Quality Engineer III (NH)

Quality Engineer III (Contract) (Location : Nashua, NH area) Preferred Qualifications : Quality Engineer with 5-7+ years’ experience who has a good understanding of GD&T requirements.

Check you match the skill requirements for this role, as well as associated experience, then apply with your CV below.

Qualifications

• BS in a technical discipline.
• Good understanding of GD&T requirements.
• Familiarity with the following workmanship criteria : IPC-A-610, IPC J-STD, MIL-STD-883
• 5-7+ years’ experience in a quality engineering role in a manufacturing engineering, operations project management, or quality position for complex electromechanical assemblies and systems.
• Experience working on Defense / DoD related programs is preferred
• Able to demonstrate knowledge of AS9100 rev D and working in aerospace environment.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to successfully mentor and coach others and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, including customers.
• Knowledge of relevant quality standards, methods and practices.
• Knowledge of relevant manufacturing processes such as soldering, machining, brazing / welding, painting and plating.
• Knowledge of line balancing, fault trees and statistical process control would be a plus.
• Experience with Agile PLM (or similar), Oracle, Solidworks, Jira, and Jama software is a plus.
• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills.
• Proven record of initiative, problem solving and the ability to recognize and implement improvements.
• U.S.

Citizenship Required (Ability to obtain security clearance, but a clearance is not required for this job).

Job Overview : .

This is a hands-on role that works with a team of quality engineers, technicians and inspectors that are engaged through the entire life cycle of product, starting during development, continuing with transitioning of product to manufacturing, and then supporting the continuous manufacture of product.

Understand, improve, and tightly execute development, manufacturing and supplier related processes to support delivery of product, improve customer satisfaction, and achieve internal business goals.

Plan for and ensure the quality of product through collaborative partnerships with customers, with internal departments, and sub-tier suppliers Description During product development, this role participates in guiding the design for quality, manufacturability and producibility, while ensuring project quality plans are compliant to the customers' requirements and applicable standards and regulations.

After the initial design and development is complete, transitioning the product to manufacturing is a critical aspect of this role.

This role ensures the implementation of the quality plan, becomes a key technical interface between engineering development and the manufacturing team, and provides metrics / feedback to the organization on the NPI process, and leads improvement.

During manufacturing, this role works to improve process capability, repeatability, and efficiency as well as product quality.

This is accomplished by working with engineering, manufacturing, suppliers and the customer.

This role will focus on delivering quality product that meets customer requirements, identifying opportunities for yield improvement, process improvement, and product cost-reduction methods.

An emphasis for this role is developing / improving underlying business practices and processes to enable consistency, efficiency and ability to scale.

This role will participate and / or lead failure analysis in manufacturing and for field failures, develop troubleshooting & repair schemes, develop manufacturing process controls and documentation, interface with manufacturing and quality personnel to train and transfer processes & knowledge for successful volume production launches, and engage with suppliers as needed to drive improvement and implement process controls.

Responsibilities