Quality Engineer (Assurance)

Summary:

We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Quality Engineer to join our team, where you will play a critical role in ensuring the integrity and excellence of our products and processes. This position is responsible for monitoring and improving quality systems across the plant, supporting customer-specific initiatives, and driving continuous improvement through root cause analysis and corrective actions. The ideal candidate will bring a strong background in manufacturing and quality management systems, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across departments and with external stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

- Monitors the quality receiving and production program to ensure conformity of
purchased material and final products to quality standards.

- Responsible for specific processes and/or customer products with regard to overall quality requirements and improvements.

- Supports all areas of the plant regarding all aspects of product quality and quality
system applications.

- Devises, designs, or develops forms and instructions for recording, evaluating, and
reporting quality and reliability data.

- Designs and develops Quality system procedures and instructions.

- Supports Return Material Analysis/MRB as needed or directed to determine root cause and apply effective corrective actions.

- Performs root cause analysis and implements corrective actions to address quality issues.

- Strong ability to solve problems and prevent/reduce waste using quality tools, such as: Ranking/Pareto analysis, cost of quality indicators, statistical tools,
capability analysis, Cause and Effect, 8D, 5 WHYs, etc.

- Meets with vendors, customers, quality representatives, and company personnel to
discuss and resolve quality problems as required.

- Meets with customers to implement, manage and drive customer specific initiatives, including supporting additional locations where necessary to implement lessons learned and process expertise for customer specific requirements.

- Supports quality related audits as needed.

- Ability to communicate orally and produce written documents with clearly organized
thoughts using proper terminology with all levels of employees and customer
organizations.

- Supports/trains workers engaged in measuring and testing products and tabulating data concerning materials, products, or process quality and reliability.

- Develops training documents and presentations.

- Supports risk analysis / PFMEA development through cross functional group.

- Ability to interface with customers, respond to their concerns, and to verify effective
results in an expedient manner.

- Ability to coordinate First Article Inspections and support as needed.

- Ensures that we maintain a team atmosphere and work collaboratively with additional departments to support quality related efforts.

- Minimal travel as needed

- Performs other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements:

- BS Engineering or Material Science preferred or equivalent combination of experience and education in similar fields.

- Manufacturing experience with broad process knowledge.

- Strong experience working in an ISO9000/ AS9100/ quality management system
organization.

- Familiar with basic inspection and Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing.
American Society for Quality Certified Quality Engineer preferred or equivalent
AS9100 Auditor Training.

- Customer Specific Delegation Training.

- Strong experience with Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office
products, including Excel, PowerPoint and Visio.

- Strong experience working with customers.

- Strong communication skills (written/oral).

- The ability to deal with multiple priorities and make decisions independently.

- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States due to ITAR requirements for defense products.