Quality Engineer

About the role

The Quality Engineer plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality of critical hardware used in defense programs and supporting global travel. This position involves direct interaction with production staff to solve problems, improve processes, and meet stringent quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide immediate support for production quality issues on the manufacturing floor.
• Troubleshoot dimensional, cosmetic, tooling, fixturing, and process-related nonconformances.
• Work directly with production machinists, setup personnel, programmers, and inspectors to resolve issues in real time.
• Support first-piece approvals, in-process inspections, and final acceptance activities.
• Assist with part over-inspections.
• Review machining processes for potential quality risks and recommend corrective actions.
• Lead and/or support root cause investigations.
• Drive containment and corrective actions to prevent recurrence of defects.
• Monitor effectiveness of corrective actions and validate sustainable improvements.
• Support customer complaint investigations and response development.
• Ensure compliance with: AS9100, Customer specifications, Internal quality procedures, and NADCAP-related requirements (where applicable).
• Aid in internal, customer, and third-party audits.
• Support maintenance and improvement of quality documentation and control plans.
• Analyze scrap, rework, and defect trends to identify improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineering and operations to improve process stability.
• Support and troubleshoot CMM, gauging, and inspection-related issues.
• Verify measurement techniques and inspection methods are effective and repeatable.
• Assist in gauge selection, validation, and MSA activities.

Requirements

• Provide immediate hands-on support for production quality issues on the manufacturing floor.
• Troubleshoot dimensional, cosmetic, tooling, fixturing, and process-related nonconformances.
• Work directly with production machinists, setup personnel, programmers, and inspectors to resolve issues in real time.
• Support first-piece approvals, in-process inspections, and final acceptance activities.
• Assist with part over-inspections.
• Review machining processes for potential quality risks and recommend corrective actions.
• Lead and/or support root cause investigations.
• Drive containment and corrective actions to prevent recurrence of defects.
• Monitor effectiveness of corrective actions and validate sustainable improvements.
• Support customer complaint investigations and response development.
• Ensure compliance with: AS9100, Customer specifications, Internal quality procedures, and NADCAP-related requirements (where applicable).
• Aid in internal, customer, and third-party audits.
• Support maintenance and improvement of quality documentation and control plans.
• Analyze scrap, rework, and defect trends to identify improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineering and operations to improve process stability.
• Support and troubleshoot CMM, gauging, and inspection-related issues.
• Verify measurement techniques and inspection methods are effective and repeatable.
• Aid in gauge selection, validation, and MSA activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, quality, or related technical field preferred.
• Previous experience in a Quality Technician or similar role may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Minimum 3–5 years in a quality functional role.
• Experience working in an AS9100-certified environment required.
• Familiarity with AS13100 compliance requirements preferred.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) preferred.
• Experience with turbine components, complex castings, or tight-tolerance machining highly preferred.
• Leverage Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma experience preferred.

Skills

• Proactive and technically strong.
• Comfortable making timely decisions in a fast-paced manufacturing environment involving tight-tolerance machined castings and complex customer requirements.

Benefits

• Quarterly profit-sharing bonus.
• Paid time off.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Tuition / professional development reimbursement.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Optional HSA with company contribution.
• Short-term disability, long term disability, and life insurance at no cost.
• Limitless opportunity for advancement.

Pay

$85,000 - $95,000 yearly salary.

Schedule

N/A