Quality Engineer III - Defense System Division
Listed on 2026-02-16
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Engineering
Quality Engineering, Process Engineer
Overview
Quality Engineer III - Defense System Division
Location:
United States, California, Irvine
Effective date:
Feb 05, 2026
Org Marketing Statement
Job Title:
Quality Engineer III
Job Code: 702103
Department:
Quality
Exempt or Non-Exempt:
Exempt
Grade: 50
Org Marketing Statement
At Parker Aerospace, we develop technologies and innovative solutions that enable reliable, efficient and increasingly sustainable flight for the lifecycle of the aircraft, including aftermarket support. Our passionate people with deep engineering expertise, together with our breadth of differentiated technologies, ensure that we make the extraordinary happen and continue to shape the future of aviation in partnership with our customers.
As a member of our team, you are instrumental in fulfilling our mission: 'Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow.' Pursuing a career at Parker presents unlimited opportunities for both professional and personal development. Working with some of the most brilliant minds in the industry, your contributions will be pivotal in developing innovative technologies and products, significantly contributing to Parker's goal of addressing the world's most pressing engineering challenges.
At Parker, our team members belong, matter and make a difference.
- Statistical techniques, i.e., failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), reliability failure analysis, design of experiments, statistical decision making, and statistical process control (SPC) and Six Sigma implementation.
- Knowledge of military and commercial specifications for materials, mechanical & electrical products, hydraulics/pneumatics, various special processing, such as, chemical processing, coatings, welding, heat treating, and non-destructive testing.
- Implementation and management of Zero Defect methodologies, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), and other principles for various customer programs.
- Participates in the AS9100/ISO
9001 quality management system requirements with implementation, training and maintenance of the Quality department operating procedures, supporting internal audit activities and preparing input data for quality management review. - ASME Y14.5M (dimensioning and tolerancing), ANSI/ASQC Z1.4 (sampling procedures and tables for inspection by attributes), MIL-STD-100 (engineering drawing practices), ANSI/NCSL Z540-3 (calibration systems requirements), FED-STD-H28 (screw thread standards).
- Support new business development with customer quality requirements compliance review, proposal writing support and generating quality assurance program plans.
- Knowledge and experience of various company quality requirements, such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell, & Raytheon. Implementation of contractual requirements for quality planning, inspection, source inspection, and flow down. Interface & processing of Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) government inspections thru WAWF - Wide Area Workflow.
- Support additional customer requirements including preparation and interface for surveys, readiness reviews, review and approve AS9102 first article inspections, analyzes audit results and determines proper corrective and preventive action. Knowledge of Net-Inspect, DISCUS, & Visual FAIR software.
- Participate in and/or coordinate material review board (MRB) activities to issue, tract and close corrective actions, respond to customer requests for corrective action and generate failure and investigation reports.
- Perform corrective actions using 8-D format, fault trees, cause & effect diagrams, 5 Whys, and other tools; and to communicate data internally and externally.
- Conduct continuous improvement projects and initiatives as necessary
- Support and provide assistance to Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering in drawing development and drawing revisions for productivity, detailed work instructions, process approval and to offset cause of deviations from quality standards.
- Perform failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA) reliability failure analysis, design of experiments,…
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