Quality Assurance Engineer, Aerospace - Huntsville, AL

BASF Catalysts•Huntsville, AL

10d•$105,000 - $125,000•Onsite

About The Position

BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS) is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer for its Aerospace division in Huntsville, AL. This role is responsible for executing and improving the Quality Management System and driving product quality across manufacturing and MRO operations. The position ensures compliance with regulatory, customer, and internal requirements, while also focusing on systemic issue resolution, process performance improvement, and supplier quality effectiveness. The Aerospace Business in ECMS produces ozone and ozone/VOC converters for aircraft and services these products through MRO facilities. The role reports to the Global Quality Manager of Aerospace and collaborates with Engineering, Operations, and Supply Chain. This is an onsite position in Huntsville, AL, with approximately 10% travel.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, or related technical discipline required.
5+ years of experience with aerospace quality systems required, including AS9100.
Demonstrated experience managing Quality Management Systems, including audits, CAPA, document control, and continuous improvement processes required.
Experience with process performance monitoring, including statistical process control (SPC), control plans, and variation reduction methodologies required.
Strong understanding of root cause analysis methodologies and corrective action effectiveness validation.
Ability to work cross-functionally with Engineering, Operations, and Supply Chain while maintaining clarity of roles and responsibilities.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and process discipline.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with FAA Part 145 and/or MRO environments preferred.
Experience with Management of Change (MOC) processes in regulated manufacturing or MRO environments preferred.
Experience with supplier quality processes, including corrective action management (SCAR), supplier audits, and supplier quality performance monitoring preferred.
Experience working in a regulated manufacturing and/or repair environment preferred.
Experience working in a global or multi-site environment preferred.

Responsibilities

Functioning as the execution owner of the Quality Management System, driving compliance with AS9100, FAA Part 145, and internal quality processes, ensuring procedures are controlled, implemented, and effective across all operations.
Supporting the internal audit program by planning, executing, and coordinating audits to verify compliance, identify risks, and drive continuous improvement.
Managing the CAPA process, including initiation, root cause analysis, tracking, and validation of corrective and preventive actions.
Leading customer complaints and escape investigations, coordinating cross-functional investigations, ensuring containment, identifying root causes, and driving corrective actions to closure.
Partnering with the Global Quality Manager and Engineering to execute the MRB process, ensuring nonconformances are accurately documented, tracked, triaged, and progressed in a timely and compliant manner.
Driving process performance monitoring, ensuring SPC, control plans, and process capability monitoring are actively implemented and maintained.
Governing Management of Change (MOC) processes, ensuring changes are properly executed, risk-assessed, documented, and implemented, including verification that associated documentation, control plans, and procedures are updated.
Supporting document control governance, ensuring procedures, work instructions, and quality records are properly maintained, version-controlled, and compliant.
Owning execution of the supplier quality system, managing supplier corrective actions (SCAR), tracking supplier quality issues, and ensuring supplier-related nonconformances are integrated into CAPA and continuous improvement processes.
Collaborating with Supply Chain to support supplier performance management by providing quality data, validating corrective actions, and ensuring supplier quality risks are identified and mitigated.
Utilizing data-driven analysis to actively monitor and analyze key quality metrics including audit findings, CAPA effectiveness, escape trends, supplier quality performance, MRB data, and process capability to drive corrective actions and continuous improvement.
Supporting alignment between HSV and Shanghai quality systems, ensuring consistency in the application of quality processes while accommodating site-specific regulatory and operational requirements.