Quality Engineer

The Company:

Pacific Aerospace & Electronics (Pac Aero) is seeking a Quality Engineer to join our team! A successful candidate is committed to pushing the boundaries of technology, performance, and innovation. Join us and connect your career to the future!

Pac Aero’s core businesses include an array of electronic connectors and housings for the world’s most extreme environments. Pac Aero is primarily located in Wenatchee, WA with a remote manufacturing site, Bonded Metals, located in Sequim, WA. Working together, we employ proprietary technologies, best practices engineering, and specialized manufacturing techniques to produce hermetic connectors and electronic packaging that perform in the world’s most extreme environments.

Pac Aero’s products are hard at work in medical components, such as cardiac-function devices, on key aerospace & defense programs, in space and deep below the earth's surface.

Performs the responsibilities below to ensure customer satisfaction and activities related to continual improvement of the Quality Management System.

• Work cooperatively with all employees.
• Willingness to adapt work schedule to company needs.
• Consistently at work and on time.
• Perform other miscellaneous duties as assigned.
• Observe safety regulations and follow protective equipment requirements. Report hazardous observations to your lead or supervisor.
• Comprehend and follow all parts handling requirements.
• Quality Management Systems (QMS) maintenance.
• Assist Quality Manager in establishing, implementing and maintaining the QMS.
• Continual improvement activities to enhance the QMS.
• Create and maintain company quality documentation (Quality Manual, QPs, AWPs, SOPs, etc.)
• Continuously improve all QC inspection processes and procedures.
• Planning, organizing and managing the overall activities of Receiving, In-Process, and Final Inspection functions. This also includes product qualification testing.
• Develop training to build quality awareness throughout the company.
• Root cause analysis and implementation of corrective action for process related concerns.
• Assist Purchasing and Quality Manager in managing supplier’s performance.
• Field customer calls and emails regarding quality issues and complaints.

• Preparations and review of completed QC documents and reports, Inspection reports, AS9102 first article reports, Key Characteristic data reports, etc.
• Willing to adapt work schedule to company needs.
• Interface with Engineering and Manufacturing to ensure transfer of new products to Production is in accordance with internal and customer requirements.
• Assist Engineering in analyzing failures, corrective and preventive actions to respond to customer complaints.
• Accompany customers during audits and or visits as necessary.
• Ensure timely response to customer audit findings and customer corrective action requests for noncompliant product or other issues.
• Schedule and coordinate customer source inspection activities.
• Support the Quality Inspectors to ensure that products and processes comply with the relevant requirements of the QMS.
• Conduct internal and process audits, including closing out audit findings, creating audit finding reports and determining proper corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensure timely resolution of supplier failure, corrective actions and preventive actions.
• Review and approve disposition of NCRs as QC representative of MRB.
• Review and approve production order routings (BOM, revisions, inspection operations, inspection reports, etc.)
• Review quotes and customer contracts ensuring that all quality requirements are identified and special requirements are noted (including and identifying risks and taking exception to requirements that cannot be verified).
• Review and approve RFPCs (request for planning changes).
• Complete and submit customer waiver requests for noncompliant products as required.
• Assist Engineering with submitting customer drawing/specification change requests.

Pac Aero provides equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race,…