Engineering - Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Engineer PositionThe 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 trendsDrive Lessons learned and utilize new technologies to improve Quality operationsProvide inputs to the Production QPM on product QA tasking, as required, to ensure sound labor estimates on ECPs and ongoing proposal effortsParticipate 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 acceptanceAbility to support, participate and execute strategies related to the roll-out of advanced manufacturing. This includes Additive Manufacturing, Rapid Prototyping, Lean Manufacturing, etcBasic Qualifications:Excellent communication skillsAS9100 knowledge Proven audit experienceUse of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)Familiarity with hardware engineering requirements development and design, and system integration and testGood 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 CitizenDesired skills:2+ Years of relevant experience and related 4 year degree.DoD contract experienceLean/Six Sigma black (or green) beltIPC 610/620 and J-STD-001 standardsExperience 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 QualitySurface-mount Technology (SMT) experience PLANIT Group