About This Role
This entry-level Quality Engineer position provides technical support to the quality team, focusing primarily on nonconformance, corrective actions, and continuous improvement programs. The role involves evaluating products, materials, components, parts, and processes at various stages of production to ensure compliance with quality and reliability standards, particularly for aerospace and space-based composite structures. The Quality Assurance Engineer ensures products are free of flaws and function as designed, contributing to high reliability and proper performance.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical and regulatory expertise through the review of specifications, drawings, and customer requirements
- Conduct evaluations of products, materials, and components on all types of standard and special products to ensure alignment with product requirements and quality standards
- Evaluate processes to ensure alignment with product requirements and quality standards
- Provide detailed analysis, troubleshooting, and evaluation of components, assemblies, and systems
- Create risk assessments through the quality database
- Maintain documentation records and data on tests performed
- Recommend quality solutions to complex problems and implement corrective actions
- Coordinate tests and trials to facilitate improvements and/or evaluations as needed
- Perform internal audits based on established criteria and record the results
- Read and follow work instructions
- Perform analysis of composite tooling, components, subassemblies, and assemblies
- Perform analysis of painted composite components, subassemblies, and assemblies
- Perform dimensional measurements with instruments such as calipers, micrometers, height stands, indicators, gage pins, depth gage, protractor, and other gages as required
- Use Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Teams, Epicor, and internal quality database
- Read and determine conformity to process specifications
- Assist with training/development of processes and actions created from nonconformance, corrective actions, or continuous improvement activities
- Actively demonstrate all safety policies and procedures
- Create PFMEAs, control plans, process flow charts, MSAs, and other APQP functions
- Assist in AS9100, Nadcap AC7114 and AC7118, and customer audit compliance
- Assist in implementing Sabre compliance
- Assist in maintaining ECN / deviation process
- Perform all other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Engineering degree or a combination of relevant education and work experience may be substituted to meet educational requirements only
- 3 years of relevant experience
- Knowledge of Quality Engineering processes and regulatory requirements
- Excellent ability to apply a systematic, disciplined, and analytical approach to problem solving
- Good knowledge and ability to apply core concepts of engineering
- Ability to use existing procedures to solve problems
- Effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to drive tasks to completion
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Basic and other benefits
Important Details
- Schedule: Regular, consistent, and punctual attendance is required; may need to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and additional hours as necessary
About the Company
Applied Composites (AC) is a leading provider of complex composite components, assemblies, engineering, and tooling to the aerospace, defense, and space system markets. The company values and develops its employees while offering engaging work.
