Engineer, Quality; Aircraft

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Regular Full-Time Company Headquarters, Springfield, NJ, US

5 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $90,000.00 To $ Annually

Summary:

The Quality Engineer is responsible for supporting aerospace quality assurance activities for manufacturing, repair, inspection, test, supplier quality, customer quality, and regulatory compliance. This role ensures product and documentation compliance to customer requirements, engineering drawings, specifications, purchase orders, AS9100/ISO 9001 requirements, FAA/regulatory requirements where applicable, and internal procedures. The Quality Engineer supports root cause investigations, corrective actions, FAIs, audit readiness, nonconforming material review, delegated customer release activities, configuration control, supplier quality, and direct customer communication.

• Support and assure compliance with applicable aerospace regulatory and quality system requirements, including AS9100, ISO 9001, FAA Part 21 production approval requirements, FAA Part 145 repair station requirements, and applicable customer-specific quality requirements.
• Review products and documentation in accordance with applicable customer, regulatory, military, industry, and internal quality requirements.
• Responsible for assuring that customer quality requirements are adequately defined to permit appropriate quality planning, implementation, inspection, documentation, and product release.
• Support company certifications, external agency approvals, and customer approvals, including AS9100, ISO 9001, NADCAP/Nadcap, and other applicable customer or regulatory approvals.

• Review customer purchase orders, drawings, specifications, quality clauses, repair instructions, ATPs, OMMs/CMMs, and flow-down requirements to ensure quality planning, inspection, documentation, and release activities are properly defined before work is performed.
• Work closely with Product Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing, Test, and Inspection personnel to resolve quality-related issues involving design, methods, tooling, procedures, costs, and product conformance.
• Establish, revise, and maintain written procedures, instructions, and quality documentation related to product quality assurance activities.

• Participate in Material Review Board and nonconforming material activities, including defect investigation, containment, disposition support, customer notification support, and verification of corrective actions.
• Perform root cause analysis using tools such as 8D, 5 Whys, fishbone/Ishikawa, and other structured problem‑solving methods to identify appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
• Participate in cross‑functional corrective action teams, including Corrective Action Board activities, to investigate quality issues, eliminate causes of nonconformance, and verify corrective action effectiveness.
• Investigate customer complaints, field returns, internal defects, supplier issues, and audit findings; work with customer representatives and internal teams to resolve problems.

• Oversee critical testing and inspection activities; coordinate inspections with customers, source inspectors, government representatives, and internal inspection personnel as required.
• Analyze and document inspection and test results to support product acceptance, customer release, and corrective action activities.
• Review raw material certifications and approve raw material for production release when required.
• Prepare, review, and approve product data packages, including inspection records, test reports, material certifications, special process certifications, traceability records, and customer‑required documentation.
• Perform, review, and approve component and final product First Article Inspection Reports in accordance with AS9102 and…