Quality Engineer (GD&T)

About the role

Location: Everett, WA 98204. Duration: 12‑month contract‑to‑hire.

Responsibilities

• Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains quality evaluation, control systems and protocols.
• Provides analysis and explanations of testing and inspection plans, methods and technologies to assure reliability and conformance of products and processes.
• Analyzes and makes recommendations for corrective actions for nonconformities and/or design problems for internally produced products & processes.
• Utilizes PPAP core elements (e.g. PFMEA, MSA, Process Flow and Control Plans, etc.) to identify and make recommendations for managing risk in product development.
• Reviews process control documentation to ensure it is in compliance with requirements, objectives, and/or contracts.
• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality evaluation, control systems and protocols for materials being processed into partially finished or finished products.
• Working with product design and specification, devises testing plans, methods and equipment to assure reliability of product.
• Collaborates internally to ensure quality standards are in effect.
• Ensures that projects and process control documentation are compliant with requirements, objectives and/or contracts.
• Develops proactive quality initiative strategies and drives their implementation.
• Performs Escape management procedures, root cause analysis, and recommends corrective action for design problems for internally produced products & processes.
• Ensures all requirements are met for process change management.
• Implements product engineering changes to satisfy quality issues raised by customers.
• Responsible for both Program and Product Quality Engineering.

Requirements

• 1+ years engineering support in manufacturing environment.
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field or in absence of a degree, 6 years of relevant experience.
• Citizenship: US Citizens or Permanent residents.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Lean or Six Sigma certification.
• GD&T knowledge.
• APQP/PPAP awareness.
• MRB experience is a plus.

Skills

• PPAP core elements (PFMEA, MSA, Process Flow and Control Plans).
• Statistical process control (SPC).
• Root cause analysis and corrective action (CAPA).
• Escape management.
• Process change management.
• Product engineering changes implementation.

Pay

$58.70 per hour on W2.

Schedule

Monday‑Friday, 7 am – 4 pm; occasional weekend work may be required and can be mandatory based on business needs.