Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer 3 (Aerospace)

Position Summary:

• Quality Engineer 3 is responsible for technical support to the Quality Assurance Department.
• The position requires an engineering or technical background sufficient to assist in identifying technical issues and getting to the root cause of the problem.
• Responsibility includes, procedure development, drawing reviews, process development / continuous improvement, and providing joint technical interface between Engineering, Manufacturing & Program Management.

• Statistical techniques, i.e., failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), reliability failure analysis, design of experiments, statistical decision making, and statistical process control (SPC) and Six Sigma implementation.
• Knowledge of military and commercial specifications for materials, mechanical & electrical products, hydraulics/pneumatics, various special processing, such as, chemical processing, coatings, welding, heat treating, and non-destructive testing.
• Implementation and management of Zero Defect methodologies, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), and other principles for various customer programs.
• Participates in the AS9100/ISO
  9001 quality management system requirements with implementation, training and maintenance of the Quality department operating procedures, supporting internal audit activities and preparing input data for quality management review.
• ASME Y14.5M (dimensioning and tolerancing), ANSI/ASQC Z1.4 (sampling procedures and tables for inspection by attributes), MIL-STD-100 (engineering drawing practices), ANSI/NCSL Z540-3 (calibration systems requirements), FED-STD-H28 (screw thread standards).
• Support new business development with customer quality requirements compliance review, proposal writing support and generating quality assurance program plans.
• Knowledge and experience of various company quality requirements, such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell, & Raytheon. Implementation of contractual requirements for quality planning, inspection, source inspection, and flow down. Interface & processing of Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) government inspections thru WAWF - Wide Area Workflow.
• Support additional customer requirements including preparation and interface for surveys, readiness reviews, review and approve AS9102 first article inspections, analyzes audit results and determines proper corrective and preventive action. Knowledge of Net-Inspect, DISCUS, & Visual FAIR software.
• Participate in and/or coordinate material review board (MRB) activities to issue, tract and close corrective actions, respond to customer requests for corrective action and generate failure and investigation reports.
• Perform corrective actions using 8-D format, fault trees, cause & effect diagrams, 5 Whys, and other tools; and to communicate data internally and externally.
• Conduct continuous improvement projects and initiatives as necessary
• Support and provide assistance to Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering in drawing development and drawing revisions for productivity, detailed work instructions, process approval and to offset cause of deviations from quality standards.
• Perform failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA) reliability failure analysis, design of experiments, statistical decision making, and risk management.
• Support production and supplier evaluations & supplier development, supplier surveys, assistance with supplier quality requirements and issues, supplier source inspection and supplier performance reviews.
• Develop inspection methods, techniques, sampling plans based on statistical data and inspection equipment requirements for inspection and test personnel.
• Provide inspection plans, drawing and specification interpretation for inspection and other company personnel.
• Support of customer product returns - failure investigation reports, teardown and evaluation, customer communication, and quality defect reporting on various customer website portal.
• Review test procedures for completion and accuracy. Assists with the performance of acceptance tests and prepare inspection and test data for submittal to the customer.
• Performs process analysis, and develops statistical techniques for analysis of test data.
• Collect and present data on quality performance metrics for monthly quality reports.
• Must be able to work with minimum supervision.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance is required. May need to work additional hours as necessary

• Education requirement: Bachelor degree is a must preferred in Quality, Engineering or Technical degree.
• Total years of experience: 7+ years' experience as a Quality Engineer or in related position.
• Certification: ASQ Quality Engineer certification a plus.
• Experience includes maintaining an AS9100/ISO 9001 Quality Management System.
• Must have a background in Engineering and…