Quality Assurance Engineer

Description: This requisition is for a Level-3 Hardware Production Quality Engineer at the*** business unit in Oldsmar, FL. The position will work with Material Program Managers (MPM) and Production Quality Program Managers (QPM) on Product Quality Assurance (PQA) work tasks/priorities and functionally collaborates with the *** MST PQA Center of Excellence (COE) Manager. The candidate must have a demonstrated history of strong performance and ability to take initiative across a variety of QA responsibilities/tasks on development and/or sustainment programs. The candidate is expected to quickly come-up to speed with the diverse product lines, Hardware PQA work scope, technical requirements, program risks, and delivery milestone schedule. The Quality Engineer's responsibilities include, but are not limited to: -Identify root causes and associated corrective actions, evaluate process/product performance, and participate/work with the engineering and production counterparts on program activities to assure processes and products are compliant to contractual requirements and proactive actions taken to prevent reoccurrence. -Ability to evaluate and disposition production nonconforming hardware and analyze defect data to identify systemic issues and trends -Drive Lessons learned and utilize new technologies to improve Quality operations -Provide inputs to the Production QPM on product QA tasking, as required, to ensure sound labor estimates on ECPs and ongoing proposal efforts -Participate in the program's hardware change control boards, as required -Ability to verify systems are 100% compliant to the requirements and to present systems to customer representative(s) for acceptance -Ability to support, participate and execute strategies related to the roll-out of advanced manufacturing. This includes Additive Manufacturing, Rapid Prototyping, Lean Manufacturing, etc

Basic Qualifications: - Excellent communication skills - AS9100 knowledge - Proven audit experience - Use of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - Familiarity with hardware engineering requirements development and design, and system integration and test - Good understanding of manufacturing and hardware engineering processes. - Experience with use of Statistical Process Control in a production environment. -This position requires special access to support the program and requires the selected candidate to be a US Citizen

Desired Skills: - 2+ Years of relevant experience and related 4 year degree. - DoD contract experience - Lean/Six Sigma black (or green) belt - IPC 610/620 and J-STD-001 standards - Experience interfacing with Government Customer Representatives - Experience with implementation of advanced manufacturing techniques i.e.; additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, lean manufacturing, Data Analytics and Computer Aided Inspection. -Experience with implementation of predictive Quality -Surface-mount Technology (SMT) experience