Senior Quality Engineer
Leonardo DRS
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Menomonee Falls • Wisconsin • United States
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About the role
- Lead the efforts to develop, maintain, and deploy quality plans and activities that translate customer requirements into planned activities
- Indirectly manage a group of engineers, technicians and/or inspectors
- Perform analyses of program requirements and prepare responsive quality plans, procedures, schedules and resource allocations to ensure optimum quality support
- Review and approve engineering/test and contractor documentation and provide input to assure that appropriate quality requirements are addressed
- Develop and implement formalized quality system processes, procedures and work instructions
- Lead the efforts to gather, organize, monitor, analyze and report on information on products and processes
- Provide ongoing quality system support to include performing internal audits, ensuring implementation of root cause corrective actions
- Lead product quality improvement teams, Material Review Boards and Failure Review Boards
- Evaluate and dispose of non-conforming material
- Provide technical support for Assembly/Test/Inspection personnel to include executing workmanship improvement plans, developing inspection methods and criteria, specifying appropriate sampling plans, interpreting and revising specifications, and processing non-conforming materials
- Act as main customer and senior management interface in resolving customer quality issues and driving root cause and corrective action on process and product quality issues
- Evaluate and make recommendations on critical supplier selections and drives supplier continuous improvement processes, including leading on-site audits, evaluating prototypes, and reviewing and approving of supplier corrective actions
- Lead and execute customer quality program requirements
- Responsible for financial impacts of quality process controls and inspections
- Prepare quality engineering reports and recommendations
- Monitor and mentor junior quality engineers
- Provide regular reporting of progress and status
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field and 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment (defense industry preferred)
- ASQ certification or Black Belt preferred
- Proficient with ISO Standards, Six Sigma tools, statistics
- Ability to understand military specifications and to read blueprints
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, communication and writing skills
- Ability to define problems and drive to root cause and effective corrective action
- U.S. Citizenship required.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- company contribution to a health savings account
- telemedicine
- life and disability insurance
- legal insurance
- 401(k) savings plan
- wellness programs that focus on physical, emotional, and financial well-being
- flexible work schedules with our 9/80 program
- competitive vacation
- health/emergency leave
- paid parental leave
- community service hours
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
quality plansquality system processesinternal auditsroot cause corrective actionsinspection methodssampling plansfinancial impacts of quality process controlsquality engineering reportsISO StandardsSix Sigma tools
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillsnegotiation skillscommunication skillswriting skillsproblem-solvingmentoring
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in EngineeringASQ certificationBlack Belt