Quality Engineer

Location: Mount Baldy

Quality Engineer

Job Summary

Provides quality engineering and hands-on quality support to ensure inspections, validation activities, nonconformances, and quality records are effective, compliant, and completed on time across the Apple Valley and Ontario manufacturing facilities. Supports receiving, in-process, first piece, final inspection, and AS9102 First Article Inspection (FAIR) activities as needed. Supports calibration and document control interfaces, technical contract review, IQ/OQ/PQ validation, RCCA, NC and CAPA management, MRB activities, and quality performance reporting.

Ensures compliance with AS9100 and ISO 9001 standards while performing inspection and quality engineering functions as required.

This position is an individual contributor role with no direct supervisory or personnel management responsibilities.

Essential Job Functions

Support day-to-day QC activities and provide hands-on inspection support across receiving, in-process, first piece, final inspection, and AS9102 First Article Inspection (FAIR) activities as needed to support workload, production schedules, or customer requirements across Apple Valley and Ontario facilities.

Develop and maintain inspection plans and risk-based inspection strategies based on product requirements, process risk, historical performance, and customer or regulatory requirements.

Prepare, review, and support AS9102 FAIR packages, including dimensional verification, objective evidence collection, and documentation completeness.

Program, operate, and support calibration of measurement and test equipment, including CMM, optical, laser, and multisensory systems, support calibration system compliance.

Support document control activities and maintain inspection records, validation files, calibration logs, nonconformance records, CAPA documentation, FAIR packages, and KPI data in a compliant state to support audit readiness.

Support technical quality review of customer contracts, purchase orders, and flowed-down requirements to identify applicable inspection, validation, documentation, and compliance obligations.

Support compliance with AS9100 and ISO 9001 through inspection practices, validation activities, documentation discipline, and technical quality awareness.

Support and/or develop IQ, OQ, and PQ validation activities for equipment, tooling, processes, and process changes, including protocol development, execution support, documentation, and reporting.

Lead and support Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) activities and manage assigned Nonconformances (NCs) and CAPAs from initiation through investigation, corrective action implementation, verification of effectiveness, and closure.

Support Material Review Board (MRB) activities through technical evaluation, data analysis, risk assessment, documentation, and disposition support.

Serve as a technical interface for customer quality issues and complaints, including investigation support, data analysis, corrective action development, and preparation of technical responses in coordination with Quality Management.

Analyze inspection, quality, and process data to identify trends and systemic risks; recommend and support corrective and preventive actions.

Develop, maintain, analyze, and report quality KPIs, and provide trend analysis and data-driven insights to Quality Management and cross-functional teams to support continuous improvement and Management Review.

Support customer portal submissions related to inspection data, FAIRs, validations, NCs, CAPAs, KPI reporting, and customer complaint responses.

Support internal and external audits by preparing objective evidence, explaining technical decisions, and supporting corrective action responses.

Perform advanced inspection and quality engineering activities, including AS9102 FAIR, APQP, PPAP, and programming of CMM / Optical / Laser systems, as required.

Provide technical input and support for quality and inspection training, including development or review of training materials related to inspection methods, measurement systems, FAIR, validation, and quality system requirements.

Additional Duties

Spreadsheets and dashboards for quality and inspection data

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