Senior Quality Engineer

GKN Aerospace Careers•Charlestown, NH

43d

About The Position

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.Job SummaryQuality Engineer will provide support to operational and development programs to enable and deliver zero defect projects utilizing engineering and problem solving skills. Accountable for delivering and maintaining robust capable manufacturing processes. Leads and implements quality first culture by supporting various activities, auditing processes or people, and providing trainings or awareness.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from accredited univeristy/college or equivalent (4 years) experience in qualification listed.
Musst be fluent (speaking and reading) the English language
Must be a US Citizen

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of quality system models such as ISO9000,AS9100
Aerospace experience
Experience with auditing
Customer facing experience
Machining understanding
Training and/or experience in lean tools and techniques (Practical Problem Solving, AC, PFMEA and/or Fishbone diagrams)
Familiarity with AS9145 process or equivalent
Experience with Nadcap requirements

Responsibilities

Exemplifying a safety-first mind-set and ensuring compliance with the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
Provides technical expertise to solve issues pertaining to vendor schedule and/or quality.
Breaks down technical problems, risk, opportunites, in the correct order to create products and add value to GKN Aerospace through creating Zero Defects.
Leads positive, team relationships with internal and external customers, as wel as co-workers.
Continuously improves production processes by implementing Lean initiatives.
Implement the global business processes to create root cause analysis, preventative and corrective action to eliminate non-conformances utilizing the GKN standard Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) tool suite.
Leading product development, customer quality requirements management and first article development.
Leading supplier audits and assessments along with manageing the NCRs generate by audit (i.e. supplier, internal, workstation, customer, certify agents, etc.)
Contribute to the continued development of the Quality Management System by intergrating industry and customer requirement and ensuring compliance.
Communicate and visit suppliers to resolve quality issues.
Ensure site complies to customer quality systems by auditing or enabling others to audit and monitor actions and closures of findings or opportunities for improvement.
Point of contact for customer on all quality related topics (i.e. issues, development, audits, fixed process changes, questions, etc.)
Managing the calibration of measuring equipment (i.e. hand held tools, CMMs, granite surface plates, comparators, tool setter, special built gages/fixtures, etc.).
Conduct internal periodic quality related trainings.
Collect and monitor quality data (i.e. non-conformances) and recommend and/or review improvements.
Participate in MRB board.
Lead bi-weekly quality discussions
Process owner for NADCAP (conventional machining as special process).
Working knowledge of industry and customer self-release programs.
Analyze quality data and generate reports to identify trends and areas for improvement.
Collaborate with Engineering and Manufacturing teams to resolve quality issues.
Provide training and support staff on quality-related matters.
Maintain accurate documentation and records of quality activities.
Other job duties as assigned.