Quality Assurance Engineer

Armtec Defense Technologies•Lillington, NC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Engineer is part of an internal Integrated Product Team (IPT) of manufacturing, engineering, Program Management, and support staff (Maintenance, Purchasing, etc.). The Quality Engineer participates in all areas of Armtec’s Quality Management System (QMS) and provides systems support for the various quality functions including contract and purchase order review, interpretation of contractual quality requirements and plans for compliance, data collection and analysis, and preparation of quality management system documentation. The Quality Engineer designs and manages process improvement projects as team leader and facilitator, and they support Armtec's continual improvement efforts including ISO 9001:2008, internal audits Lean Six Sigma, and Statistical Process Control (SPC).

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree, preferably in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Manufacturing.
One to five years’ experience in Quality Engineering or comparable work experience.
Knowledge of Government specifications, contracts, and ISO 9001:2008 requirements.
Knowledge of management systems for improving quality, i.e. benchmarking, projectmanagement, six-sigma, experimental design.
Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing tools and Statistical Process Control (SPC).
Must be dependable, responsible, accurate and have the ability to deal with people effectively.
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any requiredauthorization from the U.S. Government

Responsibilities

Customer point of contact for all quality topics for assigned programs. Maintain excellent customer relations.
Manages and supervises direct report quality inspectors for assigned programs.
SPC training monitoring and implementation.
Primary technical Quality point of contact for Program(s) IPT.
Lead in process improvements and executions (8Ds, RCA, DMAIC, FMEAs, DOEs/Data Analysis,and recommendations. Drives prevention of defects versus control by evaluating scrap data andprogram performance.
RFQ/RFE review and support: review of requirements on new or existing products. Provides costinputs to meet requirements and technical knowledge for where items need to be updated.
Prepares programs for products start up and verification of ability to meet requirements. This includescreating First Article Plan/Test Reports Inspection Plans, AIEs, MSEs and TDPLs.
Point of contact of LATR/LATS or in process DCMA inspections.
Prepares RFVs/ECPs and reviews drawings for accuracy-quality related.
Creates methods of data collection and statistical analysis. Present data for evaluation andrecommendations.
Conducts in process audits of steps and inspection. Reports out on findings and corrections asneeded.
New equipment/materials design validation, to make certain customer requirements are being met.
Updates Inspection Plan, FAAT Plans, AIEs/MSEs and other related program document requirements(SDRLS/CDRLS).
Review and approval of final shipment packets/LATRs and final ADC and approvals, assembly asneeded, including WARP and WAWF review.
Updates SPC charts and develops new ones as required.
Applies systematic problem solving and improvement concepts in a team environment to resolveproduct quality issues.
Prepares test plans for conducting experimental trials and qualification of tooling to supportimprovement efforts, including any required Management of Change (MOC) documentation, workinstructions, maintenance work orders and subsequent Capital Expense Requests (CERs).
Analyzes cost of quality and performance data to plan and deploy improvement efforts.
Provide routine, accurate reports to senior management and program team members, as required.
Reads and understands customer requirements, product drawings and specifications and providewritten interpretation for performance.
Understands, is able to generate, and oversees the timely completion of quality documentationrequired for the approval of production deliveries.
Participates in all areas of Armtec's quality management system.
Provides input in areas not specific to quality assurance but essential to Armtec’s Shared Values andteam based management structure.
Maintains the highest ethical standards, even when challenged from above.
Understands and lives by Armtec’s ethics and business conduct policies.