ENGINEER, QUALITY - AEROSPACE

**Summary:** Responsible for Quality Assurance activities at the Valcor Engineering Corp. performing specialized, complex and involved assignments of a Quality engineering nature having to do with development and administration of quality control procedures and techniques. These include: - ensuring that the company’s products conform to all specifications and customer requirements, - directing/overseeing activities associated with maintaining all company certifications, and all external agency approvals such as AS9100D and ISO9001 certifications, NADCAP. - overseeing configuration management, and quality assurance processes. - Serving as the interface with customers and vendors on quality related topics. **Essential functions and Responsibilities** - Perform root cause analysis (8D,5 Whys) of identified issues and identify appropriate corrective and preventive action. - Participate in cross-functional teams in the investigation and elimination of causes of quality problems and verify effectiveness on corrective actions (Corrective Action Board). - Interface directly with customers to provide the best customer quality experience. - Perform audits as required to assure compliance with regulatory, customer, and internal requirements. - Review and assure compliance with customer blueprints, specifications and other technical and quality system documents including Purchase Orders. - Work closely with Product and Manufacturing engineering, Manufacturing and inspection personnel on procedural problems involving design, methods, tooling, costs and other areas involved in control of product quality. - As required review raw material certification and review/approve raw material released for production. - Oversee critical testing and inspection procedures and coordinate inspections with customers and inspectors; analyze and document results. - Investigate customer complaints on product quality and work closely with customer’s representatives to resolve problems. - Ensure that the company’s products conform to all specifications and customer requirements. - Become Delegated Quality Representative (Ref. AS13001) for selected customers. - Responsible for assuring that customer quality requirements have been adequately defined to permit appropriate quality planning and implementation and that the quality requirements have been met. - Facilitate the use of LEAN/ Six Sigma, and other quality tools for quality and process improvement. - Prepare and review product data package. - Establish and provide written procedures for quality assurance activities as related to product manufactured. - Participate in review and disposition or nonconforming materials. - Participate in customer audits and source inspections. - Reviews product and documentation in accordance with applicable customer, regulatory, military, and industry specifications. - Troubleshoot problems in-house and also those reported by customers including field returns as required and as they occur. - Review and approve component and final products FAI’s - Support in-process product reviews. 1. Certifications, Inspection and Audit: - oversee the activities associated with maintaining company certifications as well as external agency & customer approvals such as, but not limited to AS9100D, ISO9001, NADCAP. - Evaluate, develop and maintain activities required to audit quality effectiveness, including the planning and execution of programs of audits; procedure audits; quality-systems audits, and product audits. **Education and Skills Requirements** - 4 year technical degree or equivalent, prefer Mechanical Engineering - 4-8 years experience in various phases of Quality Assurance or equivalent in Aerospace, Defense, or Nuclear Power generation environments - Must be mobile, capable of communicating with plant personnel at all levels - Excellent written and oral communication skills; composing written reports and other communications - Superior analytical skills, capable of using current c…