Quality Engineer

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Responsibilities:

Develop partnerships with senior managers, IPTs, customers, and quality functions of the program team to define steps necessary to implement proactive quality strategies

Engage on both strategic and tactical levels, focusing on quality, cost and schedule performance, early engagement, influencing and providing differentiating quality value to program teams and customers

Generation of new CORE (Customer Oriented Result and Excellence), CoPQ (Cost of Poor Quality) projects to reduce costs/increase efficiency

Monitor / lead root cause corrective action (RCCA)

Facilitate the completion of internal and customer required First Article Inspection (FAI) Reviews

Participation and preparation for customer, third party regulatory and internal audits

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree and a minimum of five (5) years of prior relevant experience

Must have some type of aerospace or DoD experience or something regulated

Must have first article inspection

Working experience with AS9100 Quality Management Systems

Working experience leading teams in failure analysis, root cause analysis, corrective and preventative action

Working experience in providing technical program support for manufacturing and/or design processes

Six Sigma, Lean, and / or American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications

Experienced team player who achieves goals and strives for continuous improvement

Experience Reviewing Purchase Orders, Customer Drawings, Corrective Action Requests (CAR)

Experience interfacing directly with customers

Experience leading customer audits

Experience presenting, reviewing and/or approving changes through a formal Change Board

Experience exercising judgement and apply resolution-making skills with appropriate supervisory intervention

Experience in risk mitigation and opportunity management

Experience translating system requirements and contractual requirements to ensure full compliance is flowed down through product, assembly, and test documentation

Experience applying people skills and working with customers, suppliers, and in a team environment

Experience in First Article Inspections per AS9102

Experience in one or all of the following is highly desired: Six Sigma, Process Certification, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), and Product Part Approval Process (PPAP)

Experienced in 8D, quality tools, 5 Whys of Root Cause Analysis, and SPC analysis

Ability to lead a cross-functional team and provide forecasting to reach established goals

Ability to assimilate, analyze, and present data to leaders, customers, and peers

Experiencing interfacing with internal and external customers as well as all levels of personnel