Quality Engineer (Assurance)

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.