Specialist, Quality Engineer Level

Job Description:
Specialist, Quality Engineer works under general supervision and may be responsible for entire projects or processes providing guidance, coaching, training, and delegation to other employees within the job area. Communicates with contacts within and outside of their own department with the occasional responsibilities of communicating with customers or vendors external to the organization. Makes moderate enhancements or improvements to systems and processes to solve problems. Works to achieve operational targets with moderate impact on department results.
Essential Functions:
Utilizes engineering background and expertise to communicate between team members and customer counterparts to provide assurance that the hardware is compliant to specifications. Handles and communicates deviations/ nonconformance at different levels within the organization. Understands and communicates typical aerospace processes (machining, welding, non-destructive testing, etc.) and how they are applied to the hardware being manufactured.
Applies modern quality principles, concepts, and methods to routine aerospace and manufacturing operation, including Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools.
Interprets engineering drawings and specifications, customer quality requirements, and company quality requirements to ensure compliance with the customer's expectations.
Drives continuous improvements of the quality system and manufacturing processes.
Evaluates and dispositions in-process defects and address day-to-day quality concerns. Rapidly implementing containment and corrective actions, as applicable.
Participates in the review and disposition of nonconforming product, including coordinating material review board (MRB) dispositions.
Partners with Project and Manufacturing Engineering to implement test and inspection plans and processes and generate test reports/memos.

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