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Job Title: Lead, Quality Engineering

Job Number: 33418

Job Location: Mason, OH

Job Schedule: 9/80

Clearance: Must Have the Ability to Obtain and Maintain a Department of War Security Clearance

Job Description:

As a Quality Engineer you will contribute to the success of the team, extended program team and the business. In this role you will engage in data-driven improvement and sustainment initiatives. Additionally, you will design, write, implement, evaluate, and revise quality assurance procedures, statistical sampling techniques, quality plans, inspection and testing techniques and specifications. The Quality Engineer will work both independently and along team members to provide thorough and practical solutions to a wide range of electrical, electro-optical, mechanical and technical problems. This role will also lead the administration of Quality system tools (i.e TIPQA). Successful candidates will have experience utilizing Lean Green Belt techniques and various other quality engineering tools.

Essential Functions:

• Implement, interpret, and utilize metrics toward process improvement activities.
• Lead teams and perform investigations to drive CAPA for nonconformance, as well as actively participate in material review. Act as the Quality Subject Matter Expert (SME) on program and design teams.
• Generate and deploy Green Belt tools to act as indicators of quality of items produced and health of the process. Analyze metrics and indicators to determine opportunities for improvement. Early detection and resolution of nonconformance is a key requirement in this role.
• Interpret and flow down customer quality requirements to programs, engineering, manufacturing, and inspection via Program Quality Requirements (PQR).
• Interface effectively and successfully with customers to discuss and negotiate quality requirements and specifications.
• Understand risk and risk management as an essential part of the quality engineering work scope.
• Utilize sense of urgency to act to prevent or correct problems with products and post-delivery defects.
• Assist in process improvement and process problem solutions on the factory floor.
• Perform quality engineering functions for specific phases of projects and programs to develop plans, flow charts, inspection methods, procedures and standards, including FAI, detailed instructions, check lists, sampling plans, classification of defects, etc.; to assure all products, data or services meet specified quality requirements.
• Review Engineering and Manufacturing information on new and revised designs, specifications and bills of materials; production, tool and test equipment drawings; production and tool plans; operations and routing sheets: production, storage and shipping methods, and to assure that products meet customers' requirements.
• Act as the administrator of TIPQA and/or other quality system tools including deploying standard processes and training.
• Effectively interface and collaborate with Supplier Quality Engineering in customer flow-down and to solve vendor quality problems.
• Apply effective interpretation and application of Quality Standards, such as AS9100, IS)-9001, J-Stds, etc.
• Effectively work as a cost account manager for the quality engineering elements of the program work breakdown structure.
  • Perform Quality trainings for employees

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and 9 years of Quality Engineering experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of Quality Engineering experience
• In lieu fo a degree, a combination of 13 years of Quality Engineer, Electrical, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineer experience.
• 9 years or more experience in reading and interpreting electrical and mechanical drawings of complex nature.
• 9 years or more experience with problem-solving tools such as 8D, Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, and CAPA.
• 9 years or more experience in working and communicating effectively in a team environment.
• 9 years or more experience working in a dynamic environment with multiple and changing priorities.
• Deltek TIPQA Administation Experience
• Must be a United States Citizen.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Lean Manufacturing and Green Belt Certification
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Technical Discipline
• Aerospace or Defense Manufacturing experience.
• A working familiarity of AS9100, ISO9001, J-STD Workmanship, ANSI J-Standards (Class 3) and IPC Workmanship Standards (Class 3) and TipQA
• Familiarity with CMMI Level 3
• ASQ^® Certified Quality Engineer Certificate
• Electrical, Mechanical Engineering and Electro-Optical experience
• Familiarity with complex mechanical inspection and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing.

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