Quality Engineer

Howmet Aerospace • Laporte, IN

10d • 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 aerospace customers. The Quality Engineer provides leadership and guidance to implement process improvement and support operational excellence. The role applies quality systems, promotes disciplined processes and standardization of best practices, and uses key performance metrics to assess business-system health and effectiveness. It also builds cross-functional relationships to encourage proactive engagement and productive customer relationships.

The position includes reviewing purchase orders and specifications, advocating for customer requirements, improving processes, and ensuring customer verification documentation is completed and submitted. The Quality Engineer assesses business systems against customer and industry standards, coordinates audit and corrective/preventive action systems, supports problem solving, and links quality objectives to business objectives. The role requires working with internal and external customers and willingness to travel domestically and internationally less than 25% of the time.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.
• Three years of quality experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.
• Ability to lawfully obtain access to export-controlled items.
• Ability to work independently with little to no guidance and multitask in a demanding environment.
• Practical understanding of manufacturing processes and production operations, including manufacturing, inspection, engineering, and customer interaction.
• Quantitative and qualitative problem-solving skills, including corrective and preventive action capabilities.
• Business acumen, including understanding financials, quality’s financial impact, and A3 thinking.
• Ability to link, monitor, and improve quality objectives in alignment with business objectives.
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing, verbally, and nonverbally; listen and maintain professionalism.
• Basic computer skills.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally less than 25% of the time.
• Ability to comply with EHS rules for the work environment.

Nice To Haves

• Three years of relevant manufacturing audit experience as a General Auditor.
• Experience with AS9100.
• Experience and proficiency with ISO 9000 and/or AS9100, statistical tools and techniques, APQP, and Measurement System Analysis.
• Understanding of non-destructive validation methods such as visual, x-ray, and penetrant inspection, and Nadcap where required.
• Understanding of GD&T.
• Demonstrated internal auditing skills.
• 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 customer advocate and voice of the customer.
• Lead process improvement by reviewing, disposing of, and eliminating material review, concessions, corrective and preventive actions, and escapes.
• Ensure customer verification is complete, including FAIR, and submitted to the customer.
• Assess business-system health against customer and industry standards through internal audits and corrective/preventive action management.
• Build internal and external relationships to foster engagement, influence, and customer connections.
• Apply proactive problem-solving and corrective/preventive action methods to identify and address issues.
• Analyze manufacturing problems, facilitate problem-solving activities, and connect quality objectives to business objectives.
• Coordinate, develop, and execute corrective, preventive, systemic action, and process-improvement activities.
• Apply customer specifications and drawings with least-cost implementation and no over-processing.
• Read blueprints and flow down customer requirements; interface with customers and support deployment of their requirements.
• Perform internal audits and understand applicable regulatory requirements and non-destructive validation methods.
• Communicate and present effectively across organizational levels, while working with internal and external customers.
• Comply with EHS rules and perform other duties as assigned.
• Be willing to travel domestically and internationally less than 25% of the time.

Benefits

• Health insurance 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%, for potential total retirement contributions of up to 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