Sr. Quality Engineer Job in East Aurora, New York US
The Senior Quality Engineer has sole responsibility for the planning, implementation, and administration of complex Quality Programs to assure that a system is in place which will meet or exceed contractual quality requirements and provide the required level of protection to Moog and its Customers. The Senior Quality Engineer must assure optimum utilization of humanpower resources in achievement of corporate and divisional production objectives.
ACCOUNTABILITIES:
1.Inspection Planning: Develop complex production development inspection plans for receiving inspection, manufacturing, assembly test, engineering procedures, and first article inspections.
2.Quality Planning: Planning, development, implementation, and administration of cost effective and complex Quality Programs. These activities require the development of traceability plans, contamination plans, configuration control plans for hardware and documentation, and the development of other written plans for customer approval.
3.Contract Compliance: Assure compliance with contractual issues for complex programs relative to quality, including coordination of customer, government, regulatory agency audits, and flow-down of contract requirements to suppliers and appropriate Moog disciplines.
4.Project Engineering: The Senior Quality Engineer performs varied technical tasks which are non routine such as product improvement studies, process improvement studies, and development of new systems procedures. These studies require the mastery of analysis techniques such as SPC, regression, statistics, and Design of Experiments.
5.Training: Train and educate functional groups in the areas of Statistical Process Control, Gauge Variation, Designed Experiments, and Program specific contractual quality requirements.
6.Program Support: Provide technical assistance to Manufacturing, A T, Vendors, Customers, and other Engineering disciplines in the resolution of fabrication, and field related problems. This support typically requires the application of a creative approach to complex problem solving.
7.Failure Analysis Corrective Action: The Senior Quality Engineer is responsible to conduct complex Failure analysis by utilizing his organizational, technical knowledge, analytical and communication skills. The end result is to find the root cause and implement closed loop corrective solving.
8.Personnel: The Senior Quality Engineer provides technical direction to Quality Assurance technicians and/or Quality Engineers and may prepare and administer their performance reviews after concurring with the Quality Engineering Manager. The Senior Quality Engineer may function as a group leader.
9.Cost Estimates: Prepare complex quality assurance proposals and related cost estimates. The Quality Engineer must respond in a timely manner to requests for quotation, estimates to complete, and manpower loading estimates for departmental budget planning.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
This position requires a Bachelors degree in engineering and six years experience in Quality Engineering.
The incumbent must have technical knowledge of manufacturing, assembly, and functional test methods. The Incumbent must have mastery of statistical methods in order to develop solutions to complex problems, continuous improvement and process monitoring problems.
Strong written and verbal skills, demonstrated leadership ability, and the ability to work cooperatively within a team environment is required.
