Quality Engineer

ESAero is seeking a QUALITY ENGINEER to join the team!

Company Overview  Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc (ESAero) is a leader in aerospace engineering, product development, and manufacturing, dedicated to delivering high-quality, innovative, and cost-effective solutions to the industry.

We specialize in cutting-edge system design, rapid product development, precision manufacturing, comprehensive testing, and technology demonstrations to support the evolving needs of the aerospace community.

Committed to excellence, on-time delivery, and continuous growth, we invest in infrastructure to expand our manufacturing and aftermarket capabilities while maintaining the highest standards of engineering services.  At ESAero, we don’t just build products, we engineer solutions that propel   the aerospace industry forward.

• This position is fully on-site at ESAero in San Luis Obispo, CA
• __________________________________________________________________________  Job Summary :
• Reporting to the Quality Manager, the Quality Engineer will be responsible for project support and will support AS9100 Rev D certification maintenance, operations efforts and audits.  The ideal candidate must be willing to undertake a variety of tasks to support the evolution of the Quality Management System as the company grows its manufacturing capabilities.  Duties / Responsibilities of the Quality Engineer :   Act as liaison by providing interpretation, communicating, and educating of quality requirements, policies, or procedures to the functional program representatives.  Development and maintenance of inspection instructions, ensuring inspection instructions meet the technical data package requirements and meet production needs.

Internal FAI support.  Support work instruction development and maintenance activities by reviewing work instructions, test instructions, auditing processes, and assuring configuration management.  Provide guidance and assistance in developing workmanship standards, test procedures and quality assurance strategies.  Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering and Project Management teams to develop tools, fixtures and assembly and test procedures to support high quality manufacturing of project deliverables and products and reduce defects in various processes.  Assist in developing systems methodology to streamline product development to incorporate “robust” design tools to eliminate mistakes, design for cost, FMEA, qualification testing, design quality, reliability into the products produced; codify design process and craft a smooth transition to serial production.  Participate in defect review and Material Review Board, Non-Conforming Material Reports (NCMRs), working with cross-functional teams to disposition and root-cause investigation, corrective and preventive actions.  Coordinate deliverable activities with customers, Program Managers, Engineering and Manufacturing Leads to ensure deliverable items are correctly packaged, documented and ready for customer review / buy-off.  Oversee processing of customer returned material and control of deficiency report documents from receipt to delivery of corrected product.  Verify product and process compliance with respect to contractual, technical, industry, AS9100 Quality Management System (QMS) requirements and internal policies.  General QA support :