Senior Quality Engineer – DoD NGSRI Program

Raytheon; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 87,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Raytheon in Tucson, AZ is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to strengthen the quality culture on the Next Generation Short Range Interceptor (NGSRI) program. You will drive quality assurance activities, compile acceptance packages, verify data for completeness, and coordinate with IPTs, engineering, and operations to ensure program success.

This onsite role requires US citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 3 years’ experience
• Relevant experience is quality, engineering, operations, program management or manufacturing.
• Experience with ISO 9001 and/or AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• Working experience translating external and/or internal requirements and command media.
• Experience organizing technical/quality documentation (e.g. quality plans, reports, customer documentation, etc.) into structured compliant review packages
• Experience reading and interpreting design drawings
• Experience supporting continuous improvement processes and/or RCCA for issue mitigation

Responsibilities

• Managing the product acceptance process for NGSRI creating the acceptance package documentation, reviewing data for completeness, accuracy and overall compliance with applicable customer requirements.
• Quality Management System processes and process control documentation ensuring they are compliant with requirements, objectives and/or contracts while identifying issues, recommending solutions, and creating quality documentation.
• Assist PM, Engineering & Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to define requirements for new products from a compliance and contractual perspective.
• Aid Quality Working Groups to diagnose and mitigate product non-conformities identified internally and externally by driving RCCA and Non-Conformance Management to conclusion.
• Provide advice to the area Lead and Program Managers on the quality aspects of the work being undertaken.
• Understand Product Development Lifecycles to provide key Quality inputs during the different stages.
• Perform audits of products and processes within a program or business
• 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.
• Develop partnerships with program and production leaders, IPTs, and other functions to drive issue resolution and implement improved processes.
• Implement strategic and tactical Quality and Mission Assurance plans that will directly affect the program’s execution and influence.
• Generate new Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ) projects to reduce costs on the program.
• Guide Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) in accordance with AS9145, as applicable.
• Provide Quality oversight to technical design organizations and perform program reviews.
• Interpret command media in compliance to work being performed.
• Possible domestic business travel as needed (10%)

Skills

Quality Assurance

Cross-functional collaboration

Root Cause Analysis

Audits

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Windchill

PRism

Microsoft Office

Job description

Raytheon in Tucson, AZ is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to strengthen the quality culture on the Next Generation Short Range Interceptor (NGSRI) program. You will drive quality assurance activities, compile acceptance packages, verify data for completeness, and coordinate with IPTs, engineering, and operations to ensure program success.

This onsite role requires US citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance.