Specialist, Quality Engineer

Job Title

Specialist, Quality Engineer

37862

Camden, NJ

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This role serves as the program quality focal point responsible for ensuring product and process compliance, managing nonconformance resolution, driving root cause and corrective action activities, and partnering cross-functionally to deliver high-reliability products to naval and defense customers.

• Implement IMS policies, procedures and standards for Quality Management, driving a preventive, zero defect culture and ensuring compliance with engineering drawings, specifications, customer requirements, and contractual obligations.
• Analyze defect data, nonconformance trends, and quality metrics to identify systemic issues and drive data‑driven corrective and preventive actions.
• Drive continuous improvement of the quality system and manufacturing processes to improve product quality and reduce defect trends.
• Present corrective actions, investigation results, and process improvements to internal stakeholders and external customers when required.
• Review, interpret, and ensure compliance to company policies and procedures, engineering drawings, customer contract requirements, and product test procedures.
• Mentor and train early career professionals within the team on quality processes, systems, and problem‑solving tools.
• Lead containment efforts for non‑conforming material and support investigation and resolution activities.
• Serve as the Quality Engineering focal point for assigned programs and interface across Engineering, Manufacturing, Test, Operations, and Program Management.
• Revise and improve manufacturing work instructions resulting in measurable impact.
• Perform internal audits of assigned programs, and support in the preparation for and execution of external audits.
• Partner with Supplier Quality to ensure applicable requirements are flowed down to subcontractors and managed appropriately.
• Generate reports and analyze program quality performance data, and drive actions to improve site key process indicators.
• Perform other Quality Engineering tasks as required to support Maritime Power Systems, Camden.
• Manage the lifecycle of non‑conforming material including investigation coordination, disposition review, and closure within enterprise quality systems (e.g., TipQA, Agile, or equivalent).
• Lead or support root cause investigations and corrective action activities using structured problem‑solving tools such as 8D, 5‑Why, Fishbone, or FMEA.

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. Associate’s Degree and a minimum of 8 years of prior experience.
• Or in lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior Quality Engineer experience.
• Experience in operations and/or quality.
• AS9100/ISO
  9001 or equivalent quality system and process audit experience required.
• Proven problem‑solving experience.

• Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Zero Defect Plan (ZDP) practical experience.
• Lean/Six Sigma training (preference for certified green/black belt).
• Understanding of ISO
  9001/AS9100 and related QMS standards.
• Experience using RCCA tools such as FMEA, Pareto, 5‑Why, 8D, and Fishbone.
• Electrical, electro‑optical, and mechanical assembly background.
• IPC/J-Std experience.

Salary range: $84,000 – $135,000. Benefits include relocation stipend, 401(k), EAP, and company‑paid holidays. Specific programs and options may vary by date of hire, schedule type, and collective bargaining agreements.

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