Job: Quality Engineer

The Quality Engineer is a critical role in our organization, responsible for supporting our company's Quality Management System (QMS), driving improvements, and maintaining compliance throughout the organization. As an AS9100 accredited organization, Quality has extensive visibility and prominence at our company. The successful candidate must be self-motivated, detail-oriented, a team player, and capable of working closely with Production, Quality, Sales, Customer Service, and Engineering in meeting our company's customer commitments.Essential Duties and Functions:Work with the Operations, Inspection, Manufacturing Engineering, and Supply Chain to address issues daily.Be data-driven to assess processes, take measurements, and interpret data to facilitate continuous improvement in manufacturing operations.Report to the Quality Manager on Quality issues, metrics, and/or trends to support Management Reviews and improvement initiatives.Investigate the cause for discrepancies and nonconformities to develop disposition and recommend corrective action plans.Execute Assigned NCMRs, CARs, SCARs, and Customer Complaints, leveraging help from other functions. Drive root cause analysis to ensure permanent fixes.Serve as a guide for external third-party audits, complete FAI reports, and support customer source inspection as needed.Serve as the primary interface to customers and suppliers for quality-related matters.Evaluate and make recommendations on critical supplier selections and drive supplier continuous improvement processes, including leading on-site audits, evaluating prototypes, and reviewing and approving supplier corrective actions.Answer questions and provide direction to inspectors on quality-related topics.Execute AS9100 Compliance Activities (Internal and External Audits, Training).Conduct internal audits and work cross-functionally to resolve any findings through Corrective Actions.Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in engineering and a minimum of 6 years of prior relevant experience.Preferred Additional Skills:Experienced with Failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system (FRACAS).Working knowledge of AS9100.Six Sigma / DMAIC problem-solving knowledge preferred.Familiarity with requirements of IPC-A-610, MIL-STD-883, J-STD-001 highly desired but not required.Contract Specialties is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce.

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