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.