Aerospace Quality Engineer - Root Cause & Compliance

Appone; Enfield (CT); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Aerospace & Defense in Enfield is seeking a Quality Engineer to ensure aerospace components meet customer and company quality requirements while maintaining production flow in a high‑reliability environment.

You will review blueprints, analyze quality data, generate inspection plans, manage first article inspections, and drive nonconformances and corrective actions with suppliers and internal teams in an agile setting.

Qualifications

• BS degree in mechanical engineering or related technical field; Six Sigma Black Belt preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review aerospace customer blueprints for quality plans.
• Collect, analyze, and present quality data including cost of quality, company scrap, rework, customer complaints, and internal audit results.
• Review and incorporate first article requirements and ensure production readiness.
• Generate inspection plans: characteristic accountability-sequence (balloon) all drawing characteristics, extract specification requirements for inspection, generate inspection method required equipment, and review and approve IMS.
• Ability to submit non-conformances to suppliers/customers.
• Knowledgeable of SPC, FMEA, PPAP, Gauge R&R, VSM, and lean manufacturing.
• Good verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate and convey issues. Able to participate in technical discussions and work in a collaborative team-based environment.
• Disposition of nonconforming material (NMR).
• Background in aerospace auditing techniques, both internal and with suppliers.
• Strong background in Root Cause, Corrective Action, Preventative Action and Mistake proofing.
• Must be able to successfully navigate an agile work environment with shifting priorities.

Skills

Blueprint review

Data analysis

First article

Inspection plans

Non-conformances

SPC

FMEA

PPAP

Gauge R&R

VSM

Lean manufacturing

Communication

Root Cause

Corrective Action

Agile environment

Education

BS in Mechanical Engineering

Six Sigma Black Belt preferred

Tools

DQR

MiniTab

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Project

Job description

Applied Aerospace & Defense in Enfield is seeking a Quality Engineer to ensure aerospace components meet customer and company quality requirements while maintaining production flow in a high‑reliability environment.

You will review blueprints, analyze quality data, generate inspection plans, manage first article inspections, and drive nonconformances and corrective actions with suppliers and internal teams in an agile setting.