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