Senior Quality Engineer

Beehive Industries•Loveland, OH

17d

About The Position

Beehive Industries is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead customer-facing quality activities within its Additively Enabled Castings (AEC) business, which uses additive manufacturing and casting technologies to develop and produce aerospace and defense components. The role serves as the primary quality interface for assigned customers throughout new product introduction, qualification, production launch, and recurring manufacturing. It interprets customer-specific requirements, establishes quality and qualification plans, coordinates evidence and submissions, and drives quality issues to resolution. The position partners with Engineering, Operations, and Quality Inspection. It combines technical quality-engineering work with customer communication, requiring the ability to manage complex requirements and documentation packages, communicate difficult information, and build structure in a rapidly scaling manufacturing environment. Beehive Industries provides group medical, dental, life, and short- and long-term disability coverage from day one, a 401(k) plan with company match, bonus eligibility, and company equity. The company is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive work environment and compliance with applicable anti-discrimination laws.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, manufacturing, quality, materials science, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience.
Five or more years of quality engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
Experience serving as a customer-facing quality representative or coordinating directly with customer quality organizations.
Experience interpreting engineering drawings, specifications, purchase order requirements, and customer quality clauses.
Knowledge of Advanced Product Quality Planning, Production Part Approval Process, PFMEA, control plans, and process validation.
Working knowledge of AS9100 requirements.
Experience planning, preparing, reviewing, or approving First Article Inspection and product qualification packages.
Experience with nonconformance management, containment, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and effectiveness verification.
Strong written communication, presentation, facilitation, and customer management skills.
Ability to communicate quality issues candidly while maintaining customer confidence.
Ability to coordinate and influence cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.
Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple customers, programs, part numbers, and deadlines.

Nice To Haves

Experience with castings, investment casting, additive manufacturing, machining, or other complex aerospace components.
Experience with aerospace special processes and applicable supplier or customer approval requirements.
Familiarity with NADCAP-controlled processes.
Experience managing customer deviations, concessions, escapes, and corrective-action submissions.
Working knowledge of GD&T and dimensional-inspection methods.
Experience supporting customer audits, source inspections, production-readiness reviews, and supplier-quality assessments.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary day-to-day quality contact for assigned AEC customers and build relationships with their quality, engineering, sourcing, and program representatives.
Lead customer quality reviews covering qualification status, documentation, nonconformances, escapes, corrective actions, process changes, and quality performance.
Communicate quality risks, issues, containment, investigations, and corrective actions accurately and promptly; coordinate responses to customer inquiries, concerns, complaints, and information requests.
Represent Beehive in customer audits, source inspections, qualification reviews, corrective-action meetings, and other quality engagements.
Lead quality communications concerning issues that could affect product conformity, qualification, shipment, or customer acceptance.
Partner with Manufacturing Programs to reflect quality requirements, approvals, and risks in customer commitments and program schedules; escalate unresolved issues or overdue approvals that could affect execution or customer satisfaction.
Review purchase orders, drawings, specifications, quality clauses, customer flowdowns, and contractual requirements to identify applicable quality obligations.
Translate customer requirements into internal plans, processes, deliverables, and acceptance criteria, and ensure they are flowed down to Engineering, Operations, Inspection, Sourcing, and external suppliers.
Develop and maintain program quality, qualification, control, and inspection plans, as well as customer deliverables matrices.
Establish quality milestones for new product introduction, including process validation, inspection readiness, First Article Inspection, and customer approval.
Participate in design, manufacturing-readiness, and production-readiness reviews; apply risk-based quality-planning tools to identify potential product and process failures.
Support Advanced Product Quality Planning and Production Part Approval activities when required by customers.
Evaluate changes to drawings, specifications, materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, equipment, suppliers, or facilities to determine customer notification or approval requirements.
Lead the planning, coordination, review, and submission of customer qualification and quality-documentation packages, including First Article Inspection and product qualification submissions.
Coordinate required manufacturing and process readiness documentation, material and process certifications, certificates of conformance, shipment records, process change notifications, deviation and waiver requests, corrective-action evidence, source inspection records, traceability, and customer-specific forms or portal submissions.
Review customer submission packages for technical completeness, consistency, traceability, approval, and revision alignment; submit or authorize submissions through customer-designated systems.
Control and retain customer quality records so they are traceable and audit ready; develop standardized templates, workflows, and review practices to improve accuracy and scalability.
Lead or support containment for customer complaints, product escapes, and internal nonconformances.
Coordinate cross-functional root-cause investigations using structured problem-solving methods; develop and manage corrective and preventive action plans, addressing systemic causes and ensuring timely completion.
Prepare and present customer corrective-action responses, and coordinate deviations, concessions, and nonconformance submissions requiring customer review or approval.
Analyze defect, escape, rejection, return, and corrective-action data to identify trends and improvement priorities; incorporate lessons learned into quality plans, control plans, work instructions, inspection methods, and future launches.
Develop and maintain customer quality dashboards and performance reporting; lead cross-functional improvement efforts addressing recurring product, process, and documentation issues.
Support internal audits and assessments related to customer-specific and program quality requirements.
Coach employees on customer requirements, quality planning, documentation expectations, and structured problem-solving.