Quality Assurance Engineer

• ◆Own quality performance for assigned customer and program portfolios, serving as a primary quality interface with customers and aerospace/defense prime contractors.
• ◆Review proposals, statements of work, customer requirements, and related program documentation to help ensure alignment with design intent, quality requirements, regulatory requirements, and contractual commitments.
• ◆Partner closely with Program Management and cross-functional teams including Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, and Supplier Quality to identify, assess, and resolve quality risks.
• ◆Maintain end-to-end ownership of quality issues across customer, manufacturing, and supplier boundaries; coordinate the appropriate resources and drive issues through effective resolution.
• ◆Support first article readiness and execution, including AS9102/FAI requirements, and help ensure supplier quality

and flow-downs are understood and properly implemented.

• ✓Lead and support root cause investigation and corrective/preventive action using structured methodologies such as 5 Why, Fishbone/Ishikawa, CAPA, 8D, Apollo, or other appropriate problem-solving methods.
• ✓Support manufacturing process validation, control plans, inspection instructions, quality records, and other quality-system documentation required to demonstrate process and product compliance.
• ✓Analyze production and quality data to identify trends, systemic issues, and improvement opportunities, and use data to support sound technical and business decisions.
• ✓Participate in customer and program reviews as the quality and compliance voice for assigned programs, communicating risks, status, corrective actions, and quality performance clearly and professionally.
• ✓Exercise independent judgment and ownership in making quality decisions that may have significant customer, program, compliance, and financial impact; escalate appropriately when additional support or authority is required.
• ✓Drive continuous improvement using Lean, Six Sigma, and other appropriate quality tools and methodologies.
• ✓Build effective working relationships across functions and levels of the organization, influencing outcomes without direct authority and fostering a team-first approach to problem solving.

• ✓Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline preferred; equivalent directly relevant quality engineering experience will be considered.
• ✓Three or more years of hands-on Quality Engineering experience required; five or more years preferred.
• ✓Aerospace and defense quality experience strongly preferred. Experience in other highly regulated manufacturing environments, particularly medical device or automotive, may also be considered.

and communicate quality and compliance expectations across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, suppliers, and customers.

• ✓Strong analytical judgment, ownership, curiosity, and decision-making capability, including the confidence to make consequential decisions with appropriate escalation.
• ✓Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills; able to influence different personalities and functions without direct authority.
• ✓Positive, team-oriented, and coachable approach with a willingness to ask for help, challenge assumptions constructively, and remain engaged until issues are resolved.
• ✓No specific ERP, statistical analysis, or quality software package is required for consideration.

applicable to this position, only U.S. citizens are eligible for employment in this role.

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