Qualification Engineer: Drive Customer Approvals & Validation

Precision Castparts; Ravenswood (WV); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Precision Castparts is seeking a Qualification Engineer to bridge the gap between customers and the manufacturing organization, ensuring new products, changes, and processes are qualified, approved, and implemented with quality and compliance.

The role requires leading qualification activities, coordinating programs, and serving as the main technical contact while collaborating with Manufacturing, Quality, R&D, Engineering, Sales, and Supply Chain teams to achieve timely customer approvals and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 2–5 years of relevant technical experience as a substitute.
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of materials science, metallurgy, metals processing, or manufacturing principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer qualification and approval activities.
• Coordinate product, material and process qualification programs.
• Ensure all customer requirements are understood and satisfied.
• Manage qualification timelines and deliverables.
• Act as the primary technical contact for qualification-related activities.
• Communicate project status, risks, and qualification results.
• Coordinate customer audits, visits, and technical reviews.
• Address customer questions and concerns regarding product performance and compliance.
• Develop qualification plans and protocols.
• Coordinate laboratory, pilot, and production trials.
• Analyze qualification data and prepare reports.
• Ensure testing demonstrates compliance with customer specifications.
• Prepare qualification packages and technical documentation.
• Manage customer submissions and approval records.
• Support compliance with industry and customer standards.
• Maintain traceability of qualification activities and approvals.
• Assess customer impact from material, process, equipment, or supplier changes.
• Lead customer notification and approval processes.
• Manage requalification activities when changes occur.
• Ensure customer-required change control procedures are followed.
• Work closely with Manufacturing, Quality, R&D, Engineering, Sales, and Supply Chain teams.
• Coordinate activities required to achieve customer approvals.
• Drive issue resolution during qualification activities.
• Support new product introductions and customer launches.
• Investigate customer complaints and qualification failures.
• Conduct root cause analysis.
• Implement CAPA and opportunities to improve qualification efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to improve qualification efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Skills

Customer relationship management

Communication and presentation skills

Project management

Negotiation and influencing

Problem-solving

Organization and attention to detail

Root cause analysis

Statistical analysis

Data interpretation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Metallurgy, Materials Engineering, Engineering, or related field

2–5 years of relevant technical, manufacturing, laboratory, materials, quality, or data-analysis experience

Job description

Precision Castparts is seeking a Qualification Engineer to bridge the gap between customers and the manufacturing organization, ensuring new products, changes, and processes are qualified, approved, and implemented with quality and compliance.

The role requires leading qualification activities, coordinating programs, and serving as the main technical contact while collaborating with Manufacturing, Quality, R&D, Engineering, Sales, and Supply Chain teams to achieve timely customer approvals and