Materials Science Quality Engineer IIIII

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About This Role

The Quality Engineer supports aerospace and defense programs by applying Quality Engineering principles materials expertise and disciplined systems thinking within an AS9100regulated environment. This role contributes to missioncritical product development and production readiness through quality planning risk mitigation root cause and corrective action datadriven decision making and compliance with customer regulatory and contract requirements. Assignments involve moderately complex defense and aerospace hardware requiring independent execution and crossfunctional coordination.

Responsibilities:

Review customer contracts and technical data packages (TDPs) for simple to moderately complex aerospace/defense programs; perform requirements analysis and documentation using compliance matrices.
Develop Quality Plans QA Directives Inspection Plans and other contractually required quality artifacts aligned with AS9100 and customer requirements.
Collaborate with Supplier Quality Engineering to address supplier escapes source inspection and flowdown of requirements to the supply base.
Maintain direct communication with customer Quality Assurance representatives including DCMA prime contractors or government quality contacts as applicable.
Define inspection and test requirements using industrystandard tools techniques and acceptance criteria appropriate for aerospace hardware.
Participate in engineering design reviews focusing on Design for Manufacturability Design for Inspection Design for Reliability and overall DFX compliance.
Support or lead root cause investigations (5Why fishbone 8D DMAIC) to address nonconformances flight hardware deviations or field returns.
Perform MRB activities including nonconformance evaluation disposition (permitted by delegation) and defect trend analysis.
Contribute to Program Management reviews risk assessments and Earned Value Management (EVM) tasks associated with project quality elements.
Support Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) development verification and ontime delivery of qualityrelated deliverables (QAPs FAI reports control plans audit results).
Assist in defining and improving fabrication processes special processes (e.g. heat treat coatings bonding) and build standards for aerospace materials and assemblies.
Interface with engineering manufacturing supply chain and configuration management to ensure compliance with AS9100 customer specifications and internal procedures.
Provide status updates to the Cost Account Manager and may perform CAM duties for small or midlevel work packages.
Support cost and effort estimating for quality tasks on proposals or followon programs.