Senior Program Quality Engineer

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

Senior Program Quality Engineer (PQE)

Tucson, AZ (Onsite)

Onsite – requires U.S. citizenship and an active DoD Secret clearance.

• Serve as a member of the TOW Program team, ensuring successful program performance, deliver conforming products/services through effective collaboration and compliance to processes and procedures.
• Drive integration and implementation of cross-functional teams to ensure alignment to quality and customer requirements per the program quality plan.
• Serve as a program quality liaison across customer organizations (Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) and United States Government (USG)), as well as relevant factories and engineering labs as first responder for quality issues and concerns related to development and production products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and partner with program management to define and implement quality improvement strategies.
• Support supplier quality and supplier engineering efforts to help ensure compliance to the supplier program quality plan.
• Review and approve changes to the technical data package, assign actions when necessary and complete actions in a timely manner when assigned. This includes but is not limited to:
  Peer reviews, Engineering Review/Change Control Board (ERB/CCB) and/or Design reviews.
• Ensure all development hardware (Engineering, Proof of Design and Proof of Manufacturing) are appropriately documented in the quality history records and align to quality and customer requirements per the program quality plan.

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience.
• Working experience with Quality Management Systems, to include ISO 9001, AS9100 and/or AS9102.
• Working experience overseeing teams in failure and root cause analysis (RCA), corrective and preventative actions.
• Working experience interpreting technical drawings.
• Working experience with technical data package review (TDP) and document repository.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

• American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certification and/or Program Management Certification.
• Experience with Customer Oriented Results and Excellence (CORE) or another Continuous Improvement Program.
• Working experience using resources such as 5S, RCA, Process Mapping/Analysis, Lean Six Sigma (6
  
  Sigma).
• Experience with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)/AS9145 and utilizing resources such as Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Key Characteristics, Design Failure Modes, and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), Production Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) and/or Control Plans.
• Experience in First Article Inspections per AS9102.
• Experience with Configuration Control System such as Common Product Data Management (cPDM) and/or Common As-Built System (CABS).
• Experience Reviewing Statement of Work (SOW), Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCAR), Knowledge of Purchase Order Quality Requirements (Q-Notes, STAMP).
• Experience presenting, reviewing and/or approving changes through a formal Change Control Board (CCB).
• Experience comprehending and translating system requirements as well as contractual requirements to ensure full compliance is flowed down through product, assembly, and test documentation.
• Experience working as an individual contributor and in a dynamic team environment.
• Experience working with customers, suppliers, and in a team environment.

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a…