Quality Engineer III (36485)

Leads projects, training and coordinating quality program designs to ensure continuous production of products consistent with established standards and customer requirements by performing the following functions personally or through subordinate personnel. Places safety and environmental issues as a priority at all times.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Design and implement methods for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection. Oversee, promote and execute quality standards, inspection processes, test methodology, quality plans, documents and reports. Lead process certification and audits in accordance with quality standards. Review customers purchase orders, contracts and change requests and ensure that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in quality and process plans. Oversee, develop, execute and analyze quality-reporting measures. Report and resolve quality issues, trends and losses. Develop and maintain supplier qualification process. Review suppliers purchase orders and establish supplier quality requirements. Lead internal and external quality audits. Serve as the Quality Assurance representative to the Materials Review Board (MRB). Compile, write and deliver training material on quality standards and activities. Work within the company policies to manage the quality assurance aspects of new product introduction. Oversee the manufacture of products to ensure that engineering documentation is consistent with manufacturing methods employed. Coordinate activities associated with “first article build” of new products, ensuring that fabricated items are traceable to documented standards at the time of release of product into the production mode. Develop test methods/procedures to support product validation efforts. Maintain test equipment to traceable standards accepted in the aerospace, defense, energy, construction, and medical industry. Perform validation tests to meet customer specifications. Generate test reports of validation tests. Develop and maintain Supplier Qualification Process. May assume a team lead role in the department. Continuously evaluating processes to necessary changes as required. Responsible for ensuring all tasks in projects are complete and meet deadlines. Full Involvement in implementation of department development and improvements. Performs other related duties as assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are

Required

representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Must have the following:

At least 7 years of work experience in Quality Assurance field should be combined with a demonstrated track-record of accomplishments as a Quality Engineer, and with satisfying customers in technology-driven, supporting quality departments. Experience with ISO9001 Quality System requirements, regulations, including planning and implementation. Also, NAVSEA experience preferred. Excellent oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and superior organizational abilities. Ability to take initiative, to maintain confidentiality, to meet deadlines, and to work in a team environment essential. PC-based computing experience (word processing-Word, spreadsheet-Excel presentation- PowerPoint, documentation s/w, statistical software) essential. Experience with performing internal audits, calibration system, and document control. General knowledge of associated machinery and processing preferred. Broad knowledge of theory and principles of statistics and statistical process control. Diverse knowledge of inspection and control methods, techniques, and documentation.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, quality manuals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to effectively present information to top management and customer’s top management.

TRAVEL

As needed.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts and operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis, etc.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

C ERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Green Belt or Black Belt preferred.

P HYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.