Quality Engineer

Description


Job Title: Quality Engineer Location: Gilbert, AZ Employment Type: Contract (6 months) Industry: Aerospace and Defense Compensation: $ 22.00-$33.00/hr. Schedule: 40 hrs/Week. About the Opportunity:

• Individual contributors with specialized knowledge and skills within a technical discipline.
• May direct the work of other lower-level professionals in the context of a project, process, or program.
• The majority of time is spent overseeing technical design, implementation, or delivery of projects, processes, or programs using technical skills acquired through advanced education or equivalent work experience.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

Why This Opportunity is Exciting: This role offers the opportunity to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while providing you with room to grow and develop professionally. About Acara Solutions Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider- we help companies compete for talent. With experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and design talent solutions that deliver the business outcomes they want. We draw on decades of experience to provide contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide. Sound like a good fit? APPLY TODAY What You'll Do:

• This job family defines and specifies activities, processes, and standards to fulfill the quality requirements for a service or manufactured material, component, or product.
• Activities include auditing, monitoring, and determining the quality of processes or outputs, either against defined internal or regulatory standards, reporting on process deviations and defects.
• Positions in this sub-family are responsible for developing, modifying, applying, and maintaining quality evaluation and control systems/protocols including: devising and implementing methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment; designing and analyzing inspection and testing processes, mechanisms, and equipment; conducting quality assurance tests and performing statistical analysis to assess the level of control and manage product quality risks; undertaking root cause analysis of incidents requiring corrective action; and ensuring that corrective measures and deviation meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• Individual contributor.
• Works under direct supervision.
• Achieves operational targets with some impact on results of job area.
• Works on smaller, less complex projects or task-related activities.
• Work requires elementary use or application of engineering principles, theories, and concepts.
• Problems are not immediately evident but typically have a solution.
• Makes minor changes in systems and processes to solve routine or standard problems.
• Works under close supervision.
• Work is reviewed for soundness of technical judgment and accuracy
• The Quality Engineer (QE) will support Engineering Validation Testing (EVT) for spacecraft involving Thermal Vacuum, Dynamic, Propulsion, and EMI testing.
• Ensure adherence to applicable procedures and Customer contract requirements during the EVT campaign.
• Support pre-test meetings by verifying test setup configuration, test equipment calibration is current, and flight software versions are current.
• Support post-test meetings by verifying all signoffs are complete, all requirements have been met, and all test flags or nonconformances dispositioned appropriately.
• Document and facilitate timely disposition of nonconformances (NCs) and test flags through TIPQA/Teamcenter/IMBS/MBS systems.
• Support operational tasks including integration and testing, installations, bus movements, and other activities.
• Participate in daily planning and update meetings with Customer for communication of quality issues and resource needs.
• Collaborate with Test Engineering, Systems Engineering, and QE team to resolve issues and ensure smooth test execution.
• Facilitate cross-functional Root Cause Corrective Actions (RCCA) as needed.
• Review and completed End Item Data Packs (EIDPs)

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, preferably in Aerospace.
• 5+ years of experience in industry quality standards, Quality Management System (QMS) Procedures, and Customer contract needed.
• 5+ years of experience in AS9100
• 5+ years of experience in performing RCCA analysis

What Sets You Apart:

• Strong RCCA facilitation experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical presentation skills.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and electrical schematics.
• Proficiency with computer skills including Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word,
• Project, etc.).
• Experience with Engineering Validation Testing strongly.
• AS9100/ISO9001
• Achieved Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training Certificate
• J-STD-001
• NASA Standard
• Project Quality Assurance
• Project Quality Management

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

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