Quality Engineer

Verify • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

The Quality Engineer defines and implements quality assurance solutions for complex issues, ensuring product reliability and performance meet requirements. The role analyzes reports and defective products to identify trends and recommend corrective actions. It supports quality system compliance by reviewing customer quality documentation requirements, ensuring supplier compliance, and working with customers to obtain deviation approvals.

The engineer qualifies sub-detail components by reviewing supplier First Article Inspection (FAI) documentation, checking it against requirements, obtaining missing documentation, and coordinating third-party material validation when needed. When a quality escape is identified, the engineer works with Engineering and customers to determine its scope and disposition options.

The position plans and implements quality assurance programs for customer orders and coordinates quality activities with customers, suppliers, and third-party oversight bodies. It develops and improves standardized quality processes, supports compliance with customer, regulatory, and code requirements, and provides quality expertise across assigned programs. The role is an ongoing contract, scheduled for 40 hours per week, at $35 per hour.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in Quality Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Aerospace experience.
• Familiarity with Model Based Definition.
• Strong understanding of CMM report data.

Responsibilities

• Plan and implement quality assurance programs for customer orders, including inspection plans, measurement methods, recording forms, quality systems, PPAP key quality elements, statistical process methods, and customer quality data packages.
• Coordinate quality activities with customers, suppliers, and third-party oversight bodies.
• Review contractual requirements in specifications and drawings, focusing on quality requirements, and lead development of customer acceptance compliance matrices.
• Lead the adoption of improved quality assurance techniques and processes and make key processes visible.
• Own and monitor processes within the assigned area of responsibility.
• Create and improve standardized quality processes and ensure quality and regulatory compliance with documented procedures.
• Provide subject matter expertise to internal and external customers and suppliers, respond to requests, and resolve issues.
• Assist other departments in establishing standards that support product quality.
• Review and approve drawings in accordance with ANSI/ASME Y14.5M 2009, as well as routings, specifications, procedures, and related project documents.
• Prepare detailed quality assurance inputs for project documents.
• Translate customer, regulatory, and code requirements into manufacturing work instructions, quality engineering instructions, and control plans.
• Review, revise, or write inspection procedures.
• Perform internal process surveillances and audits.
• Conduct root cause and corrective action (RCCA) analysis and closure for customer returns associated with assigned programs.
• Review, evaluate, and respond to customer correspondence.
• Support in-process hold and witness points at the facility.
• Participate in preparing and maintaining quality program manuals and departmental and divisional procedures.
• Generate, review, and process quality nonconformities; conduct containment, obtain disposition, evaluate root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Prepare program quality inspection plans in conjunction with manufacturing routers and identify potential project quality issues.
• Review supplier FAI documentation, validate it against requirements, obtain missing documentation, and coordinate third-party material validation when necessary.
• Work with Engineering and customers to establish the scope and disposition options for identified quality escapes.
• Review customer quality documentation requirements, ensure supplier compliance, and work with customers to obtain deviation approvals.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level