RCCA Program Lead - Quality Engineer (Aerospace)

SQA Services, Inc.; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SQA Services, Inc. is seeking a quality engineering professional to join our team onsite at the Everett, WA client site. You will lead RCCA activities, guide root-cause analyses, and coordinate corrective actions within a highly regulated aerospace environment.

Travel to client sites as required; work with cross‑functional teams; ensure audit‑ready documentation and AS9100 compliance; strong technical writing is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent quality-engineering experience.
• Minimum 5 years in quality engineering or supplier quality within aerospace, defense, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated hands‑on root‑cause and corrective‑action experience using structured methods (8D, 5-Why, fishbone/Ishikawa).
• Working knowledge of AS9100 and experience authoring and closing formal corrective actions to a major OEM customer.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple concurrent corrective actions to schedule.
• Strong technical writing; able to produce audit‑ready and customer‑ready analyses and responses.
• Able to work onsite at the client facility in Everett, WA, with travel to client site(s) as required.

Responsibilities

• Assess client root-cause analyses and containment strategies for adequacy and rigor; disposition each as adequate, needs strengthening, or requires re-analysis.
• Prioritize the corrective-action portfolio by customer impact, Boeing due date, and recurrence/severity risk; maintain a prioritized RCCA register that drives the working cadence.
• Lead failure-mechanism analysis using SQA’s proprietary RCCA methodology and toolset; confirm root and contributing causes, identify controls over high-risk mechanisms, and assess the measurement system.
• Develop sustainable corrective action plans with clear controls to determine effectiveness of the solution.
• Responsible for clear communication to client and SQA leadership including upkeep of dashboard, due-date tracking, risk and blocker escalation, and weekly and monthly reporting.
• Prepare and support customer corrective-action response packages (e.g., 8D via SQIS) and manage customer rejections and resubmittals through approval.
• Capture analyses in the SQA RCCA toolset and export deliverables in the formats the client and customer require (Boeing 8D, STEPQ, Word, Excel, PDF).
• Partner with client Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, Planning, and Document Control to advance actions while respecting client ownership of implementation, disposition, and customer status outcomes.

Skills

Root Cause Analysis

8D Methodology

Cross-functional Leadership

Technical Writing

Education

Engineering/Quality degree or equivalent

Tools

Boeing 8D

STEPQ

Word

Excel

PDF

RCCA toolset

Job description

SQA Services, Inc. is seeking a quality engineering professional to join our team onsite at the Everett, WA client site. You will lead RCCA activities, guide root-cause analyses, and coordinate corrective actions within a highly regulated aerospace environment.

Travel to client sites as required; work with cross‑functional teams; ensure audit‑ready documentation and AS9100 compliance; strong technical writing is essential.