Quality Engineer

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Salary: $85,000 - $105,000 per year

Our client is a well-known leader in the precision manufacturing arena and for over 30 years now, they have been growing their client base and expanding mostly within the aerospace, marine and space industries. They specialize in the precision machining, welding, and fabrication of complex components used in numerous high-technology systems.

Benefits: Medical, Vision, Dental, 401k 5% Match, Company incentives, 2 weeks PTO, Sick Pay, 10 paid Holidays, Floating Holiday

If you are looking for stability and growth potential with a down-to-earth team that has a solid employee retention ratio, please read on…

Responsibilities:

• Develop program or project quality system processes and supporting product quality improvements.
• Perform analyses of program requirements and prepare responsive quality plans, procedures, schedules, and resource allocations to assure optimum quality support.
• Review and approve engineering/test and contractor documentation and provide input to assure that appropriate quality requirements are addressed.
• Lead the efforts to gather, organize, monitor, analyze and report on information on products and processes.
• Provide ongoing quality system support to include performing internal audits, ensuring implementation of root cause corrective actions.
• Lead quality improvement teams, Material Review Boards and Failure Review Boards.
• Evaluate and disposition non-conforming material.
• Provide technical support for Assembly/Test/Inspection personnel to include executing workmanship improvement plans, developing inspection methods and criteria, specifying appropriate sampling plans, interpreting, and revising specifications, and processing non-conforming materials.
• Act as main customer and senior management interface in resolving customer quality issues and driving root cause and corrective action on process and product quality issues.
• Develop and deploy initiatives internally and at suppliers.
• Evaluate and make recommendations on critical supplier selections and drives supplier continuous improvement processes including leading on-site audits, evaluating prototypes, etc.
• Review and approve supplier corrective actions.
• Monitor development activities to ensure contract compliance, as required.
• Develop new procedural controls to address all aspects of quality programs.
• Develop and generate statistical reports on inspection activities and results, new product or process testing results, etc. and recommend action as required.
• Establish programs to evaluate the precision and accuracy of production and processing equipment and testing, measurement, and analytical facilities.
• Coordinate scheduling and compliance for calibration and/or verification of all inspection and test equipment.

Requirements:

• Proficient technical expertise and application domain knowledge.
• Experience coding and using QA software tools and processes required.
• Root cause analysis experience preferred.
• Experience with programming and operation of Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM), inspection of machine components, and performance of gage R&R studies preferred.
• Proficient with ISO Standards, 6 Sigma tools, and calculate Statistics.
• Ability to understand military and customer specifications and to read blueprints.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, communication and writing skills.
• Ability to define problems and drive to root cause and effective corrective action.
• Experience in Supplier Quality Engineering including; Supplier auditing; Supplier Qualification; Supplier monitoring using Supplier score cards; PPAP; First Article Inspection.
• Experience with AS9100 and ISO9001 procedure writing and auditing
• Competent in problem solving tools: Root Cause Analysis, 8D, 5 Whys, DMAIC.
• Able to understand directions and directives that are communicated in English.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to perform multiple tasks and obtain results working within strict time frames.

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