Quality Engineer IV

Job Summary:

Under the direction of the Director of Quality, this candidate will serve as the primary production inspector with occasional supplier quality engineering support being required. The successful candidate will perform receiving, production floor and supplier component inspections using tools ranging from manual floor inspection tools (e.g., micrometers, calipers, visual, go/no‑go gauges, etc.) to computer aided inspection (CAI) methods (e.g., laser scanning, etc.).

These inspections may include source inspections at supplier facilities.

This candidate will utilize Quality Engineering methods to work with internal manufacturing engineers and suppliers to create and flow down inspection requirements, verify compliance with those requirements, drive corrective actions and ensure continuous improvement with the overall goal of ensuring internal manufacturing and supplier compliance with contractual and technical requirements. They will do this by:

• identifying and incorporating appropriate inspection methods and tools into both internal and supplier work instructions and inspection processes required to ensure accurate results
• using those methods and tools to inspect and verify compliance with defined pass‑fail criteria to include use of manual and CAI equipment
• programming inspection equipment (e.g., coordinate measuring machine (CMM), etc.)
• collaborating with suppliers and design engineering to develop product designs that mitigate potential defect sources
• collaborating with supplier and manufacturing engineering to mitigate potential process defects
• leading root cause, corrective and preventive action investigations/decisions/validations, actions, integration tasks

Performance of the Supplier Quality Inspector role is inclusive of tasks identified below, with minimal supervision.

• Overall Inspection to include:
• Program, setup and operate CAI, CMM, Keyence and other inspection equipment
• Use design data to perform first article, in-process & final inspections of supplier “Buy” & internal “Make” items
• Provide feedback to engineers and suppliers using resultant inspection data
• Document non‑conformance reports as required
• Provide inspection time estimates
• Conduct process and product evaluations and assessments to include inspection cycle time reductions
• Maintain configuration control of files and job records
• Support Hardware Acceptance Reviews (HARs)
• Safely work within an industrial environment
• Support Supplier Quality Engineer to include:
• Support appropriate flow down of program quality requirements to suppliers
• Support and conduct supplier source surveillance and inspections
• Review and ensure successful supplier First Article Inspection Reports (FAIR)
• Support Program Quality Engineer to include:
• Managing business processes to measure and improve quality performance and update/improve departmental procedures as required.
• Support internal and external audits
Required Qualifications:
• This job is part of Operations, which is comprised of Quality, Safety, Supply Chain and Manufacturing and requires an individual with experience partnering with the program manager, program quality engineer, supplier quality engineer, program planner/scheduler, control account managers and other program team members to achieve program objectives.
• This job requires an individual with excellent interpersonal communication skills (both spoken and written) to include communications with suppliers, program teams, company management, business partners, and customers.
• Unless otherwise stated in the requirements section of an individual job description, our positions require U.S. Citizenship, U.S. Permanent Residency, or other status as a U.S. Person as defined by 8 USC 1324b(a)(3).
• Minimum of fifteen (10) years of quality inspection experience which includes five (5) years of CMM or other computer aided inspection
• Experience supporting Quality for Department of Defense (DoD) programs for the U.S. Government
• Experience across various NC tracking systems to include TIP QA or similar tools.
Education:
• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) field
Skills Required:
• Proven critical thinking ability…