QA Engineer

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