Quality Engineer III

Mercury Systems Quality Engineering team is seeking an eager Quality Engineer to play a key role in driving continuous improvement, resolving complex quality challenges, and ensuring product excellence in a fast-paced aerospace/ defense environment. The Quality Assurance Engineer will act as the Quality Program Lead for multiple design, development, and production programs. The Quality Engineer is responsible for assuring the program(s) meet plans, processes, specifications, and contractual requirements.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assists with developing and improving standards and procedures
• Creates Quality, test and inspection plans and reports
• Ensureson-going ISO/AS9100/AS9100/ISO 17025 compliance with the Quality Management System
• Verifies the accuracy or performance of the product and creates a Failure Analysis Report and participates in FACAR Analysis as necessary
• Analyze failures, determine root cause and initiate corrective action on product and internal process failures
• Performs supplier qualification, visits, and audits
• Utilizes Customer (Internal or External) feedback as an input to drive continual improvement
• Implements, administers, and maintains Quality Management System through design, development and production phases on Engineering/Production programs
• Interfaces with Program Management, Engineering and Operations in program lifecycle
• Reviews and performs first article inspections as required
• Reviews program documentations (drawings, assemblies, procedures, reports, etc.)
• Perform other duties as necessary

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in an Engineering discipline OR equivalent years of relevant experience in lieu of a Bachelor's
• Typically requires 4+ years’ experience performing Quality Assurance/Quality Engineering duties in a mission critical environment
• Corporate corrective action tools, ERP Systems, and supplier portals experience
• Practical knowledge and experience with AS9100 Quality Management systems
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance. US Citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ASME Y14.5 Dimensioning and Tolerancing
• ANSI Z1.4 Sample Plans
• Experience working with Boeing, Raytheon, DCMA, or other Prime Customers
• Relance ETQ, Oracle ERP
• Green Belt or Black Belt certification
• AS9100

Fulltime Equivalent Job Grade Salary Range for this position

• "$75,000.00 - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in FL, GA, IN, AZ, AL, MD or TX, and all remote employees
• $84,000.00 - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in VA, CA, NH or MA
• $88,500.00 - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in NJ"

Mercury considers a variety of factors to determine individual base salary offers to candidates, including:

• the role and related responsibilities;
• education, training, skills and certifications;
• internal equity with others employed by Mercury in similar roles;
• geographic location; and
• alignment with market data.

In addition to base salary, Mercury provides a variety of benefits for team members including:

• bonus opportunities (or special incentives for sales positions);
• health, life and disability insurance;
• company-paid holidays and time off;
• discounted employee stock purchase plan;
• tuition reimbursement; and
• access to professional development and personal wellness platforms including Linked In Learning, Headspace, Aaptiv and Virgin Pulse.

Team members at the Director or Vice President level are also eligible to receive annual stock-based awards.

Mercury offers a 9/80 alternative work schedule that provides employees more opportunity for work/ life balance (available based off location)

Why should you join Mercury Systems?

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide.

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