Supplier Quality Engineer

Crane Company • Fort Walton Beach, FL

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Crane Aerospace and Electronics has an exciting opportunity for a Supplier Quality Engineer at our Fort Walton Beach, FL location. Crane Aerospace & Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense markets. You’ll find Crane Aerospace & Electronics in some of the toughest environments: from engines to landing gear; from satellites to medical implants and from missiles to unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Located minutes away from picturesque white-sand beaches and emerald green water, our Crane Aerospace & Electronics Fort Walton Beach location is home to our Defense Power business – a leading supplier of high-power solutions for aerospace & defense applications. You’ll join a trusted, dynamic organization that supplies prime defense manufacturers with custom radar, directed energy and electric warfare solutions for placement on innovative, next-gen military platforms. Join us and our growing business as we supply solutions that enable the latest defense technology!

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as Supplier Quality, Quality, Reliability or Components Engineer in a electronics or automotive manufacturing environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field required.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Familiarity with Hybrid manufacturing methods including IPC610 and J-STD001.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with statistical tools such as Minitab preferred.
• Green Belt or Black Belt certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive effective evaluation of new suppliers during the product development process to ensure only the highest levels of quality are accepted
• Coordinate product and component failure analysis. Drive corrective action, and inspection of all program hardware (to J-STD001 and IPC610 Class 3) and documentation and supplier quality improvements.
• Work directly with supplier base on material issues to drive timely root cause analysis and implementation of permanent/preventative corrective actions.
• Analyze and resolve customer complaints and field reliability issues.
• Manage in-house program audits and corrective action program in support of AS9100 (Aerospace Standard) certification.
• Apply statistical process control (SPC) methods for analyzing data to evaluate current process and process changes.
• Lead both CSI and GSI inspections and provide customers all required documentation.
• Ensure proper documentation via NCMR’s of all quality write ups, ensuring all NCMR’s are properly filled out and addressed prior to hardware moving forward.
• Assist Manufacturing Engineering in FAR (Failure Analysis Reports) to ensure all failures are properly documented and full corrective action is followed through and documented.
• Ensure all hardware and documentation is in compliance with approved drawings and designs.
• Assist and take a lead role in driving to completion of FAR’s as required in accordance with AS9102.
• Drive Material Review Board meetings where applicable.

Benefits

• Health care, dental, vision, life and disability insurance starting the first day of the month
• 15 days of paid time off that start accruing your first day at Crane and 11 paid holidays per year.
• 401k plan with company match
• eligible after 6 months of employment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior