Specialist, Quality Engineering - Mason, United States - L3Harris Technologies

    L3Harris Technologies
    L3Harris Technologies Mason, United States

    2 weeks ago

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    Description

    Job Description:

    As a Quality Engineer you will contribute to the ultimate success of the team and the business. In this role you will engage in data-driven improvement and sustainment initiatives. Additionally, you will design, write, implement, evaluate, and revise quality assurance procedures, statistical sampling techniques, quality plans, inspection and testing techniques and specifications. The Quality Engineer will also work both independently and along team members to provide thorough and practical solutions to a wide range of electrical, electro-optical, mechanical and technical problems. Successful candidates will have experience utilizing Lean Green Belt techniques and various other quality engineering tools.

    Essential Functions:

  • Ability to work and communicate effectively in a team environment.
  • Implement, interpret, and utilize metrics toward process improvement activities.
  • Generate and deploy Green Belt tools, to act as indicators of quality of items produced and health of the process.
  • Analyze metrics and indicators to determine opportunities for improvement and early detection and resolution of nonconformance.
  • As part of the program team, effectively work as a cost account manager for the quality engineering elements of the program work breakdown structure.
  • Interpret and flow down customer quality requirements to programs, engineering, manufacturing, and inspection via Program Quality Requirements (PQR).
  • Interface effectively and successfully with customers to discuss and negotiate quality requirements and specifications.
  • Display undertsnding of risk and risk management as an essential part of the quality engineering work scope.
  • Utilize sense of urgency to act to prevent or correct problems with products and post-delivery defects.
  • Assist in process improvement and process problem solutions on the factory floor.
  • Perform quality engineering functions for specific phases of projects and programs to develop plans, flow charts, inspection methods, procedures and standards, including FAI, detailed instructions, check lists, sampling plans, classification of defects, etc. to assure all products, data, or services meet specified quality requirements.
  • Review Engineering and Manufacturing information on new and revised designs, specifications, bills of materials; production, tool, and test equipment drawings; production and tool plans; operations and routing sheets: production, storage and shipping methods, and to assure that products meet customers' requirements.
  • Provide thorough and practical solutions to a wide range of technical problems utilizing electrical, mechanical, and optical engineering abilities.
  • Effectively interface and collaborate with Supplier Quality Engineering in customer flow-down and to solve vendor quality problems.
  • Apply effective interpretation and application of Quality Standards, such as AS9100, IS0-9001, J-Stds, etc.
  • Act as an advisor in all phases of statistical quality control and Green Belt techniques.
  • Lead teams and perform investigations to drive CAPA for nonconformance, as well as actively participate in material review.
  • Act as the Quality Subject Matter Expert (SME) on program and design teams.
  • Perform Quality related training for employees.
  • Must be able to obtain security clearance requiring valid US citizenship contingent on Program assignment
  • Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
  • 2+ years experience in AS9100.
  • 2+ years experience reading and interpreting electrical and mechanical drawings of complex nature.
  • 2+ years experience with problem-solving tools such as 8D, Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, and CAPA.
  • Preferred Additional Skills:

  • Experience with aerospace or defense manufacturing.
  • A working familiarity of ISO9001, J-STD Workmanship, ANSI J-Standards (Class 3) and IPC Workmanship Standards (Class 3) and TipQA.
  • Familiarity with CMMI Level 3.
  • ASQ Certified Quality Engineer Certificate.
  • Electrical, mechanical engineering and electro-optical experience.
  • Lean manufacturing and Green Belt certification.
  • Familiarity with complex mechanical inspection and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.