Sr. Specialist, Quality Engineer
L3Harris · Canoga Park, CA
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $96k–$178k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 6+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 9 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior quality role at L3Harris (aerospace & defense) in Canoga Park, CA. By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that L3Harris Technologies may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the.
- They ask for
- 6+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, APQP
- Base pay
- $96k–$178k
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $100k–$153k. This one lists $96k–$178k.
Median of the low and high ends of 117 live postings that list pay, out of 227 quality engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 226 other live quality postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 10% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (6+ vs 5+)
Typical $100k–$149k, from 113 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 75%
- FMEA 49%
- Supplier quality 44%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 42%
- AS9100 41%
- ISO 9001 35%
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- 1
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- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
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This plant: L3Harris in Canoga Park
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Full description from L3HarrisAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Essential Functions
- ◆Utilizes engineering background and expertise to ensure customer requirement flow-down and hardware is compliant to specifications. Handles and communicates deviations/non-conformances at different levels within the organization and at customer level as applicable. Prepares comprehensive analyses, procedures, reports and presentations for both internal and external customers.
- ◆Actively participates in improvement teams to reduce risk through the application of six sigma tools. Applies zero defects quality principles, concepts and methods, including Lean Manufacturing to continuously improve processes, reduce cost and ensure the quality of our products and services.
- ◆Drives corrective and preventative action activity both in-house and at the Supplier, and provides corrective action board support to manage timely and effective problem closure and recurrence control.
- ◆Interprets engineering drawings and specifications, customer quality
requirements
and company quality
requirements
to ensure compliance with the customer's requirements. Participates in design reviews to identify and correct inspectability and producibility issues and opportunities early in the product life cycle. Provides a clear and concise flow down of product definition and Quality
requirements
to Suppliers.
- ✓Actively participates in the Material Review Board, including segregation and control of nonconforming hardware to preclude inadvertent processing, disposition nonconforming hardware, preparing for and conducting board meetings, and implementing disposition decisions.
- ✓Ability to obtain a US Secret Clearance.
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior related quality experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related quality experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related quality experience.
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L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.
Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Quality Engineering
Job Location: Onsite at our Canoga Park, CA facility
Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Specialist, Quality Engineer to join our team in Canoga Park, CA. This individual will provide program Quality Engineering support for assigned contracted programs spanning the lifecycle of the program including design, development, production, test and supplier support.
Preferred Additional Skills
- +Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- +Strong interpersonal skills.
- +Strong mentoring/teaching ability.
- +Ability to analyze, evaluate and develop solutions to a variety of situations.
- +Must consistently meet commitments.
- +Advanced degree in a related field.
- +CQE and/or CMQ/OE and/or CSSBB.
- +APQP and or Zero Defect Planning Experience.
- +EVM familiarity.
- +BOE Experience.
- +Experienced with the use of Power BI.