Senior Program Quality Engineer

About the role

The Senior Program Quality Engineer role is located in Tucson, Arizona and is an Onsite position. The role serves as a member of the Advanced Common Products Program Quality team, ensuring successful program performance and delivering conforming products/services through effective collaboration and compliance with processes and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of the Advanced Common Products Program Quality team, ensuring successful program performance, deliver conforming products/services through effective collaboration and compliance with processes and procedures.
• Closely interface with internal customers and key partners to establish effective relationships.
• Manage and impact across multiple levels of stakeholders, as it is vital to the success of this role.
• Develop and implement strategic and tactical Mission Assurance plans that will closely affect the programs' implementation and influence.
• Improve processes or systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation skills.
• Assure inclusion of quality requirements, planning, and consistency for program proposals.
• Monitor / lead root cause corrective action (RCCA) and FRACAS activities for systemic issues and to ensure extensive RCCA.
• Generate new Cost of Quality (CoQ) projects to reduce costs on the program.
• Support implementation of APQP as applicable.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience in Quality Management, Quality Assurance, Engineering and/or Manufacturing.
• Working experience with Quality Management Systems, to include ISO 9001, AS9100 and/or AS9102.
• Experience leading teams in failure and root cause analysis, corrective and preventative actions.
• Experience interpreting technical drawings.
• Working experience with technical data package review (TDP) and document repository.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certification and/or Program Management Certification.
• Experience with Customer Oriented Results and Excellence (CORE) or another Continuous Improvement Program.
• Experience with resources such as 5S, Root Cause, Process Mapping, Lean Six Sigma (6Sigma).
• Experience with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)/AS9145 and utilizing resources such as Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Key Characteristics, DFMEA, PFMEA and/or Control Plans.
• Experience in First Article Inspections per AS9102.
• Experience with Configuration Control System such as Common Product Data Management (cPDM) and/or Common As-Built System (CABS).
• Experience Reviewing Statement of Work (SOW), Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCAR), Knowledge of Purchase Order Quality Requirements (Q-Notes, STAMP).
• Experience presenting, reviewing and/or approving changes through a formal Change Control Board (CCB).
• Experience comprehending and translating system requirements as well as contractual requirements to ensure full compliance is flowed down through product, assembly, and test documentation.
• Experience working as an individual contributor and in a dynamic team environment.
• Experience working with customers, suppliers, and in a team environment.

What We Offer

• Total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement, and work/life benefits;
• career development and recognition programs.