Quality Engineer

Overview

HEICO is seeking a Staff Quality Engineer on our corporate team for a full time direct hire position in Hollywood, FL.

ROLE: As a Quality Leader, you will join a team of professionals within the Technical Services (TS) organization, who provide quality and engineering oversight, guidance, and assistance to Business Units (BUs) within HEICO Parts Group (HPG). In this role, you will perform mainly quality assurance tasks such as BU compliance audits to FAA regulations, corporate policies and industry standards. You may be required to support quality control and process excellence tasks/projects.

This position will have significant interaction with BUs at different levels of the organization.

• Develop and maintain mutually trustful relationships with the Technical Services team, and BU personnel.
• Assess BU compliance to HPG quality manual and policies, FAA regulations, corporate policies through a combination of desk reviews and onsite audit activities.
• Classify nonconformances and generate audit reports.
• Facilitate, and be accountable for, the closure of Corrective and Preventive Actions arising from audit activities.
• Ensure awareness of HPG corporate requirements at BU.
• Promote a quality-driven culture by applying effective quality practices and standards.
• Continuously improve HPG quality auditing tools and practices.
• Provide feedback on HPG Quality documentation to ensure regulatory compliance and alignment with business conditions; facilitate changes as warranted from feedback.
• Capture and flow best practices to BUs; harmonize BU implementation of these practices, including inspection methodologies.
• Act as a process compliance/quality assurance consultant to BU, enabling collaboration and using best practices.
• Create training material and conduct training on quality assurance topics for BUs.
• Assist in developing quality inspection plans to help BUs streamline inspection methodologies.
• Support HPG Quality Director in driving closure for customer complaints, analyzing trends, and leading root cause and corrective actions to address defect trends.
• Track waivers and mitigation plans as required.
• Conduct risk analysis for identified defect trends in partnership with BU and TS personnel.
• Assist in establishing and monitoring BU quality performance indicators based on audit results and risk analysis.
• Perform additional tasks as required by the supervisor.

• Education
  :
  Bachelor’s in Science (BS) in Industrial or Mechanical Engineering or related field from an accredited college or university and/or combination of education and experience preferred.
• Experience
  :
  • At least 5 years product realization experience; scope should include Design, Process Design and Development, Process Analysis, Source Substantiation, Quality Planning and First Article Inspection reviews.
  • Aerospace product quality experience highly preferred.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
  :
  • ASQ Certified Quality Engineer certification desirable.
  • Six Sigma Green Belt certification desirable.
• Knowledge, Skills or Abilities
  :
  • Deep understanding of quality management principles and practices such as ISO 9001, AS9100, etc.
  • Ability to interpret requirements to verify drawing and quality requirements and determine conformance of inspection outcomes. Proficient in Drawing Interpretation per ASME Y14.5 and GD&T practices.
  • Knowledge of bench layouts/various inspection methodologies.
  • FAA Orders and Policies, Advisory Circulars, Service Difficulty Reports and Airworthiness Directives:
    Ability to effectively interpret content to provide oversight and guidance.
  • Approachable with high level of emotional intelligence and the ability to negotiate effectively.
  • Effective written and verbal communication; ability to lead meetings and discussions.
  • Team-oriented and deadline-driven mindset.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office suite, SharePoint and Adobe Acrobat.
  • Ability to define problems, collect and analyze data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
  • Understanding of various business functions and cross-group dependencies/relationships.
  • Organized and detail-oriented with the ability to prioritize multiple assignments.
  • Stay current with industry best practices.
  • Ability to become accredited in two of the following within the first 12 months of service:
    Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor, and/or AS9100 Internal Auditor.

Additional Details
:

• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Quality Assurance and Engineering
• Industries:
  Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

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