Lead Quality Engineering

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Job Title: Lead, Quality Engineering

Job Number: 33418

Job Location: Mason, OH

Job Schedule: 9/80

Clearance: Must Have the Ability to Obtain and Maintain a Department of War Security Clearance

Job Description:

As a Quality Engineer you will contribute to the success of the team, extended program team and the business. In this role you will engage in data-driven improvement and sustainment initiatives. Additionally, you will design, write, implement, evaluate, and revise quality assurance procedures, statistical sampling techniques, quality plans, inspection and testing techniques and specifications. The Quality Engineer will work both independently and along team members to provide thorough and practical solutions to a wide range of electrical, electro-optical, mechanical and technical problems.

This role will also lead the administration of Quality system tools (i.e TIPQA). Successful candidates will have experience utilizing Lean Green Belt techniques and various other quality engineering tools.

• Implement, interpret, and utilize metrics toward process improvement activities.
• Lead teams and perform investigations to drive CAPA for nonconformance, as well as actively participate in material review. Act as the Quality Subject Matter Expert (SME) on program and design teams.
• Generate and deploy Green Belt tools to act as indicators of quality of items produced and health of the process. Analyze metrics and indicators to determine opportunities for improvement. Early detection and resolution of nonconformance is a key requirement in this role.
• Interpret and flow down customer quality requirements to programs, engineering, manufacturing, and inspection via Program Quality Requirements (PQR).
• Interface effectively and successfully with customers to discuss and negotiate quality requirements and specifications.
• Understand risk and risk management as an essential part of the quality engineering work scope.
• Utilize sense of urgency to act to prevent or correct problems with products and post-delivery defects.
• Assist in process improvement and process problem solutions on the factory floor.
• Perform quality engineering functions for specific phases of projects and programs to develop plans, flow charts, inspection methods, procedures and standards, including FAI, detailed instructions, check lists, sampling plans, classification of defects, etc.; to assure all products, data or services meet specified quality requirements.
• Review Engineering and Manufacturing information on new and revised designs, specifications and bills of materials; production, tool and test equipment drawings; production and tool plans; operations and routing sheets: production, storage and shipping methods, and to assure that products meet customers  requirements.
• Act as the administrator of TIPQA and/or other quality system tools including deploying standard processes and training.
• Effectively interface and collaborate with Supplier Quality Engineering in customer flow-down and to solve vendor quality problems.
• Apply effective interpretation and application of Quality Standards, such as AS9100, IS)-9001, J-Stds, etc.
• Effectively work as a cost account manager for the quality engineering elements of the program work breakdown structure.
• • Perform Quality trainings for employees

• Bachelor s Degree in Engineering and 9 years of Quality Engineering experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years…