with AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• Experience leading teams in failure analysis, root cause analysis, and corrective and preventative action.
• Technical program support experience for manufacturing and/or design processes.
• Six Sigma, Lean, and/or American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications.
• Proven team player who achieves goals and strives for continuous improvement.
• Experience reviewing purchase orders, customer drawings, and corrective action requests (CAR).
• Direct interfacing experience with customers.
• Experience leading customer audits.
• Experience presenting, reviewing, and/or approving changes through a formal Change Board.
• Ability to exercise judgment and apply resolution‑making skills with appropriate supervisory intervention.
• Experience in risk mitigation and opportunity management.
• Ability to translate system and contractual requirements to ensure full compliance throughout product, assembly, and test documentation.
• Strong people skills for working with customers, suppliers, and team members.
• First Article Inspection experience per AS9102.
• Highly desired experience in one or more of the following: Six Sigma, Process Certification, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), and Product Part Approval Process (PPAP).
• Proficiency with 8D, quality tools, 5 Whys root cause analysis, and SPC analysis.
• Ability to lead cross‑functional teams and provide forecasting to meet established goals.
• Skill in assimilating, analyzing, and presenting data to leaders, customers, and peers.
• Experience interfacing with internal and external customers at all organizational levels.