Aerospace Quality Lead Engineer | QMS Expert

American Contract Group, Inc; Middlesex (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

American Contract Group, Inc. seeks a Lead Quality Engineer (Aerospace/AS9100/QMS) to drive quality across value streams, deploy QMS tools, and lead cross-functional teams in Middlesex, NC.

This full-time role focuses on preventing defects, improving customer satisfaction, and supporting operational excellence in a 3-month contract with potential extension. The candidate will mentor Quality Engineers, manage investigations, and lead APQP/PPAP activities while ensuring compliance with AS9100 and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in manufacturing, quality engineering, supplier quality, or related technical roles.
• Experience working within a regulated quality management system environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with applicable customer, regulatory, and industry standards, including AS9100, ISO 9001, customer-specific requirements, and internal procedures.
• Support audits, assessments, and corrective action activities.
• Deploy APQP methodologies and support PPAP submissions and approvals.
• Ensure adequate control plans, PFMEAs, inspection methods, validation activities, and launch readiness requirements are established and maintained.
• Support manufacturing process capability improvements through SPC, mistake-proofing, and variation reduction initiatives.
• Lead investigations of customer complaints, escapes, and returns.
• Drive containment, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive actions.
• Facilitate structured problem-solving activities utilizing 8D, 5 Why. Fishbone Analysis, Pareto Analysis, etc.
• Partner with Supplier Quality and Supply Chain teams to improve supplier performance.
• Act as a subject matter expert for quality systems, tools, and customer requirements.

Skills

Quality leadership

Problem solving

Regulated environment

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

APQP/PPAP

8D problem solving

SPC

PFMEA

Job description

American Contract Group, Inc. seeks a Lead Quality Engineer (Aerospace/AS9100/QMS) to drive quality across value streams, deploy QMS tools, and lead cross-functional teams in Middlesex, NC.

This full-time role focuses on preventing defects, improving customer satisfaction, and supporting operational excellence in a 3-month contract with potential extension. The candidate will mentor Quality Engineers, manage investigations, and lead APQP/PPAP activities while ensuring compliance with AS9100 and