Specialist Quality Engineer

Job Title: Specialist Quality Engineer

Job Code: 47699

Job Location: South Salt Lake, Utah

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Operations Quality Engineer supports the Operations and Quality teams to ensure that quality objectives are met while striving for on-time delivery and cost management. This position is integrated into manufacturing and test operations to collaborate in a cross-functional environment to address issues and prevent recurrences of issues

Essential Functions:

• Identifies opportunities and leads Zero Defect projects to reduce Cost of Poor Quality
• Collaborates with inspection and manufacturing to evaluate specific product conditions for compliance where determination of requirements is difficult or unclear
• Leads continuous improvement efforts and participates in improvement projects lead by others using trend analysis and RCCA tools
• Develop and maintain control plans within areas of responsibility
• Validates first article inspection execution and documentation within areas of responsibility
• Provides internal communication regarding acceptance testing issues. Interfaces with test, manufacturing, engineering, and customers as needed
• Mentor engineers within the Quality organization
• Completes risk assessments and validation plans for planned changes
• Supports SPC for in-process inspection
• Be able to move & lift 30 lbs.
• General knowledge of Geometric Dimension and Tolerancing (GD&T) to inspect parts with inspection tools
• Ability to obtain a US Secret Security Clearance

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• Understanding and practical application of quality tools including RCCA, control charts, control plans, and PFMEAs
• Working knowledge and understanding of AS9100/ISO 9001 quality systems

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience reading/interpreting engineering drawings.
• Mechanical assembly experience in order to validate assemblies to detailed, complex drawings
• Hands on experience with AS9100/ISO 9001 quality systems facility audits.
• 4 years of experience in a quality-related discipline
• Risk analysis experience with DFMEA, PFMEA .
• Able to operate and/or program CMM