DIRECT HIRE
Summary:
This position is in our Clients Saginaw, Michigan facility.
The Quality Engineer will be expected to play a major role in managing and implementing our Clients Quality Management System, providing statistical focus on process improvements used in the manufacturing of product.
The Quality Engineer will work with a team to coordinate the facility’s quality interactions and all quality related functions; develop management tools and strategies to ensure that the Customer, AS9100D and Nadcap expectations for quality compliance, certifications, and inter-company communication.
Embraces and exemplifies our clients values of FIRST – Focus on the Customer, Innovation, Respect, Social Responsibility & Teamwork.
Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with key customer representatives.
- Drives timely root cause analysis and implementation of permanent preventative and corrective actions for quality issues working directly with manufacturing teams, customers and suppliers.
- Develops and establishes quality management system procedures, work instructions, and inspection plans to ensure compliance with regulatory and customer specifications and contract requirements.
- Supports AS9100D, NADCAP and Customer Audits.
- Performs internal product and process audits, and external supplier audits ensuring compliance with Quality Management System. Develops and initiates programs to improve internal and supplier performance.
- Uses methodical and systemic analytical approaches to perform effective RCCA’s. Assesses quality performance trends and leads improvement efforts.
- Writes work instructions, process, and procedure documents to ensure compliance with product, process, customer, and system requirements.
- Develops statistical process controls by applying and maintaining applicable control charts, providing training and coaching of others throughout the organization in SPC methodology.
- Refines and enhances products and processes by applying continual improvement, lean manufacturing, 5s’, and cost reduction activities to areas of production.
- Compiles and writes training material and conducts training sessions on quality related activities.
- Provides Quality support for Manufacturing and Design Engineering group with identifying opportunities for improvement, while reviewing drawings, manufacturing sketches, change requests, routings and other engineering related documentation.
Requirements:
Competencies:
- Effective Communication Skills
- Thoroughness.
- Collaboration.
- Problem Solving/Analysis.
- Decision Making.
Education/Experience/Certificates/Licenses:
- Bachelor’s Degree (BS) in Engineering from an accredited Institution .
- Minimum of 3 years Quality experience within the aerospace industry
- Familiarity and comprehension of basic specifications and standards, i.e., ANSI, ASME, AS9100D, AS9102, NADCAP.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to interface effectively with personnel, customers, and regulatory agencies.
- Must be fluently proficient in the utilization of engineering drawings / material and process specifications.
- Must be able to prioritize multiple tasks, work independently and efficiently, with minimum supervision.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills in a cross-functional environment.
- Experience successfully communicating and implementing Quality standards and policies.
- Experience with inspection tools and methodologies.
- Experience with RCCA, 8D, 5 WHY, 3A, SPC, FMEA, GR&R, Six Sigma Methodologies.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and ERP systems.
Computer Skills:
- Proficient in Windows XP, Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Microsoft Project,
- Familiar with Dynamics 365 (preferable) or like operating system, and AX 3.5 and 4.2.
Language/Mathematical/Reasoning/Mechanical:
- Must be able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Write routine reports and correspondence.
- Speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Compute rate, ratio and percent.
- Draw, analyze and interpret data into graphical representations, such as a bar graph or pie chart.
- Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
ITAR Requirements:
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
