Customer Quality Engineer – Additive Casting (Aerospace)

Beehive Industries; Loveland (CO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Life insurance

401(k) with company match

Equity in the company

Bonus eligible

Job summary

Beehive Industries seeks a Quality Engineer to lead customer-facing quality activities for the Additively Enabled Castings (AEC) business. You will interpret customer requirements, establish plans, coordinate evidence, manage submissions, and drive issues to resolution.

You will partner with Engineering, Operations and Quality Inspection in a rapidly scaling manufacturing environment, ensuring robust quality plans and program readiness from design to production launch.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, manufacturing, quality, materials science, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience.
• Five or more years of quality engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Experience serving as a customer-facing quality representative or coordinating directly with customer quality organizations.
• Experience interpreting engineering drawings, specifications, purchase order requirements, and customer quality clauses.
• Knowledge of Advanced Product Quality Planning, Production Part Approval Process, PFMEA, control plans, and process validation.
• Working knowledge of AS9100 requirements.
• Experience planning, preparing, reviewing, or approving First Article Inspection and product qualification packages.
• Experience with nonconformance management, containment, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and effectiveness verification.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary day-to-day quality contact for assigned AEC customers.
• Develop trusted relationships with customer quality, engineering, sourcing, and program representatives.
• Lead customer quality reviews covering qualification status, documentation, nonconformances, escapes, corrective actions, process changes, and quality performance.
• Provide timely and transparent communication regarding quality risks, issues, containment, investigations, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate responses to customer quality inquiries, concerns, complaints, and requests for information.
• Represent Beehive during customer audits, source inspections, qualification reviews, corrective-action meetings, and other quality-related engagements.
• Lead quality communications when issues could affect product conformity, qualification, shipment, or customer acceptance.
• Partner with Manufacturing Programs to ensure quality requirements are reflected in commitments and schedules.
• Escalate unresolved quality issues or overdue approvals that could affect program execution or customer satisfaction.

Skills

Customer liaison

Quality planning

Documentation management

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional leadership

AS9100 knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical discipline

Job description

Beehive Industries seeks a Quality Engineer to lead customer-facing quality activities for the Additively Enabled Castings (AEC) business. You will interpret customer requirements, establish plans, coordinate evidence, manage submissions, and drive issues to resolution.

You will partner with Engineering, Operations and Quality Inspection in a rapidly scaling manufacturing environment, ensuring robust quality plans and program readiness from design to production launch.