Quality Assurance Specialist

HEICO; Florida; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

HEICO Corporation seeks a Quality Assurance Specialist within the Technical Services organization to provide quality and engineering oversight across HEICO Parts Group. You will perform BU audits to FAA regulations and corporate policies, and support quality control and process improvement projects.

You will interact with BUs at multiple levels, drive corrective actions, promote a quality culture, and help improve auditing tools and documentation to ensure regulatory compliance and alignment

Qualifications

• Experience performing quality audits to regulatory standards.
• Ability to analyze nonconformances and drive corrective actions.
• Familiarity with quality documentation and standard operating procedures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with Technical Services team and BU personnel.
• Assess BU compliance to quality manuals and FAA regulations through desk reviews and onsite audits.
• Classify nonconformances and generate audit reports.
• Conduct risk analyses for identified non-conformances.
• Facilitate closure of Corrective and Preventive Actions from audits.
• Promote a quality-driven culture and ensure regulatory alignment across BUs.

Skills

Quality assurance

Regulatory compliance

FAA regulations

Audits

Root cause analysis

Job description

For more than 65 years, HEICO Corporation has thrived by serving niche segments of the aviation, defense, space and electronic industries by providing innovative and cost-saving products and services. HEICO's high energy culture focuses our Team Members' on providing high quality products and services to our customer base. Our leadership approach creates a dynamic environment that continually challenges our Team Members to perform at their best. For four consecutive years, Forbes Magazine ranked HEICO as one of the 200 "Best Small Companies." HEICO Corporation offers competitive compensation, paid vacation and holidays, an excellent 401K plan with company match, and medical, dental, life, and disability insurance.

ROLE:

As a Quality Assurance Specialist, you will join a team of professionals within the Technical Services (TS) organization, who provide quality and engineering oversight, guidance, and assistance to Business Units (BUs) within HEICO Parts Group (HPG). In this role, you will perform mainly quality assurance tasks such as BU compliance audits to FAA regulations, corporate policies and industry standards. You may be required to support quality control and process excellence tasks/projects. This position will have significant interaction with BUs at different levels of the organization.

Core Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

include the following:

• Develop and maintain mutually trustful relationships with the Technical Services team, and BU personnel.
• Assess BU compliance to HPG quality manual and policies, FAA regulations, corporate policies through a combination of desk reviews and onsite audit activities.
• Classification of nonconformances and audit report generation.
• Conduct risk analysis for identified non-conformances.
• Facilitation of, and accountable for closure of Corrective and Preventive Actions arising from audit activities.
• Ensure awareness of HPG corporate requirements at BU.
• Promote a quality driven culture throughout the organization by applying effective quality practices and standards.
• Continuously improve HPG quality auditing tools and practices.
• Continually provide feedback on HPG Quality documentation to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and alignment with business conditions. Facilitate implementation of changes warranted from the feedback.

Bu Quality Consultation Type Responsibilities

• Capture and flow best practices to BUs, and to the extent possible, harmonize BU implementation of these practices, including inspection methodologies.
• Act as a process compliance/quality assurance consultant to BU enabling a culture of collaboration and utilizing best practices.
• Create training material and conduct training on quality assurance topics for Bus.
• May be required to assist in developing quality inspection plans to help BUs streamline inspection methodologies.

Team Support

• Support HPG Quality Director in driving closure for customer complaints, analyzing trends, leading root cause and corrective actions to address defect trends. Also help with tracking waivers and mitigation plans as required.
• Conduct risk analysis for the identified defect trends in partnership with key BU and TS personnel
• Support HPG Quality Director in establishing and monitoring BU quality performance indicators based on audit results and risk analysis.
• Perform additional tasks as required and assigned by the supervisor

Supervisory Responsibilities:

N/A