Quality Engineer
Airbus Americas · Kinston, NC
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Travel
- 5%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at Airbus Americas (aerospace & defense) in Kinston, NC. To implement and maintain the Company Quality System and to ensure product and process quality/integrity meets appropriate regulatory/customer requirements.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, FMEA, Control plans, Assembly lines
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage · about 5% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 26, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in North Carolina: typical posted base $97k–$143k.
Median of the low and high ends of 17 live postings that list pay, out of 45 quality engineer openings in North Carolina, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 44 other live quality postings in North Carolina.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $97k–$143k, from 16 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 62%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 40%
- Supplier quality 40%
- New product launch 40%
- PPAP 40%
- ✓ Control plans 40%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Assembly lines, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Airbus Americas in Kinston
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Full description from Airbus AmericasAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
to develop or modify methods, procedures, and metrics for achieving quality standards
- ✓Evaluates and provides dispositions for nonconforming materials, parts, and equipment
- ✓Conducts scientific evaluations, audits, and analyses
- ✓Tests and approves products, processes, equipment, and measurement systems
- ✓Ensures processes incorporate configuration management and participates in design and product reviews to meet quality, reliability, safety, and business objectives
- ✓Conducts research, benchmarking, and analysis to improve process capability and product quality
- ✓Performs root cause analyses and supports corrective action implementation to address nonconformance issues
- ✓Interfaces with employees, suppliers, customers, and regulatory agencies to ensure compliance with
requirements
- ✓Utilizes statistical methodologies to maintain or enhance safety, reliability, and process capability levels
Additional
Responsibilities
- ◆Other duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Experienced and enthusiast by industrial asset and technologies
- ✓Interested by composite technologies
Physical
Requirements
- ✓Onsite: 100 %
- ✓Vision: Daily able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings.
- ✓Hearing: Daily able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on production floor including safety warnings or alarms.
- ✓Speaking: Daily able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications.
- ✓Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): Able to operate most office and persona
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Job Description
Airbus Aerosystems Kinston is looking for a Quality Engineer to join our Engineering Department based in Kinston, NC.
Our Engineers have the privilege of working on complex, highly engineered machines and are involved at all stages of the aircraft life cycle, from product development to manufacturing and direct support to our airline customers. If you’re interested in designing, creating, and testing the present and future of Airbus products across the globe, join our mission to connect the world.
Meet the Team
Our team at Airbus Aerosystems Kinston manufactures crucial aircraft components. On the shop floor you’ll be surrounded by individuals who are passionate about aviation and skilled in areas like electrical, structure and quality. Join our team and help build the next generation of aircraft.
Your Working Environment
The Airbus Aerosystems Kinston facility sits at the forefront of aerospace manufacturing, specializing in the production of large, advanced composite aerostructures. Our team builds critical components for the state-of-the-art Airbus A350 XWB, including the composite center fuselage and wing spar.
To implement and maintain the Company Quality System and to ensure product and process quality/integrity meets appropriate regulatory/customer requirements. The employee will support the production activities related to the section 15 of A350 composite Assembly Line. As part of the Aviation Safety and Quality organization, the employee will be responsible for activity related to the expertise on product process and failure analysis with operational process surveillance.
How We Care for You
Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a paid parental leave program.
Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path; as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programs; and both national and international mobility.
Your Challenges
- •Develops processes, systems, and equipment to uphold quality, reliability, and system safety standards for company or procured products and services
- •Performing Problem-Solving (PPS):
- •Perform root cause analyses. Recommends and supports the implementation of corrective actions that are necessary to reduce or eliminate nonconformance to design specifications.
- •Has the capability to work with the team and develop Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis ( PFMEA) and control Plan.
- •Provides review and analysis of quality system design to ensure the integrity of decisions impacting products and services
- •Analyzes contractual, product definition, and specification
Your Boarding Pass
- •Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from an ABET-accredited Engineering program
- •3-5 years of experience in aerospace, quality, engineering or related role
- •Proficiency in technical writing
- •Proficient in root cause corrective action (RCCA)
- •Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- •Ability to articulate complex issues to others.
- •Ability to maintain confidentiality in all matters is essential.
- •Demonstrated effectiveness in interpersonal skills.