Quality Engineer

POSITION TITLE: Quality Engineer

DEPARTMENT: Quality

POSITION REPORTS TO: Director, Quality

Position Purpose:

LeFiell Manufacturing Company, is an Employee Owned (ESOP) Company and an innovative global leader providing highly engineered precision metallic tubular parts and assemblies for the commercial aircraft, defense, and space segments of the aerospace industry. The Company is seeking an experienced Quality Engineer to join its team.

The Quality Engineer is responsible for verification that product has gone through the inspection process, ensuring the product meets all quality standards and products that leave the facility to go to our customer are of the finest quality and with zero defects.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with departmental standard operating procedures and AS9100 procedures
• Develop and implement Quality processes and procedures using Lean Manufacturing processes and procedures
• Develop and initiate standards and methods for inspection, testing and evaluation
• Track root cause of problems and perform corrective actions
• Develop and write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals
• Review quality trends with customers and suppliers
• Read, analyze and interpret business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures
• Perform internal and external audits
• Review Manufacturing planning, engineering change requests and purchase orders to ensure quality requirements are met
• Ensure compliance with departmental standard operating procedures and AS9100 procedures
• Maintain and control the CARs/NCRs for completion
• Fill out customer Quality Surveys and develop the LeFiell quality checklists
• Customer and product documentation preparation
• Prepare reports and qualification packages
• Perform internal audits, address and resolve the audit findings
• Report statistics and metrics for internal audits
• Maintain and control the QCBD findings for completion that are delinquent and not in conformance
• Publish metrics for the Quality Assurance department and the Quality Assurance System

Background and Experience:

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

Education: BA/BS Degree in Engineering desired and/or years of industry experience can substitute for education

Desired Certifications: Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (CSSBG) and Lean Manufacturing and Quality Control credentials, NADCAP Certification and PPAP Certification preferred

Experience, knowledge and skills:

An experienced professional with 3 plus years of experience as a Quality Engineer in a Manufacturing and AS9100 environment. The ideal candidate will have the following preferred experience;

• Ability to work within specific time lines
• Excellent communication; written, verbal, and presentations
• Successfully manages projects, programs
• Experienced with MS Suite, Outlook

General Requirements:

• Comfortable with frequent interactions on the shop floor & being hand’s on
• Vision & Business results driven with good communication skills
• Effectively works cross functionally with all departments.
• ITAR verifiable

Able to pass a drug/alcohol test, background check and preplacement physical