Quality Engineer

About American Ordnance

At American Ordnance, we know the stakes and We do what we say! ® We’re the team working behind the scenes to make sure our nation’s front lines have safe, high-quality ammunition. As a trusted premier manufacturer of ammunition to the U.S. Military, some of our capabilities range from production of direct and indirect fire, warheads, to special projects and beyond.

With more than 70 years of experience and Day & Zimmermann behind us, it’s no surprise that our teams consistently exceed expectations. Come join in on our purpose – We put people to work, we protect American freedoms, and we help our customers power and improve the world!

Want to start your engineering career somewhere your work has real purpose and measurable impact? American Ordnance is looking for an entry-level Quality Engineer ready to turn data, problem-solving, and technical know-how into stronger, safer, more reliable manufacturing processes. In this role, you’ll work directly with ammunition products and production teams helping build quality into the process from the start, digging into root causes, supporting corrective actions, and driving continuous improvement.

You’ll gain hands‑on exposure to tools like FMEA, SPC, Control Plans, CAPA, and statistical analysis while collaborating across Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Program Management. If you’re analytical, curious, and ready to build your engineering career while supporting a mission that matters, you’ll have a purpose here.

• Provides direct Quality Engineering support, practices and promotes safety. Plans and executes innovative, preventive methods to 'build in' product quality and improve processes. Manages inspection staffing. Interfaces with internal and external customers, represents their perspective on quality issues.
• Recommends and supports continuous improvement projects using structured, team problem solving strategies and methods. Implements preventive actions, optimizes processes to prevent critical and other defects. Uses statistical methods to improve process capability, stability and reliability.
• Supports corrective action responses using root cause analysis and preventive strategies. Coordinates and approves corrective action responses. Responds through the AO Program Manager to customer requests for data.
• Reviews TDP, ECP's, contracts, technical specifications, etc. and provides input to the Configuration Control process. Generates documents, procedures. Maintains and reports on Quality metrics for the business unit. Communicates quality issues throughout AO.
• Leads Quality Planning activities utilizing Initial Quality Planning (IQP), FMEA, Control Plans, staffing and resource planning and data reporting. Supports AIE/AAIE review, test, R&R studies and approvals for AO ammunition items and component suppliers.

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Must have an intimate knowledge and understanding of the principles, practices and procedures of CP2/ISO Quality Systems and continuous improvement tools such as DOEs, SPC, FMEA, and Control Plans.
• May require a secret clearance.

• Associate’s Degree (AA) in Engineering, Quality, or Science Required
• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) Preferred
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