Quality Engineer

Valence; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Valence Surface Technologies is a full-service surface finishing company focused on aerospace, defense, space and satellite industries. We seek a Quality Manager to lead the quality program and oversee a team, driving on-time quality through audits, process control, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities include implementing quality systems, reviewing supplier quality, and ensuring compliance with customer specs.

Qualifications

• High School diploma; Bachelor’s Degree Preferred.
• 3 years aerospace chemical processing experience.
• Catia and Nadcap experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Understand and execute quality philosophies, systems, risk, standards, and customer expectations.
• Develop and manage quality programs, including tracking, analyzing, reporting, and problem solving.
• Establish, promote, and execute product and process quality and measurement systems.
• Maintain knowledge of reliability, maintainability, and risk management.
• Audit planning, execution, reporting results, and follow-up.
• Review customer orders and supplier quality requirements.
• Compile and deliver training material on quality standards.
• Interpret blueprints and drawings.

Skills

Quality management

Root cause analysis

Process improvement

Auditing

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Quality Engineering or related

Tools

CATIA

Job description

Valence Surface Technologies is a full-service surface finishing company specializing in the commercial aerospace, defense, space and satellite industries. With ten strategically located sites across the United States, Valence provides a start to finish solution from NDT and chemical processing, to paint and sub-assembly.
Position Summary
Responsible for the efficient operation, organization, and oversite of the team; executing the production plan to maximize throughput.
Responsibilities

• Understand and execute quality philosophies, principles, systems, risk, methods, tools, standards, organizational and team dynamics, customer expectations and satisfaction, supplier relations and performance, leadership, training, interpersonal relationships, improvement systems, and professional
• Understand and execute the quality system, including its development, documentation, and implementation with respect to domestic and international standards or requirements.
• Develop and manage quality programs, including tracking, analyzing, reporting, and problem
• Establish, promote, and execute product and process quality, quality principles, including planning processes, material control, acceptance sampling, and measurement systems.
• Maintain a complete knowledge of reliability, maintainability, and risk management, including key terms and definitions, modeling, systems design, assessment tools, and reporting.
• Manage, plan, control, implement, and assure process and/or project application, readiness, and requirements.
• Completely understand and employ problem-solving and quality improvement tools and techniques, including knowledge of management and planning tools, quality tools, preventive and corrective actions, and how to overcome barriers to quality
• Design and implement methods for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection.
• Identify, acquire, and analyze data using appropriate standard quantitative methods across a spectrum of business environments to facilitate process analysis and improvements.
• Understand and execute the audit process including types of audits, planning, preparation, execution, reporting results, and follow-up.
• Review customers purchase orders, contracts and change requests and ensure that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in quality and process plans.
• Review suppliers purchase orders and establish supplier quality requirements.
• Compile, write, and deliver training material on quality standards and activities.
• Understand and execute basic calibration determinations and functions.
• Ability to interpret blueprint and drawings.

Qualifications

• High School diploma; Bachelor\'s Degree Preferred
• 3 years of experience in Aerospace Chemical Processing
• Catia and Nadcap Experience preferred
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

Export Compliance Requirement
This position requires access to EAR or ITAR controlled technologies. Applicants are required to be eligible for employment under U.S. export control laws and must meet the requirement of being a “U.S. Persons”.