Quality Engineer

Howmet Aerospace • Laporte, IN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Howmet Aerospace is seeking a Quality Engineer for its investment casting facility in La Porte, Indiana, which supplies jet engine components to the aerospace industry. The Quality Engineer provides leadership and guidance to implement process improvements and support operational excellence. The role applies quality-systems knowledge, promotes adherence to disciplined systems and robust processes, standardizes best practices, and monitors key performance metrics to assess business-system health and effectiveness. The Quality Engineer also builds cross-functional relationships to foster proactive engagement across business operations and productive relationships with customers.

The position leads purchase-order and specification reviews, including customer-requirement negotiation, advanced product quality planning, and translating requirements for operators. It serves as a customer advocate, drives improvement in material review, concessions, corrective and preventive actions, and escapes, and ensures customer verification, such as FAIRs, is completed and submitted. The role assesses business systems against customer and industry standards through internal audits and corrective/preventive action management, facilitates problem solving, and connects quality objectives to business objectives. Domestic and international travel of less than 25% is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited institution.
• At least two years of quality experience in a manufacturing environment.
• General Auditor (Internal): two audits totaling ten audit days within the past three years, or five years of relevant audit experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience coordinating, developing, and executing corrective/preventive/systemic actions and process-improvement activities.
• Practical understanding of manufacturing processes and production operations involving manufacturing, inspection, engineering, and customer interaction.
• Problem-solving and corrective/preventive action skills, with a proactive approach to anticipating problems.
• Ability to multitask in a demanding environment and work independently with little to no guidance.
• Ability to apply problem-solving methodologies to positively affect business objectives.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization and work with internal and external customers; strong written, verbal, non-verbal, listening, and presentation skills.
• Ability to maintain professionalism and work constructively through issues.
• Basic computer skills.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally less than 25%.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; employment eligibility will be verified at hire.
• Must be able to lawfully obtain access to export-controlled items; employment offers are conditioned on this ability. Visa sponsorship is unavailable.

Nice To Haves

• Experience and proficiency with ISO 9000 and/or AS9100.
• Knowledge of statistical tools and techniques, APQP, and Measurement System Analysis.
• Understanding of non-destructive validation methods, such as visual inspection, x-ray, and penetrant testing, and Nadcap, if required.
• Understanding of GD&T.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements.
• Advanced computer skills can be learned.
• Demonstrates high ethical standards, makes data- and fact-based decisions, displays business savvy and a bias for action, and acts as a mentor and coach.

Responsibilities

• Lead purchase-order and specification reviews, including negotiation of customer requirements, advanced product quality planning, and translation of requirements to operator level.
• Act as the voice of the customer and maintain effective customer relationships.
• Lead process improvement efforts to review, disposition, and eliminate material review, concessions, corrective/preventive actions, and escapes.
• Ensure customer verification, including FAIRs, is completed and submitted to the customer.
• Assess business-system health against customer and industry standards through internal audits and corrective/preventive action management.
• Develop internal and external relationships to achieve engagement, influence, and customer connections.
• Analyze manufacturing problems and facilitate problem-solving activities using practical knowledge of manufacturing processes.
• Link, monitor, and improve quality objectives in relation to company business objectives.
• Coordinate, develop, and execute corrective, preventive, systemic-action, and process-improvement activities.
• Apply customer specifications and drawings with a least-cost approach and avoid over-processing.
• Read blueprints and flow down customer requirements; interface with customers and deploy their requirements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Comply with EHS rules required for the work environment.
• Travel domestically and internationally as required, less than 25%.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage beginning on the first day of employment.
• 401(k) plan with a company contribution of 3% of eligible compensation and a 100% match on employee contributions up to 6%; total retirement contributions may reach 15% of eligible compensation.
• 13 company-paid holidays each year.
• Annual paid time off (PTO).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level