Quality Engineer

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DRS Pivotal Power, Inc. is located in Bedford, Nova Scotia. DRS Pivotal Power is a leader in the design, development and manufacture of high reliability power conversion equipment for mission critical applications supporting all branches of the military in Canada, the US and many countries abroad. All products are designed and manufactured in house by our growing team of over 100 employees.

DRS Pivotal Power is part of the Leonardo DRS Naval Electronics group and has currently over 30,000 fielded units boasting a field reliability of over 99%.

Reporting directly to Manager-Quality, the Quality Engineer will be responsible for assisting with quality system development and supporting product quality improvements. They will develop, maintain and deploy quality plans and activities that translate customer requirements into planned activities. This role is an in‑office position reporting on‑site at our Bedford, NS facility.

• Assist with quality system development and support product quality improvements
• Develop, maintain and deploy quality plans and activities that translate customer requirements into planned activities
• Work independently under supervision of others
• Review and approve engineering/test and contractor documentation and provide input to assure that appropriate quality requirements are addressed
• Gather, organize, monitor, analyze and report on information on products and processes
• Provide ongoing quality system support to include performing internal audits and ensuring implementation of root‑cause corrective actions
• Participate on product quality improvement teams, Material Review Boards and Failure Review Boards
• Evaluate and disposition non‑conforming material
• Provide technical support for Assembly/Test/Inspection personnel to include executing workmanship improvement plans, developing inspection methods and criteria, specifying appropriate sampling plans, interpreting and revising specifications, and processing non‑conforming materials
• Assist in resolving customer quality issues
• Initiate and drive root cause and corrective action on process and product quality issues
• Participate in supplier selection and improvement processes
• Assist with on‑site audits, evaluate prototypes, and review and approve supplier corrective actions
• Perform inspection activities to assess conformance of products to the design as defined by the engineering drawings and/or models
• Inspect products, components, subassemblies, and/or systems to ensure conformance to requirements
• Identify nonconforming conditions of products that present existing or impending defective conditions at the system or subsystem level of assembly
• Prepare inspection plans and checklists for inspection
• Generate discrepancy notices and initiate Material Review Board actions
• Perform material movement transactions after completing inspection process
• Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization
• Perform receiving inspection, in‑process inspection, process verification/auditing, final inspection, etc.
• Attend appropriate customer, business or program meetings
• Prepare quality engineering reports and recommendations
• Provide regular reporting of progress and status

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience – considered an asset
• 3 – 5 years of related work experience within a fast‑paced electronics manufacturing environment
• General knowledge of relevant manufacturing standards (such as J-Std-001/IPC-A-610/IPC/WHMA-A-620) or common mechanical techniques (such as geometric dimensioning and tolerance practices)
• Ability to use various…