Lead, Quality Engineer- Automation 1

Job Title: Lead Quality Engineering Automation

Job Code: 46001

Job Location: Camden AR or Huntsville AL or Orange VA

Job Schedule: 4/10: Employees work 10 hours per day 4 days a week

Job Description:

The Missile Solutions Segment of L3Harris Technologies is seeking an experienced Automation Quality Engineer to support industrial expansion readiness and strategic growth initiatives across the Propulsion Systems sector. This role will focus on automation-related quality engineering in support of capacity expansion production ramp-up manufacturing transitions and advanced manufacturing implementation.

This position serves as a key interface between Quality Manufacturing Engineering Operations and site teams to ensure automated manufacturing processes are capable controlled and ready to support new and expanded operations. The role emphasizes improving process performance reducing variation and strengthening process controls to ensure quality is built into automated production systems.

The ideal candidate brings experience developing automated manufacturing environments applying data-driven process improvement methods and partnering across functions to improve process capability and readiness. This role requires strong quality engineering knowledge manufacturing process understanding and the ability to support cross-site and cross-program initiatives in a fast-paced defense manufacturing environment.

Essential Functions:

• Support quality activities for automation-related capacity expansion industrialization production ramp-up and manufacturing transitions across the Propulsion Systems sector.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering Operations and Quality teams to ensure automated processes are capable controlled and ready for production.
• Analyze process capability stability and failure modes using data-driven methods to improve process performance and robustness.
• Develop and implement process controls error-proofing and improvement actions for automated manufacturing processes.
• Apply and sustain SPC and other quality tools to maintain process performance and reduce variation.
• Support APQP activities PFMEA development control plans verification/validation and production readiness efforts for new or modified automated processes.
• Identify gaps in process capability control and reliability and coordinate actions to address them.
• Support quality documentation configuration control and First Article Inspection (FAI) execution for new or modified automated processes and equipment.
• Partner with operators engineers and supervisors to improve process understanding discipline and ownership.
• Provide automation process quality expertise to continuous improvement and cross-functional project teams.
• Ensure compliance with AS9100 internal quality management system requirements and customer-specific quality requirements.
• Up to 25% business travel required
• Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant Quality Engineering experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related lieu of a degree minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• 4 years of experience in automated manufacturing environments.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience in automated manufacturing and inspection environments preferably defense aerospace automotive or similar industries.
• Expertise in AI-assisted or otherwise automated inspection and defect detection systems.
• Experience with automated manufacturing systems such as PLC-controlled equipment robotics machine vision automated assembly or test systems.
• Capable of working independently and dynamically with minimum oversight with multiple and/or changing priorities.
• Demonstrated success supporting new product introduction or manufacturing scale-up efforts.
• Familiarity with APQP and manufacturing risk management.
• Knowledge of Six Sigma and LEAN manufacturing principles.
• Proficient in MS Word Excel PowerPoint Power BI.

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In compliance with pay transparency requirements the salary range for this role in Virginia is $101500 - $188500 This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits including health and disability insurance 401(k) match flexible spending accounts EAP education assistance parental leave paid time off and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire schedule type and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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