Engineering - Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Engineer Position The position will work with Material Program Managers (MPM) and Production Quality Program Managers (QPM) on Product Quality Assurance (PQA) work tasks/priorities and functionally collaborates with the Center of Excellence (COE) Manager. The candidate must have a demonstrated history of strong performance and ability to take initiative across a variety of QA responsibilities/tasks on development and/or sustainment programs. The candidate is expected to quickly come-up to speed with the diverse product lines, Hardware PQA work scope, technical requirements, program risks, and delivery milestone schedule. The Quality Engineer's responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Identify root causes and associated corrective actions, evaluate process/product performance, and participate/work with the engineering and production counterparts on program activities to assure processes and products are compliant to contractual requirements and proactive actions taken to prevent reoccurrence. Ability to evaluate and disposition production nonconforming hardware and analyze defect data to identify systemic issues and trends Drive Lessons learned and utilize new technologies to improve Quality operations Provide inputs to the Production QPM on product QA tasking, as required, to ensure sound labor estimates on ECPs and ongoing proposal efforts Participate in the program's hardware change control boards, as required Ability to verify systems are 100% compliant to the requirements and to present systems to customer representative(s) for acceptance Ability to support, participate and execute strategies related to the roll-out of advanced manufacturing. This includes Additive Manufacturing, Rapid Prototyping, Lean Manufacturing, etc