Product Quality Engineer

Job Description

One of Insight Global's aerospace customers is hiring a Product Quality Engineer to support the production floor for their avionics product lines. As a Product Quality Engineer, you will be the guardian of product integrity—ensuring what’s designed, built, and shipped consistently meets expectations and doesn’t come back as a problem later. Ideal candidate is adaptable, high-energy, and solutions-oriented; thrives in a hands-on environment and is comfortable being actively engaged on the production floor rather than in a traditional office setting.

Quality Planning & Product Realization

• Develop and maintain product and process quality plans, including control plans, inspection and test strategies, and CTQ identification

• Ensure configuration control across hardware, firmware, software and documentation

• Support new product introduction (NPI) and change readiness through Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) methods/milestones and risk reviews

• Partner with Manufacturing Eng. to define quality requirements to embed in standard work

• Lean quality assessments on Eng. changes, mitigating risk and integration to production

Incoming & Supplier Quality Assurance

• Develop, execute and govern risk based incoming inspection material acceptance plans

• Detect and problem solve supplier quality issues, including RCCA, SCARs, containment, and effectiveness verification

• Partner with Procurement and Engineering to improve supplier product and process maturity, with a focus on defect prevention and process capability

In Process Quality & Quality at the Source

• Establish and maintain in process quality controls at critical manufacturing steps through robust yield metrics, variance analysis and problem-solving methods. Monitor and improve RTY, defect trends, and process capability, driving prevention actions

• Define and enforce stop the line (andon) criteria for quality abnormalities

• Conduct layered process audits and verification of standard work and key process parameters

Final Acceptance, Test & Product Release

• Manage final inspection and acceptance, ensuring compliance with drawings, specifications, and configuration requirements while resolving resulting defects

• Ensure test compliance, including calibration status, procedure adherence, and data integrity

• Lead First Article Inspection (FAI) and first piece validation activities

• Ensure release documentation is complete, accurate, and audit ready

Nonconformance, MRB & Containment

• Own the life cycle of nonconformances, including initiation, triage, investigation, tracking and closure with defined aging expectations

• Lead MRB daily reviews, ensuring technically sound and compliant dispositions, return to vendor and defect resolution on recurring failures with product and/or process

• Lead containment and escape management, including product holds and stop-ships, and line/stock quarantines

• Collaborate with Eng. on rework and repair instructions, ensuring verification of effectiveness

Corrective Action & Problem Solving

• Lead and support cross functional root cause problem solving (A3, 8D, 5 Why)

• Ensure corrective actions prevent recurrence, not just close paperwork

• Verify effectiveness through KPI, audits, and trend monitoring

• Deploy lessons learned across product families and value streams

Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing

• Lead and support kaizen events and model line deployments

• Apply value stream thinking to reduce lead time, WIP, and variation through relentless focus on defect resolution in products and processes

• Drive process and documentation simplification

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Skills and Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Quality, Manufacturing, Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering, industrial or business

4 – 7+ years of experience in product quality or product-facing engineer roles

FAI experience

Strong understanding of SIOP processes

Experience with:

GD&T

Root cause & corrective action

Regulated environments (automotive, aerospace, medical, Food) manufacturing environment

Exposure to electronics assembly, test, box build, or harness manufacturing

corrective actions.

Proficiency with quality tools (FMEA, SPC, MSA, control plans, capability analysis). Knowledge of AS9100 and aerospace quality processes.