Design Quality Engineer Staff- Level 4

Lockheed Martin•Fort Worth, TX

18h•Hybrid

About The Position

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics is seeking a full-time experienced Program Quality Engineer to perform as the Design Quality Engineer of a team of quality engineers that will execute Engineering Quality Assurance tasks on new Program Designs. Responsible for ensuring quality engineering input is accounted for and modeled appropriately in all value chains such that the total Cost of Quality (CoQ) is right-sized throughout the life of a program. Working with management, design engineering, supply chain management, manufacturing engineering, and sustainment the design quality engineer provides input to the contract review processes, requirements distillation processes, program planning processes, product design processes, product quality planning processes, supplier quality / sourcing activities, and sustainment operations. This role will need to be able to operate in both model-based and non-model-based programs. This role will need to communicate functional requirements to the 1LMX capability development teams to ensure that the quality design processes are incorporated into new business systems. Key deliverables of a Design Quality Engineer: Leverage keen knowledge of aerospace, mechanical, electrical and/or structural engineering to collaborate with design engineering throughout the design maturing and release processes to identify and define proper datum schemes, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), key characteristics, statistical tolerancing, and other requirements of concern Participate in Program Technical reviews and boards Identify and correct inspect ability issues of designs prior to engineering release Create first article inspection datasets for parts requiring first article inspection (FAI) within the product lifecycle management (PLM) system Identify inspection technology choices and options to downstream facilities and planning organizations Create and manage sampling plans and assign to relevant product characteristics so production planning can plan the details of the shop floor work instructions Use the digital thread to model impacts from expected quality performance levels on the program’s production system and schedule and coordinate changes as required to product designs or manufacturing plans. Assess programs’ readiness states against quality readiness level (QRL) gates for programs throughout their acquisition lifecycle with respect to the Design and Planning Processes The model-based quality engineer will accomplish most work and create most deliverables within the PLM (or other Engineering) system in use on the assigned program. Thus, understanding of design release processes and how the results of which are absorbed downstream are critical to performing in this role.

Requirements

Bachelors in Engineering or Related Field
Experience in Product Design and Product Design Processes
Basic GD&T training

Nice To Haves

Quality Sciences Experiences - FMEA, DOE, SPC, etc.
Performed RCCA and Continuous Improvement Projects
F-35 Product Knowledge
TeamCenter and Catia Experience
Trained in Interchangeability and Replaceability
Familiar with Engineering Design Attributes
Experience with Key Characteristics Management

Responsibilities

Leverage keen knowledge of aerospace, mechanical, electrical and/or structural engineering to collaborate with design engineering throughout the design maturing and release processes to identify and define proper datum schemes, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), key characteristics, statistical tolerancing, and other requirements of concern
Participate in Program Technical reviews and boards
Identify and correct inspect ability issues of designs prior to engineering release
Create first article inspection datasets for parts requiring first article inspection (FAI) within the product lifecycle management (PLM) system
Identify inspection technology choices and options to downstream facilities and planning organizations
Create and manage sampling plans and assign to relevant product characteristics so production planning can plan the details of the shop floor work instructions
Use the digital thread to model impacts from expected quality performance levels on the program’s production system and schedule and coordinate changes as required to product designs or manufacturing plans.
Assess programs’ readiness states against quality readiness level (QRL) gates for programs throughout their acquisition lifecycle with respect to the Design and Planning Processes