Quality Engineering Lead – Aerospace/Defense (9/80)

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; Hanover (MD); On-site; USD 73,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Flexible spending accounts

EAP

Education assistance

Parental leave

Paid time off

Company-paid holidays

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. in Hanover, MD is seeking a Specialist Quality Engineer to provide hands-on quality support across production, receiving inspection, testing, and supplier quality activities at the Hanover site.

The role reports as the Quality Lead for manufacturing operations, ensuring adherence to drawings, specifications, and quality processes while supporting program execution and customer deliverables.

Qualifications

• Requires practical knowledge of manufacturing quality principles, inspection methods, and quality systems.
• Experience in a manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or highly regulated environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure product compliance, configuration control, effective corrective actions, and adherence to customer, regulatory, and company quality requirements.
• Review test data packages to ensure compliance with procedures, specifications, and acceptance criteria.
• Verify traceability between hardware configuration, test results, and documentation.
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of test anomalies and discrepancies.
• Participate in product acceptance and release activities.
• Support customer inspections, source inspections, witness points, and quality-related program deliverables.
• Assist with customer audits, data package preparation, and quality documentation activities.
• Interface with program teams, customers, and internal stakeholders to resolve quality-related issues.
• Serve as a Quality Lead supporting manufacturing operations through in-process and final inspection activities.
• Provide real-time quality support to production personnel to ensure compliance with drawings, specifications, procedures, and workmanship standards.
• Review inspection results and ensure quality concerns are appropriately identified, documented escalated, and resolved.
• Drive containment activities when product or process issues are identified.

Skills

Quality engineering

Inspection methods

Quality systems

Root cause analysis

Statistical problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Graduate degree

Tools

SAP

Job description

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. in Hanover, MD is seeking a Specialist Quality Engineer to provide hands-on quality support across production, receiving inspection, testing, and supplier quality activities at the Hanover site.

The role reports as the Quality Lead for manufacturing operations, ensuring adherence to drawings, specifications, and quality processes while supporting program execution and customer deliverables.