Quality Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least three years of hands-on Quality Engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience supporting customer- or program-facing quality activities, including direct interaction with customers and cross-functional program teams.
• Strong working knowledge of manufacturing process validation, control plans, inspection methods, quality records, and corrective action processes.
• Experience with structured root-cause and corrective-action methods and the ability to select and apply methods appropriate to the problem.
• Ability to interpret technical requirements and communicate quality and compliance expectations across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, suppliers, and customers.
• Strong analytical judgment, ownership, curiosity, and decision-making capability, including the confidence to make consequential decisions and escalate appropriately.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, including the ability to influence different personalities and functions without direct authority.
• Positive, team-oriented, and coachable approach; willingness to ask for help, constructively challenge assumptions, and stay engaged until issues are resolved.
• U.S. citizenship is stated as an employment requirement due to U.S. Government contract requirements. The export-control section also says candidates must be U.S. persons or prepared to collaborate in securing required U.S. government export authorizations, with ongoing employment dependent on obtaining appropriate authorizations.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline; equivalent directly relevant quality engineering experience will be considered.
• Five or more years of Quality Engineering experience.
• Aerospace and defense quality experience; experience in other highly regulated manufacturing environments, particularly medical device or automotive, may also be considered.
• Working knowledge of AS9100; strong ISO 9001 experience may be considered if it demonstrates transferable quality-system capability.
• Experience with AS9102 / First Article Inspection.
• Working knowledge of GD&T, FMEA, process capability/Cpk, and related quality engineering tools.
• Lean and/or Six Sigma experience.

Responsibilities

• Own quality performance for assigned customer and program portfolios and serve as a primary quality interface with customers and aerospace and defense prime contractors.
• Review proposals, statements of work, customer requirements, and program documentation for alignment with design intent, quality and regulatory requirements, and contractual commitments.
• Partner with Program Management and teams across Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, and Supplier Quality to identify, assess, and resolve quality risks.
• Maintain end-to-end ownership of quality issues across customer, manufacturing, and supplier boundaries; coordinate resources and drive issues to resolution.
• Support first article readiness and execution, including AS9102/FAI requirements, and help ensure supplier quality requirements and flow-downs are understood and implemented.
• Lead and support root-cause investigations and corrective and preventive action using structured problem-solving methods.
• Support manufacturing process validation, control plans, inspection instructions, quality records, and other documentation needed to demonstrate process and product compliance.
• Analyze production and quality data to identify trends, systemic issues, and improvement opportunities, and use data to support technical and business decisions.
• Participate in customer and program reviews as the quality and compliance representative for assigned programs, communicating risks, status, corrective actions, and performance.
• Use independent judgment and ownership in quality decisions with potential customer, program, compliance, and financial impact, escalating when additional support or authority is needed.
• Drive continuous improvement using Lean, Six Sigma, and other appropriate quality tools and methodologies.
• Build cross-functional relationships, influence outcomes without direct authority, and foster a team-first approach to problem solving.