Quality Engineer / Supplier Quality Engineer

Very exciting Aerospace company in San Diego and Los Angeles has an immediate need for a Quality Engineer. This is a long-term open ended contract opportunity with a national Aerospace company. Company is based out of San Diego, but the role will be managing suppliers in Orange County and LA.

Min of 5 years of Quality Engineering , Manufacturing engineering or Reliability/Producibility engineering with an aerospace manufacturing firm.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collect and evaluate supplier quality data to identify process improvement opportunities within the supply chain.
• Perform or lead root cause with the supplier directly to create containment and corrective action plans to address product and/or process failures. Communicate and instruct suppliers on the use of a corrective action process and quality tools & techniques.
• Review supplier manufacturing processes, collaborate with suppliers on process improvement and value enhancement opportunities.
• Regularly communicate with Engineering, Quality Engineering and Supply Chain internally to identify opportunities for quality and productivity improvement.
• Collect and maintain supplier performance metrics.
• Coordinate with Technical Support, Engineering, Manufacturing and Technical Support to ensure awareness to known purchased part or product quality issues.
• Review 1st article documentation to ensure compliance to PO requirements
• Regularly visit suppliers

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of 5 years experience in a Supplier Quality capacity highly desirable
• Experience in manufacturing process & procedures
• Strong blue print reading as well as strong GD&T understanding

• Strong knowledge of fabrication based quality control methods, tools and techniques.
• Understands and can use hand measuring tools

• Basic CNC and CMM background
• Has an analytic approach and critical thinking problem solving skills
• Strong data analysis, project management, an metric reporting skills
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong interpersonal and customer interface skills
• Oral and written communication skills, including the ability to write technical reports and presentations
• Advanced knowledge of quality related tools including, but not limited to, Six Sigma, SPC, FMEA, Fault tree, 5Y, Fishbone, DOE and Quality Systems
• Ability to teach basic problem solving techniques and facilitate problem solving team events.
• Self-starter with the ability to quickly learn about new products or processes with very little information provided
• Lean Six Sigma training

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