Aerospace Quality Engineer-1 (Safran)
About The Position
The Quality Engineer helps ensure product and process quality across manufacturing operations while integrating human factors principles into safety and quality programs. Working with cross-functional teams, the engineer identifies, assesses, and mitigates risks related to human performance, error management, and safety culture. The role promotes a quality mindset, teamwork, and continuous improvement. The engineer owns quality for a workshop area, manages its quality KPIs, presents relevant data, and leads cross-functional status and action meetings. The role also supports training, audits, Gemba walks, product and process audits, anomaly analysis, non-conformity treatment, and non-quality cost reduction. It leads root-cause investigations and corrective actions, maintains problem-solving records, and contributes expertise in error prevention, risk analysis, safety case development, lean, 5S, and the Safety Management System. Other related duties may be assigned.
Requirements
- Four-year technical degree in Engineering, Quality, Human Factors, or a related field; a combination of military experience and experience may be considered in lieu of a technical degree.
- At least 3 years of experience in quality engineering within aerospace or a relevant industry.
- Must be a US Person.
- FAA Part 145 MRO experience.
- Knowledge of human factors engineering, ergonomics, or safety management.
- Experience with Safety Management Systems and regulatory requirements such as FAA, EASA, and AS9100.
- Proven ability to lead root cause investigations and implement robust corrective actions.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and team collaboration skills.
Nice To Haves
- Certification in Human Factors, Quality Engineering, or Six Sigma.
Responsibilities
- Own a workshop area and manage its Quality KPIs.
- Collect and display relevant data in a usable format to support workshop quality improvement.
- Lead cross-functional ritual meetings to communicate status and potential actions.
- Integrate human factors principles into quality assurance, safety investigations, and process reviews.
- Participate in or lead on-the-job training on root cause analysis and good practices.
- Participate in internal and external audits and pilot actions resulting from audit findings in a timely manner.
- Conduct Gemba walks in the applicable area.
- Conduct product and process audits and detect anomalies.
- Participate in analysis of detected anomalies and support improvement initiatives.
- Manage non-conformity treatment on the shop floor and train technicians in their daily role.
- Assist technicians with difficult or non-standard issues and use technical standards and appropriate interfaces to support non-conformity disposition.
- Support detection, characterization, and root cause analysis of non-quality costs, and drive improvements to prevent recurrence.
- Use root cause and corrective action tools, including Ishikawa, 5 Whys, and 8D.
- Lead cross-functional teams to determine root causes and implement effective corrective action plans and permanent solutions.
- Document and update the problem-solving database to ensure clear and timely closure of actions.
- Provide expertise in error prevention, risk analysis, and safety case development to enhance the Safety Management System.
- Support and communicate continuous improvement, lean, 5S, and the “Stop at First Defect” Quality Culture.
- Perform other related duties as required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
