Aerospace Quality Engineer — Zero-Defect Champion

L3Harris Technologies; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies in Salt Lake City seeks a Specialist Quality Engineer to support operations quality and ensure on-time delivery while managing costs. You will join a cross-functional team in manufacturing and testing to address issues and prevent recurrences.

The role emphasizes leading zero-defect initiatives, developing control plans, and mentoring engineers, with opportunities to interface across engineering, production, and customers.

Qualifications

• 4 years of experience in a quality-related discipline.
• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline.

Responsibilities

• 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 led 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.
• Mentors engineers within the Quality organization.

Skills

Quality engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

MS Office

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

RCCA

PFMEAs

AS9100/ISO 9001

Control charts

MS Office Suite

Job description

L3Harris Technologies in Salt Lake City seeks a Specialist Quality Engineer to support operations quality and ensure on-time delivery while managing costs. You will join a cross-functional team in manufacturing and testing to address issues and prevent recurrences.

The role emphasizes leading zero-defect initiatives, developing control plans, and mentoring engineers, with opportunities to interface across engineering, production, and customers.