Quality Engineer

Katalyst CRO; Simpsonville (SC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Katalyst CRO in Simpsonville, SC is seeking an experienced quality professional to develop and lead proactive quality strategies within aerospace/DoD programs. You will partner with senior managers and customers to define steps to implement CORE and CoPQ projects, drive early engagement, and improve cost, schedule and quality performance.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree, 5+ years in regulated environments, experience with AS9100, FAI/AS9102, RCCA, and leading cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Aerospace or DoD experience in regulated environments.
• Experience with First Article Inspection (FAI).
• Knowledge of AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• Experience leading teams in failure and root-cause analysis.
• Experience in manufacturing/design process support.
• Six Sigma, Lean, and/or ASQ certifications.
• Experience in risk mitigation and opportunity management.
• Experience interfacing with customers and audits.
• Ability to forecast and communicate data to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Develop partnerships with program teams to implement proactive quality strategies.
• Engage strategically to improve quality, cost, and schedule performance.
• Generate CORE and CoPQ projects to reduce costs.
• Monitor RCCA and drive corrective actions.
• Lead FAI reviews and audit preparations.

Skills

Quality leadership

RCCA

Root cause analysis

FAI/AS9102

DoD/aerospace

AS9100

Six Sigma

Lean

APQP

PPAP

Change board

Data analysis

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Job description

• Develop partnerships with senior managers, IPTs, customers, and quality functions of the program team to define steps necessary to implement proactive quality strategies
• Engage on both strategic and tactical levels, focusing on quality, cost and schedule performance, early engagement, influencing and providing differentiating quality value to program teams and customers.
• Generation of new CORE (Customer Oriented Result and Excellence), CoPQ (Cost of Poor Quality) projects to reduce costs/increase efficiency
• Monitor / lead root cause corrective action (RCCA)
• Facilitate the completion of internal and customer required First Article Inspection (FAI) Reviews
• Participation and preparation for customer, third party regulatory and internal audits
• Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of five (5) years of prior relevant experience.
• Must have some type of aerospace or DoD experience or something regulated
• Must have first article inspection
• Working experience with AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• Working experience leading teams in failure analysis, root cause analysis, corrective and preventative action.
• Working experience in providing technical program support for manufacturing and/or design processes.
• Six Sigma, Lean, and / or American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications
• Experienced team player who achieves goals and strives for continuous improvement.
• Experience Reviewing Purchase Orders, Customer Drawings, Corrective Action Requests (CAR)
• Experience interfacing directly with customers
• Experience leading customer audits
• Experience presenting, reviewing and/or approving changes through a formal Change Board.
• Experience exercising judgement and apply resolution-making skills with appropriate supervisory intervention.
• Experience in risk mitigation and opportunity management.
• Experience translating system requirements and contractual requirements to ensure full compliance is flowed down through product, assembly, and test documentation.
• Experience applying people skills and working with customers, suppliers, and in a team environment.
• Experience in First Article Inspections per AS9102.
• Experience in one or all of the following is highly desired: Six Sigma, Process Certification, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), and Product Part Approval Process (PPAP)
• Experienced in 8D, quality tools, 5 Whys of Root Cause Analysis, and SPC analysis
• Ability to lead a cross-functional team and provide forecasting to reach established goals
• Ability to assimilate, analyze, and present data to leaders, customers, and peers
• Experiencing interfacing with internal and external customers as well as all levels of personnel