Senior Quality Engineer - Aerospace Tooling & Ground Support Equipment

What You'll Be Doing

• Champion improvement programs designed to curb variation, lift process capability, and secure durable gains in quality performance.
  
• Serve as the recognized technical quality decision -maker for the products, processes, and suppliers in your remit.
  
• Take part in audits of every type, whether internal, external, customer -led, or supplier -facing, and in associated ISO 9001 compliance tasks.
  
• Assess, authorize, and technically govern inspection plans, First Article Inspections (FAI), and conformance approaches for critical or complex items.
  
• Steer RCCA investigations reaching across internal, supplier, and customer matters, drawing on disciplined problem -solving frameworks like 8D, 5 -Why, and Ishikawa/Fishbone.
  
• Manage supplier quality across an international supplier base, taking in audits, supplier corrective action requests (SCARs), performance assessments, and development initiatives.
  
• Work hand in hand with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Customer Service, and leadership to surface, weigh, and curb quality risks.
  
• Stand as the lead quality contact whenever customer or supplier escalations arise, including audits, complaints, corrective actions, and resolution of issues.
  
• Keep watch over quality metrics, trends, supplier performance, and customer quality matters, analyzing and reporting on each.
  
• Handle MRB activity for escalated nonconformances, applying risk -weighted dispositions such as rework, repair, use -as -is, scrap, or customer approval.
  
• Deliver coaching and instruction on GD&T, inspection methods, and the broader quality toolkit.
  
• Lead containment, root cause analysis, the deployment of corrective actions, verification of their effectiveness, and prevention of recurrence.
  
• Establish and upkeep quality standards, inspection plans, work instructions, and the documentation that underpins them.
  

Requirements

Preferred

• Familiarity with APQP, SPC, process capability, and advanced quality planning.
  
• A degree in Engineering, Quality, or a comparable technical subject, though meaningful relevant experience may stand in for formal qualifications.
  
• A history of dealing with international suppliers and the quality expectations that come with them.
  
• Some exposure to AS9100 or to aerospace customer quality requirements.
  
• A working understanding of the fundamentals of metallurgy and welding.
  
• Certification such as CQE, Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt, ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, or AS9100 Lead Auditor.
  
• A technical feel for complex precision machined parts, mechanical assemblies, and hydraulic assemblies.
  

Benefits

• Salary ranging from $80 000 to $110 000, set according to experience.
  
• Reimbursement toward tuition.
  
• Cover spanning medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  
• A program rewarding employee referrals.
  
• A 401(k) carrying a company match, at present 5%, available once three months have passed.
  
• Opportunities to grow professionally, including manager and quality training programs being introduced amid continued expansion.
  
• Paid time off, public holidays, and sick leave.
  
• Coverage that begins on the first day of the month after the start date.
  
• Two weeks of accrued vacation plus five sick days for individual contributors.
  

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