Quality Engineer

Description

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At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

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Leidos’
Defense Systems Mission Assurance is seeking a Manufacturing Quality Engineer to serve as the quality engineering focal point on the production floor, owning process control, inspection execution, and product acceptance for manufacturing operations as they scale to rate. This role is embedded in day-to-day production — fabrication, machining, mechanical and composite assembly, welding, painting and coating, and flight hardware assembly — and is responsible for ensuring that what is built is executable, inspectable, and demonstrably conforming at the point of manufacture.

This position is based in the Huntsville / North Alabama, AL area.

This is a hands-on individual contributor position reporting to the Manufacturing Quality Manager
, Defense Systems Mission Assurance. The Manufacturing Quality Engineer partners with manufacturing engineering, production, and design engineering to make work instructions executable and inspectable, to establish inspection and metrology capability at the point of manufacture, and to resolve nonconformances at the source. The role provides day-to-day technical direction to Quality Inspectors and Technicians on the floor but carries no direct supervisory responsibility.

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Leidos Defense Systems Sector provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions.

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Primary Responsibilities.

Manufacturing Process Quality & Process Control

• Serve as the quality engineering point of contact for assigned production areas, cells, and manufacturing processes.
• Establish and maintain in-process inspection points, acceptance characteristics, and objective evidence requirements within the production routing.
• Develop, qualify, and monitor special and key manufacturing processes — including welding, composites, coatings, heat treat, and bonding — against applicable specifications.
• Support process qualification, tooling and fixture acceptance, and gauge and metrology selection for new and transitioning work.
• Monitor process performance and initiate containment when a process drifts out of control.

Work Instruction, Configuration & Acceptance Baseline

• Review manufacturing and engineering work instructions to confirm they are both executable and inspectable — covering sequence, drawing and specification references, configuration and effectivity, required tools and gauges, acceptance characteristics, workmanship criteria, inspection, witness, and hold points, and required objective evidence.
• Provide quality inputs to work instruction, traveler, and inspection plan changes while maintaining clear ownership boundaries with Engineering for technical content.
• Verify that the floor works from authoritative, current, point-of-use data and drive elimination of uncontrolled reference sets and locally downloaded copies.

Product Conformance, Inspection & Material Review

• Execute and disposition First Article Inspections (FAI/AS9102) and support supplier part approvals for parts entering the production line.
• Participate in Material Review Board activities, perform or coordinate engineering evaluation, and disposition nonconforming material with documented…