Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer (QAE)

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world's most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's mission and stay ahead of tomorrow's threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedom and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Quality Assurance Engineer (QAE) to join the team at our White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), NM location. This position is an onsite role.

What You Will Do :

• Assure product quality and effectiveness throughout all life-cycle phases.
• Collaborate closely with quality, operations, supply chain, and engineering personnel.
• Ensure programs and core processes meet customer/end user objectives.
• Close quality issues through application of quality sciences and teamwork.
• Inspect test mechanisms and conducts quality assurance activities.
• Monitor and/or audits program operations or core processes.
• Grow others knowledge of quality standards, methods, and procedures.
• Proactively interact with team, management, and the customer.
• Ensure completion of required documentation, identification of nonconformance and noncompliance, resolution and closure of open issues, and ensure quality and configuration of program assets.
• Flex work across quality disciplines and provides surge capability to programs during key events.
• Assess work products to identify and eliminate in-/out- phase defects.
• Perform data analysis to drive root cause and correction action.
• Participate in test preparation and execution to ensure requirements verification.
• Review risk and opportunity data to lead projects to eliminate or reduce risks and/or realize opportunities.
• Investigate failures, participate in failure review boards, support failure investigation teams and drive root cause analysis.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardization, and agile work environments.
• Ensure compliance with ISO
  9001 and AS9100 requirements.
• Work long hours and/or weekends, when required, to meet program and mission's objectives.
• Work in a field environment.
• Travel to and work in remote sites (domestic and international) to support program requirements.
• Works in hazardous environments exposed to energized equipment, radar radiation hazards, and unexploded ordnance.

Qualifications You Must Have :

• Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of two (2) years' Quality Engineering experience.
• Working experience with industry standards such as ISO 9001, AS9100 Quality Management Systems
• 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.

Qualifications We Prefer :

• American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certification.
• Experience with Root Cause and Corrective Action processes and resources.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense development and or test programs as a quality engineer.
• Previous experience as a quality engineer in a field test environment.
• Experience with Radar Systems, Effectors (missiles, rockets, etc.), and systems-of-systems testing.
• Domain knowledge in field-testing.
• Ability to review, analyze, and ensure compliance of Technical Data Package elements to standards and guidelines.
• Ability to influence without authority, experience with cross-functional teams.
• Effective networking and presentation skills across, down, and up in a matrixed team environment.
• Working experience with missile assembly and inspection.
• Working experience with Patriot Systems and ammunition trained.

What We Offer :

• Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement, and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs.
• Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance, and child/adult backup care.