Senior Program Quality Engineer

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Senior Program Quality Engineer

39388

Yorba Linda, California

4/10:
Employees work 10 hour days, 4 days a week with every Friday off

As a Sr. Specialist in Quality Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in the sustainment and development of electro‑mechanical assemblies (e.g. Underwater Acoustics, Telemetry, Communications, Data Recording systems, and/or Radar), including control of outsourced production, ensuring successful implementation of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Design for Manufacturability (DFM) tasks. Your contributions will be essential to the success of our team, extended program team, and the business.

In this role, you will engage in data‑driven improvement and sustainment initiatives by identifying, writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising quality assurance procedures, statistical sampling techniques, quality plans, inspection and testing techniques, and specifications. You will work independently and collaboratively to provide thorough and practical solutions to a wide range of electrical, software, and technical challenges.

Successful candidates will have experience utilizing APQP techniques along with various other quality engineering tools. You will drive impactful improvements in supplier performance/development, lead the issuance of Supplier Corrective Actions, and support supplier root cause investigations to identify effective corrective actions that address material and service defects, non‑conformances, and compliance gaps. Your role will involve close interaction with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Program Management, and Engineering personnel to ensure high‑quality deliveries from our supply base.

• Perform quality engineering functions for specific phases of projects and programs, developing plans, flow charts, inspection methods, procedures, and standards to ensure all products, data, or services meet specified quality requirements.
• Perform supplier quality audits, source inspections, and First Article Inspections in partnership with Supply Chain Management.
• Generate and deploy APQP tools to ensure manufacturability of internally produced designs.
• Perform internal audits and support external audits to ensure compliance with applicable standards.
• Train and coach other functions inside the company on the value and utilization of quality tools, standards, and practices.
• Utilize a sense of urgency to act to prevent or correct problems with products and post‑delivery defects.
• Interpret and flow down customer quality requirements to programs, engineering, manufacturing and inspection via Program Quality Requirements (PQR).
• Interface effectively with customers to discuss and negotiate quality requirements and specifications.
• Implement, interpret, and utilize metrics to drive process improvement projects. Analyze metrics and indicators to determine opportunities for improvement, focusing on early detection and prevention of nonconformance.
• Effectively work as a cost account manager for the quality engineering elements of the program work breakdown structure.
• Understand and apply risk management principles as an essential part of the quality engineering work scope.
• Review engineering and manufacturing information on designs, specifications, and bills of materials to ensure products meet customer requirements.
• Lead teams and perform investigations to drive Corrective and…