Quality Engineer

Job Summary

In this role you will be responsible for providing program quality support to the Land Electronics Integrated Project Team (IPT) in Melbourne, FL. Create, maintain, and deploy quality planning activities that translate customer requirements into planned activities to ensure the delivery of product that meet customer's requirements.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for assisting with quality system development and supporting product quality improvements
• Develop, maintain and deploy quality plans and activities that translate customer requirements into planned activities
• Ability to work independently under supervision of others
• Perform analyses of program requirements and prepare responsive quality plans, procedures, schedules and resource allocations to assure optimum quality support
• Review and approve engineering/test and contractor documentation and provide input to assure that appropriate quality requirements are addressed
• Gather, organize, monitor, analyze and report on information on products and processes
• Provide ongoing quality system support to include performing internal audits, ensuring implementation of root cause corrective actions
• Participate on product quality improvement teams, Material Review Boards and Failure Review Boards
• Evaluate and dispose of non-conforming material
• Provide technical support for Assembly/Test/Inspection personnel to include executing workmanship improvement plans, developing inspection methods and criteria, specifying appropriate sampling plans, interpreting and revising specifications, and processing non-conforming materials
• Assist in resolving customer quality issues
• Initiate and drive root cause and corrective action on process and product quality issues
• Assist in deploying SPC initiatives
• Communicate clearly (written and oral) with other company personnel and the customer as required
• Ability to work independently under supervision of others
• Attend appropriate customer, business or program meetings
• Prepare quality engineering reports and recommendations
• Provide regular reporting of progress and status
• Completion of assigned task on time and meeting technical requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience
• Novice technical expertise and application domain knowledge
• Basic knowledge of ISO Standards, Six Sigma tools, lean and statistics
• Ability to understand military specifications and to read blueprints
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and writing skills
• Ability to define problems and drive to root cause and effective corrective action
• Experience in GD & T fundamentals
• ASQ certification a plus
• Specialties may include:
      Mechanical Engineering
      Supplier Quality Engineering