Program Quality Engineer

Program Quality Engineer, Armtec Defense Technologies

Armtec Defense Technologies (Armtec) is an operating unit of the Transdigm Group (NYSE: TDG), an industry leader in aerospace and defense products and services. Armtec is comprised of three business units producing subcomponents for ordnance in Coachella, CA; decoy countermeasure flares in Camden AR; and radar countermeasure chaff in Lillington NC. At Armtec, we welcome skilled and enthusiastic people who share our determination and high standards to join us in our mission‑critical work supporting the US and allied war‑fighters who serve us all by defending democracy and protecting freedom.

This position is staffed in Coachella, at Armtec’s world‑class, sole‑source production facility for felted fiber nitrocellulose combustible cartridge cases for medium and large caliber military ammunition; and pyrophoric payloads for training grenades.

Company: Armtec Defense Technologies is an operating unit of the Trans Digm Group (NYSE: TDG).

Industry: Manufacturing Combustible Ordnance and Countermeasures

Title: Program Quality Engineer

Job Family: Manufacturing Management

Reports to: Site Leader

Works with: mid‑level managers, supervisors, engineers, and quality assurance; as well as significant direct interface with customers from U.S. Dept. of Defense and major prime contractors.

Location: Coachella, California

Type: Full‑Time

The Program Quality Engineer at Armtec Defense Technologies is responsible for Quality function leadership on one or more strategic production programs. This responsibility includes both the management of daily production quality activities and personnel, but also requires supporting the strategic growth of the program by engaging with customers, developing and deploying processes around new products, and analyzing performance trends and results and driving fundamental quality process and performance improvements within the program.

They are a peer with their Program, Operations, and Engineering Integrated Product Team Leaders, and must work in concert with this leadership team to ensure that our contractual commitments are met, and that Quality program objectives and metrics are achieved and are continually improved. On this team, the Program Quality Engineer is the main point of contact and authority within their assigned program for all Quality activities and decisions and ensures that required quality activities to support the program are identified, prioritized, and completed.

• Identify, define, and coordinate key quality efforts that are needed to support their assigned program.
• Mentor and develop direct reports in quality processes and production methods and requirements.
• Coordinate and negotiate changes in quality requirements with our customers.
• Regularly collect and communicate status of technical activities within the program team, and to executive leadership as needed.
• Lead failure analysis investigations and perform root cause analysis on product quality and process issues to help expedite return to operation activities and ensure prevention of future problems.
• Perform DMAIC studies, and design/execute DoE’s to identify driving factors that impact product characteristics and implement controls to improve process capability.
• Ensure our measurement systems are reliable and repeatable and always within calibration.
• Analyze production performance metrics and trends to identify key performance parameters and identify potential improvement and risk areas.
• Drive down scrap rates and improve product yields.
• Drive down product characteristic variability measures, improve process capabilities (Cpk/Ppk)
• SPC training monitoring and implementation.
• Primary technical Quality point of contact for Program(s) IPT.
• Lead in process improvements and executions (8
  
  Ds, RCA, DMAIC, FMEAs, DOEs/Data Analysis, and recommendations. Drives prevention of defects versus control by evaluating scrap data and program performance.
• RFQ/RFE review and support: review of requirements on new or existing products. Provides cost inputs to meet requirements and technical knowledge for where items need to be…