Aerospace Quality Engineer

Company Overview

Qarbon Aerospace is a premier manufacturer of cutting-edge composite components and assemblies at all levels of complexity, with products installed on the industry’s most advanced commercial and military aircraft, and space vehicles. As a US-based company with a global footprint of more than 1,650,000 ft2 of state-of-the-art facilities, Qarbon Aerospace has the capabilities and resources to solve the market’s toughest challenges with Quality Assured.

With more than 100 years of experience, we build quality into every fiber, letting your ideas take flight.

The Quality Engineer 3 provides technical support to production operations and helps establish the quality system and production inspection related activities on their assigned project(s). The Quality Engineer 3 position has knowledge of relevant technologies and can operate unassisted on routine tasks on a deployed multi-functional team and helps ensure the quality system meets stakeholder requirements including technical compliance, adherence to production processes and standards, and business case (including quality, delivery, and cost).

Supports the production process with technical knowledge for tooling, part fabrication, assembly, and delivery. Supports implementation of "state of the art" processing technology as it applies to both materials and techniques for tooling, part fabrication and assembly.

• Works under occasional supervision from senior engineers and program leadership in a team environment.
• Subject matter expert for manufacturing of composite components and large aerospace composite and metallic assemblies ensuring parts, assemblies, and tools meet industry standards and customer requirements.
• A key member of teams that work from engineering requirements to develop inspection processes and methodologies, including providing guidance to lesser experienced team members; develops First Article Inspection (FAI per AS9102) pre-plans and methods.
• Responsible for implementation of inspection tooling, equipment, and production planning from concept through production; validates tooling functionality and part conformity, and supports on-time production to meet the delivery schedule.
• Identifies and coordinates introduction of new technology in line with the assigned Program / Value Stream requirements.
• Supports Make vs. Buy decisions and the subsequent supplier selection process.
• Adheres to all applicable business and quality processes and procedures such as FAA, DoD, Export Control, ITAR, Nadcap, AS9100 and customer contractual requirements.
• Has knowledge of Lean/Six Sigma tools to predict and improve process yield; some level of related formal certification is preferred.
• Supports deployment of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) tools to evaluate customer designs and process concepts and assist in manufacturing process down-select; a minimum mid-level knowledge and experience with PFMEA is required.
• Has knowledge of practical problem-solving techniques such as A3, 8D, 5 Why, Ishikawa diagrams, and Pareto analysis to determine the origin of a failure and implement containment and countermeasures to prevent recurrence of nonconformances.
• Publishes Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) and associated metrics such as quality, delivery, and related costs.
• Acts as the primary technical representative for customer and supplier technical topics, meetings, audits, and reviews as required.
• Maintains positive team relationships with internal and external customers, as well as peers.
• Other related duties as required due to changes in business processes or customer requirements.

• Must be a US Citizen or a Permanent resident per ITAR guidelines (Green Card).
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or a foreign person per ITAR.
• A minimum of 5 years of related experience, including at least 3 years in a manufacturing production environment.
• Bachelor of Science in a relevant field (such as mechanical, manufacturing or aerospace engineering). Significant work experience in similar roles will be considered.
• Knowledge of aerospace composites…