Quality Engineer - Production

About the role

Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments. We are a Technology firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems. Fuse is looking for a dynamic, detail-oriented Quality Engineer to join our energetic and growing team! This is an opportunity to work closely with Quality Management providing reliable reports and process improvement recommendations to monitor and improve overall product quality. In this role, you will support the company's full business quality management system and production team. Fuse is an innovative, design-driven environment that delivers elegant engineering solutions. Must be a nimble self-starter who is excited about technology and has the ability to think out of the box and suggest powerful new ideas. Fuse values a creative and dynamic work environment - if this sounds good to you, then we are looking forward to hearing from you!

Responsibilities

• Provide daily quality engineering support to production and manufacturing teams, resolving quality issues and minimizing disruption to production schedules
• Monitor production processes to ensure products meet engineering specifications, drawings, work instructions, and quality requirements
• Investigate and disposition production nonconformances, defects, and material issues, including containment and root cause analysis
• Support Material Review Board (MRB) activities and coordinate disposition of nonconforming material
• Support supplier quality issues, including supplier rejections, incoming material nonconformances, SCARs, and supplier corrective actions
• Support implementation of inspection plans, control plans, process controls, and sampling plans
• Assist with process audits, product audits, and internal QMS audits, including identification and closure of audit findings
• Ensure production quality records are accurate, complete, traceable, and maintained in accordance with QMS and AS9100/ISO requirements
• Escalate significant quality issues and provide leadership with clear communication regarding production impact, containment status, root cause, and corrective-action progress

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or High school diploma with relevant experience
• 3-5 years experience as a Quality Engineer or Technician in an assembly environment
• Solid judgment to proactively identify and solve complex problems
• Hands on experience with reading engineering drawings and interpreting technical information to include GD&T tolerancing
• Experience with collecting data for generating quality reports
• Strong attention to detail, good organizational skills, and the ability to prioritize in changing situations
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across departments and with supervisors and managers
• Active secret clearance or ability to obtain a clearance
• US Citizen

Qualifications

If you meet some requirements of this position but not 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you'd be a great fit for this role based on your specific characteristics that align with our values and goals

Skills

• Understanding of electronic circuitry
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics ERP
• ASQ Certification (Engineer or Auditor)
• Experience with ISO 9001 and AS9100

Pay

Salary Range: $85,000 - $105,000

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Employee coverage is fully funded; a portion of dependents' coverage is funded as well
• 11 paid Federal Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Date of hire through second year: 10 days/year (accrued)
• After two years: unlimited
• 40 hours of paid sick leave per year
• 401k with employer matching
• Annual bonuses
• Cell phone reimbursement: $100/month