Lead, Quality Engineering

Job Title: Lead, Quality Engineering
Job Code: 45238
Job Location: Onsite at our Canoga Park, CA facility

Job Schedule: 9/80 Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

We are seeking a Lead, Quality Engineer to join our team in Canoga Park, CA. This individual will provide program Quality Engineering support for assigned contracted programs spanning the lifecycle of the program. This includes design, development, production, test and supplier support.

Essential Functions:

• Utilizes engineering background and expertise to ensure customer requirement flow-down and hardware is compliant to specifications. Handles and communicates deviations/non-conformances at different levels within the organization and at customer level as applicable. Prepares comprehensive analyses, procedures, reports and presentations for both internal and external customers.

• Actively participates in improvement teams to reduce risk through the application of six sigma tools. Applies zero defects quality principles, concepts and methods, including Lean Manufacturing to continuously improve processes, reduce cost and ensure the quality of our products and services.

• Drives corrective and preventative action activity both in-house and at the supplier and provides corrective action board support to manage timely and effective problem closure and recurrence control.

• Interprets engineering drawings and specifications, customer quality requirements and company quality requirements to ensure compliance with the customer's requirements. Participates in design reviews to identify and correct inspectability and producibility issues and opportunities early in the product life cycle. Provides a clear and concise flow down of product definition and Quality requirements to Suppliers.

• Leads execution of daily work assignments to meet program quality, cost, and schedule commitments. Actively participates in the Material Review Board, including segregation and control of nonconforming hardware to preclude inadvertent processing, disposition nonconforming hardware, preparing for and conducting board meetings, and implementing disposition decisions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years prior related Quality experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related Quality experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related Quality experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong mentoring/teaching ability.
• Ability to analyze, evaluate and develop solutions to a variety of situations.
• Must consistently meet commitments.
• Advanced degree in a related field.
• CQE and/or CMQ/OE and/or CSSBB.
• APQP and or Zero Defect Planning experience.
• EVM familiarity.
• BOE experience.
• Experienced with the use of Power BI.

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California is $116,500 - $216,500. 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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