About this role
Key Responsibilities
- Assess client root-cause analyses and containment strategies for adequacy and rigor; disposition each as adequate, needs strengthening, or requires re-analysis.
- Prioritize the corrective-action portfolio by customer impact, Boeing due date, and recurrence/severity risk; maintain a prioritized RCCA register that drives the working cadence.
- Lead failure-mechanism analysis using SQA’s proprietary RCCA methodology and toolset; confirm root and contributing causes, identify controls over high-risk mechanisms, and assess the measurement system.
- Develop sustainable corrective action plans with clear controls to determine effectiveness of the solution.
- Responsible for clear communication to client and SQA leadership including upkeep of dashboard, due-date tracking, risk and blocker escalation, and weekly and monthly reporting.
- Prepare and support customer corrective-action response packages (e.g., 8D via SQIS) and manage customer rejections and resubmittals through approval.
- Capture analyses in the SQA RCCA toolset and export deliverables in the formats the client and customer require (Boeing 8D, STEPQ, Word, Excel, PDF).
- Partner with client Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, Planning, and Document Control to advance actions while respecting client ownership of implementation, disposition, and customer status outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent quality-engineering experience.
- Minimum 5 years in quality engineering or supplier quality within aerospace, defense, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated hands-on root-cause and corrective-action experience using structured methods (8D, 5-Why, fishbone/Ishikawa).
- Working knowledge of AS9100 and experience authoring and closing formal corrective actions to a major OEM customer.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple concurrent corrective actions to schedule.
- Strong technical writing; able to produce audit-ready and customer-ready analyses and responses.
- Able to work onsite at the client facility in Everett, WA, with travel to client site(s) as required.