Quality Engineer

Responsible for Quality Assurance activities at the Valcor Engineering Corp. performing specialized, complex and involved assignments of a Quality engineering nature having to do with development and administration of quality control procedures and techniques. These include :

• Ensuring that the company’s products conform to all specifications and customer requirements,
• Directing / overseeing activities associated with maintaining all company certifications, and all external agency approvals such as AS9100D and ISO9001 certifications, NADCAP.
• Overseeing configuration management, and quality assurance processes.
• Serving as the interface with customers and vendors on quality related topics.

Essential functions and Responsibilities

• Perform root cause analysis (8D,5 Whys) of identified issues and identify appropriate corrective and preventive action.
• Participate in cross-functional teams in the investigation and elimination of causes of quality problems and verify effectiveness on corrective actions (Corrective Action Board).
• Interface directly with customers to provide the best customer quality experience.
• Perform audits as required to assure compliance with regulatory, customer, and internal requirements.
• Review and assure compliance with customer blueprints, specifications and other technical and quality system documents including Purchase Orders.
• Work closely with Product and Manufacturing engineering, Manufacturing and inspection personnel on procedural problems involving design, methods, tooling, costs and other areas involved in control of product quality.
• As required review raw material certification and review / approve raw material released for production.
• Oversee critical testing and inspection procedures and coordinate inspections with customers and inspectors; analyze and document results.
• Investigate customer complaints on product quality and work closely with customer’s representatives to resolve problems.
• Ensure that the company’s products conform to all specifications and customer requirements.
• Become Delegated Quality Representative (Ref. AS13001) for selected customers.
• Responsible for assuring that customer quality requirements have been adequately defined to permit appropriate quality planning and implementation and that the quality requirements have been met.
• Facilitate the use of LEAN / Six Sigma, and other quality tools for quality and process improvement.
• Prepare and review product data package.
• Establish and provide written procedures for quality assurance activities as related to product manufactured.
• Participate in review and disposition or nonconforming materials.
• Participate in customer audits and source inspections.
• Reviews product and documentation in accordance with applicable customer, regulatory, military, and industry specifications.
• Troubleshoot problems in-house and also those reported by customers including field returns as required and as they occur.
• Review and approve component and final products FAI’s
• Support in-process product reviews.

2) Certifications, Inspection and Audit :

• Oversee the activities associated with maintaining company certifications as well as external agency & customer approvals such as, but not limited to AS9100D, ISO9001, NADCAP.
• Evaluate, develop and maintain activities required to audit quality effectiveness, including the planning and execution of programs of audits;

procedure audits; quality-systems audits, and product audits.

Education and Skills Requirements

• 4 year technical degree or equivalent, prefer Mechanical Engineering
• 4-8 years experience in various phases of Quality Assurance or equivalent in Aerospace, Defense, or Nuclear Power generation environments
• Must be mobile, capable of communicating with plant personnel at all levels
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; composing written reports and other communications
• Superior analytical skills, capable of using current computer analysis tools (Microsoft Office, plus others applicable programs)
30+ days ago