Senior Operations Quality Engineer
About The Position
Raytheon is seeking a Senior Operations Quality Engineer with hands-on hardware quality experience to join the Circuit Card Manufacturing Common Process Operations Quality team. The team assures product and process quality, emphasizing product compliance, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement. The position is onsite in Andover, Massachusetts, and does not provide relocation assistance. The engineer will use factory performance data and future demand to identify improvement opportunities, work with shop floor personnel and manufacturing defect-prevention teams, and lead compliance resolution and corrective-action activities. The role also involves process observations, APQP initiatives, and integrating product and process verifications across value-stream processes. An active and transferable U.S. government-issued security clearance is required before the start date; the posting also states that the candidate must be able to obtain an interim clearance. U.S. citizenship is required. The stated salary range is $95,500–$181,700. Eligible benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, a 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, an employee assistance program, the Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, holidays, and incentive compensation programs.
Requirements
- Typically, a bachelor's degree in a STEM field and 5 years of quality or manufacturing engineering experience, or an advanced degree and 3 years of quality or manufacturing engineering experience.
- Experience with First Article Inspection reports (FAIRs), quality monitoring, and leading short- and long-term root-cause corrective actions in a cross-functional, matrixed environment.
- Experience developing and using quality metrics to identify root causes and drive long-term corrective action, and identifying and instituting perceptive verifications.
- Manufacturing process knowledge and experience with quality systems and industry technical standards such as ISO 9001, AS9100, and/or AS9102.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.
Nice To Haves
- Strong familiarity with J-STD-001, ISO 9001, AS9100, AS9201, Six Sigma, Customer Oriented Results and Excellence (CORE), or Lean experience and tools, and ASQ certifications.
- Ability to facilitate cross-functional teams in systematic improvement activities such as Six Sigma and lean manufacturing.
- Experience with APQP/AS9145 and tools such as PPAP, Key Characteristics, DFMEA, PFMEA, and/or control plans.
- Experience with SAP/PRISM or another Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tool.
- Previous experience with circuit card assembly processes.
Responsibilities
- Establish baseline factory metrics, including scrap, rework, and first-pass yield; identify leading drivers and use future demand to find improvement opportunities.
- Engage and support shop floor personnel and manufacturing defect-prevention teams to align on priorities using baseline data and future forecasts.
- Drive and facilitate compliance resolution, containment, root cause analysis, and corrective-action implementation, verification, and validation.
- Conduct process walks and operator observations, and lead manufacturing team discussions to improve processes and reduce variation.
- Lead Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) initiatives, including PFMEA, control plans, and statistical process control, using baseline metrics and future demand to prevent defects.
- Integrate product and process verifications, including First Article Inspection reports and audits, throughout value-stream processes.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available, depending on position level and collective-bargaining coverage.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
