Quality Engineer
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Job Location:
Gardena, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
18 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Quality Engineer
The Quality Engineer will play a critical role in ensuring compliance with aerospace quality standards and customer requirements. This position will interface with operation managers to resolve major quality issues support internal manufacturing operations and drive continuous improvement initiatives. The engineer will be a key contributor to maintaining and advancing AS9100 and NADCAP certifications with a strong focus on chemical processing heat treat and metallic materials (MTL) disciplines.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Promote advanced quality management systems processes across manufacturing operations.
- Drive internal quality improvements using structured problem-solving tools (of A3 Projects FMEA 5WHY Lean).
- Assess and improve process effectiveness and efficiency to reduce variability and defects.
- Provide defect analysis data collection to support root cause investigations.
- Identify root cause for nonconformance and ensure effective corrective actions are implemented
- Conduct process audits to ensure NADCAP compliance and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support capital improvements documentation and process standardization.
- Support customer audits and regulatory reviews.
- Support organization growth of AS9100 and NADCAP processes.
Required Skills:
- Knowledge of NADCAP special processes (chemical processing heat treat metallic materials testing).
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and communicate with operations engineering and customers.
- Strong analytical decision making problem solving skills
- Possess understanding of Risk Analysis process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis process Fault Tree Analysis and Requirements and Hazard Traceability processes Continuous improvement techniques
- Familiarity with Six Sigma Methodology
Required Experience:
- 4 years manufacturing experience in a quality engineering field withAerospace customer experience
- Direct experience with ISO 9001 AS9100 and NADCAP requirements.
- Hands-on experience in chemical processing heat treat operations and metallic materials testing (MTL).
Level of Education:
- Bachelors in Mechanical Material Science Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering preferred
Key Skills
- APQP
- Quality Assurance
- Six Sigma
- ISO 9001
- PPAP
- Minitab
- Root cause Analysis
- ISO 13485
- Quality Systems
- Quality Management
- As9100
- Manufacturing
