Engineering - Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Engineer Position

The position will work with Material Program Managers (MPM) and Production Quality Program Managers (QPM) on Product Quality Assurance (PQA) work tasks/priorities and functionally collaborates with the Center of Excellence (COE) Manager. The candidate must have a demonstrated history of strong performance and ability to take initiative across a variety of QA responsibilities/tasks on development and/or sustainment programs. The candidate is expected to quickly come-up to speed with the diverse product lines, Hardware PQA work scope, technical requirements, program risks, and delivery milestone schedule.

The Quality Engineer's responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Identify root causes and associated corrective actions, evaluate process/product performance, and participate/work with the engineering and production counterparts on program activities to assure processes and products are compliant to contractual requirements and proactive actions taken to prevent reoccurrence.
• Ability to evaluate and disposition production nonconforming hardware and analyze defect data to identify systemic issues and trends
• Drive Lessons learned and utilize new technologies to improve Quality operations
• Provide inputs to the Production QPM on product QA tasking, as required, to ensure sound labor estimates on ECPs and ongoing proposal efforts
• Participate in the program's hardware change control boards, as required Ability to verify systems are 100% compliant to the requirements and to present systems to customer representative(s) for acceptance
• Ability to support, participate and execute strategies related to the roll-out of advanced manufacturing. This includes Additive Manufacturing, Rapid Prototyping, Lean Manufacturing, etc

Basic Qualifications:

• Excellent communication skills
• AS9100 knowledge Proven audit experience
• Use of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Familiarity with hardware engineering requirements development and design, and system integration and test
• Good understanding of manufacturing and hardware engineering processes.
• Experience with use of Statistical Process Control in a production environment. This position requires special access to support the program and requires the selected candidate to be a US Citizen

Desired skills:

• 2+ Years of relevant experience and related 4 year degree.
• DoD contract experience
• Lean/Six Sigma black (or green) belt
• IPC 610/620 and J-STD-001 standards
• Experience interfacing with Government Customer Representative.
• Experience with implementation of advanced manufacturing techniques i.e.; additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, lean manufacturing, Data Analytics and Computer Aided Inspection.
• Experience with implementation of predictive Quality
• Surface-mount Technology (SMT) experience