Senior Specialist, Program Quality Engineer

Our client provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains.
THE JOB
As a Senior Specialist, Program Quality Engineer your roles and responsibilities will include:

• Develops, modifies, implements and maintains quality plans for processing materials into partially finished or finished products.
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place and being met in all phases of the program lifecycle, from program capture (proposals) to program closure.
• Ensures all Program Quality requirements are met thru the program life cycle.
• Primary point of contact for Program Quality
• Identifies and reports on program status and manages cost to budget.
• Work with Program Management, Engineering, Suppliers and Manufacturing to ensure a smooth transition from concept to prototype to production.
• Perform Contract review for Quality requirements and implement appropriate actions to fulfill those requirements such as Quality plans, FAI (First Article Inspection) Customer PDR, CDR reviews, Customer audits and act as final review and sign-off for product shipments to the Customer.
• Chairing material, failure, and anomaly review boards (MRB, FRB, ARB).
• Experience in leading Program Quality Engineering teams on large government defense programs projects with direct responsibilities in the following:
  • Supporting proposal activities cost control account management; familiar with interpreting contractual requirements to generate functional requirements that become inputs to Basis of Estimates (BOE)
  • Effectively supporting end-to-end quality program contract deliverables
  • Strong communication skills reporting to senior leaders within the organization and customer.
  • Knowledge and experience in key Quality functions such as; quality planning, contract review, creating quality procedures and documentation, inspection, root cause, corrective and preventive actions, MRB/non-conforming disposition, internal and external process audits and assessments, and CCB process.
  • Strong data analytics experience trending quality performance history and project management skills to lead process improvement.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Most importantly, you need to be a passionate Senior Specialist, Program Quality Engineer who enjoys his work and is considered to be one of the best within your organization. The ideal Senior Specialist, Program Quality Engineer would be someone with deep experience in many (if not all) of the following:

• Bachelor s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience in manufacturing engineering, design and development engineering and/or systems engineering in electro-mechanical systems.
• Experience with Configuration Control Management.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge in project management
• Working knowledge of the practical application of ISO9001:2015/AS9100:2016 ( AS9100:2016 certified lead auditor preferred )
• Working knowledge/ability to be certified in the following standards including but not limited to: IPC-A-610, IPA-A-620 or J-STD-001.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer
• Experience in Product Assurance, Software Quality Assurance, and Quality Control

Preferred Qualifications:

• Capability Maturity Model Integration Certification (CMMI)
• Lean / Six-Sigma Green/Black Belt.
• Experience with performing Failure Analysis (FA) and Construction Analysis (CA) utilizing the necessary electrical tests and measurements.
• Familiar with or experience with assembly of complex mechanisms and assemblies.
• Experience with geometric dimensioning and tolerances (GD&T) and APQP.

We understand that even if you are a seasoned Senior Specialist, Program Quality Engineeryou may not have all the skills listed here. If you are a good at what you do and have a willingness to learn, lets talk.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Compensation: Based on Experience. One of the best in the industry
Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree
Minimum Experience: 5+ to 7 years experience
Type of position: Full time Permanent Position with benefits
Telecommute: No
Location: Van Nuys, California
Relocation accepted: Yes