Quality Assurance Specialist

HEICO; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Paid vacation and holidays

401K with company match

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Job summary

HEICO is seeking a Quality Assurance Specialist within the Technical Services group in New York. The role focuses on conducting BU compliance audits to FAA regulations, corporate policies, and industry standards, with emphasis on risk analysis and CAPA implementation.

The position collaborates across HEICO Parts Group, supporting quality control, process improvement, training material creation, and continuous enhancement of QA practices. Interaction with multiple BUs is required.

Qualifications

• Experience performing BU compliance audits to FAA regulations.
• Ability to conduct risk analysis for identified non-conformances.
• Experience facilitating corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) and training materials.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with Technical Services and BU personnel.
• Assess BU compliance to quality manual and FAA regulations via 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 arising from audits.
• Promote a quality driven culture and improve auditing tools and practices.
• Provide feedback on HEICO Quality documentation to ensure regulatory alignment.

Skills

Quality Assurance

FAA Regulations

Auditing

Risk Analysis

CAPA Management

Process Improvement

Training

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