Quality Engineer II

Motive Workforce; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Motive Workforce is seeking a Senior Associate, Quality Engineer to support aerospace manufacturing programs by ensuring products, processes, and systems meet the highest quality standards.

The role involves independent work on moderately complex projects, collaborating with customers and suppliers to resolve quality issues and improve manufacturing processes, and identifying opportunities for operational and quality improvements across teams.

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience

Responsibilities

• Support quality initiatives across manufacturing and engineering operations.
• Lead or contribute to moderately complex quality projects with minimal supervision.
• Investigate quality issues and implement effective corrective actions.
• Collaborate with internal teams, customers, and suppliers to resolve quality concerns.
• Analyze data and recommend process improvements to enhance product quality and efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards, procedures, and customer requirements.
• Maintain accurate documentation and communicate project status to stakeholders.
• Help drive continuous improvement efforts that positively impact department performance.

Skills

Quality engineering

Lean manufacturing

Six Sigma

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Associate, Quality Engineer to support aerospace manufacturing programs by ensuring products, processes, and systems meet the highest quality standards.

In this role, you'll work independently on moderately complex projects while collaborating with cross-functional teams, customers, and suppliers to resolve quality issues and improve manufacturing processes. You'll play a key role in identifying opportunities for improvement, making process adjustments, and helping the team achieve operational and quality objectives.

What You'll Do

• Support quality initiatives across manufacturing and engineering operations.
• Lead or contribute to moderately complex quality projects with minimal supervision.
• Investigate quality issues and implement effective corrective actions.
• Collaborate with internal teams, customers, and suppliers to resolve quality concerns.
• Analyze data and recommend process improvements to enhance product quality and efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards, procedures, and customer requirements.
• Maintain accurate documentation and communicate project status to stakeholders.
• Help drive continuous improvement efforts that positively impact department performance.

Essential Functions:

• Utilizes engineering background and expertise to communicate between team members and customer counterparts to provide assurance that the hardware is compliant to specifications. Handles and communicates deviations/ nonconformance at different levels within the organization. Understands and communicates typical aerospace processes (machining, welding, non-destructive testing, etc.) and how they are applied to the hardware being manufactured.
• Applies modern quality principles, concepts, and methods to routine aerospace and manufacturing operation, including Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools.
• Interprets engineering drawings and specifications, customer quality requirements, and company quality requirements to ensure compliance with the customer's expectations.
• Participates in the review and disposition of nonconforming product.
• Interfaces with the Material Review Board (MRB) to provide technical justification when a nonconformance to mutually agreed specifications is determined.

Education:

• Requires Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience