Quality Assurance Engineer PacSci EMC Chandler, AZ, Posted ago

Position: Quality Assurance Engineer PacSci EMC Chandler, AZ, United States Posted 11 hours ago
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** Quality Assurance Engineer
**** Job Overview
** Pac Sci EMC is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to provide customer- and program-focused quality leadership across assigned aerospace and defense programs. This role serves as a key quality interface with customers and internal program teams while maintaining end-to-end ownership of quality issues that may extend into manufacturing and the supplier base.
** Essential Functions*
* • Own quality performance for assigned customer and program portfolios, serving as a primary quality interface with customers and aerospace/defense prime contractors.
• Review proposals, statements of work, customer requirements, and related program documentation to help ensure alignment with design intent, quality requirements, regulatory requirements, and contractual commitments.
• Partner closely with Program Management and cross-functional teams including Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, and Supplier Quality to identify, assess, and resolve quality risks.
• Maintain end-to-end ownership of quality issues across customer, manufacturing, and supplier boundaries; coordinate the appropriate resources and drive issues through effective resolution.
• Support first article readiness and execution, including AS9102/FAI requirements, and help ensure supplier quality requirements and flow-downs are understood and properly implemented.
• Lead and support root cause investigation and corrective/preventive action using structured methodologies such as 5 Why, Fishbone/Ishikawa, CAPA, 8D, Apollo, or other appropriate problem-solving methods.
• Support manufacturing process validation, control plans, inspection instructions, quality records, and other quality-system documentation required to demonstrate process and product compliance.
• Analyze production and quality data to identify trends, systemic issues, and improvement opportunities, and use data to support sound technical and business decisions.
• Participate in customer and program reviews as the quality and compliance voice for assigned programs, communicating risks, status, corrective actions, and quality performance clearly and professionally.
• Exercise independent judgment and ownership in making quality decisions that may have significant customer, program, compliance, and financial impact; escalate appropriately when additional support or authority is required.
• Drive continuous improvement using Lean, Six Sigma, and other appropriate quality tools and methodologies.
• Build effective working relationships across functions and levels of the organization, influencing outcomes without direct authority and fostering a team-first approach to problem solving.
** Education and Experience*
* • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline preferred; equivalent directly relevant quality engineering experience will be considered.
• Three or more years of hands-on Quality Engineering experience required; five or more years preferred.
• Aerospace and defense quality experience strongly preferred. Experience in other highly regulated manufacturing environments, particularly medical device or automotive, may also be considered.
** Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities*
* • Demonstrated experience supporting customer- or program-facing quality activities, including direct interaction with customers and cross-functional program teams.
• Strong working knowledge of manufacturing process validation, control plans, inspection methods, quality records, and corrective action processes.
• Experience with structured root cause and corrective action methods; ability to select and apply the…