Quality Engineer 3
Spirit AeroSystems designs and builds aerostructures for both commercial and defense customers. With headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit operates sites in the U.S., U.K., France and Malaysia. The company's core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components for the world's premier aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems focuses on affordable, innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions to support customers around the globe.
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Work Location: Kinston, NC
Key Accountabilities:
- Develops processes, systems, and equipment that ensure the quality, reliability, and system safety of company or procured products and services
- Provides quality system design and analysis review to validate the integrity of quality decisions that affect products and services
- Analyzes contractual, product definition, and specification requirements for the development or modification of methods, procedures, and metrics needed to ensure that quality standards and practices are attained
- Analyzes and provides material review dispositions for nonconforming materials, parts, and equipment
- Performs scientific evaluations and analyses and processes audits
- Tests and approves products, processes, equipment, and measurement systems
- Ensures that resulting processes provide for configuration management
- Participates in design and product reviews to ensure that producibility, inspect ability, reliability, safety, Quality System integrity, and business process management objectives are met
- Performs such research as benchmarking to industry standards; analyzes and compiles performance reports and process control statistics in order to determine and improve process capability or product quality
- Performs root cause analyses
- Recommends and supports the implementation of corrective actions that are necessary to reduce or eliminate nonconformance to design specifications
- Interfaces with company employees, suppliers, customers, and regulatory agencies to ensure compliance with contractual, company, and regulatory requirements
- Develops and uses statistical methodologies to ensure that specified levels of safety, reliability, and process capability are achieved, maintained, or improved
- Define process flow, performs PFMEA & Control plan
- Ability to put all PPAP documents together & submit to customer for approval
- Ability to perform Gage R&R, SPC, Cp / CPk
- Ability to implement a Quality Management System for a new program
Requirements:
- Requires educational credentials meeting the Spirit classification standards for engineers and typically 5 to 8 years' experience in a related classification / position OR a Master’s degree with 3 to 6 years' experience in a related classification / position OR a PhD or JD with 0 to 3 years' experience in a related classification / position
- Bachelor's of Science in Aerospace, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering or other related course of study from an ABET accredited University
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Aerospace / Automotive manufacturing, OEM, or 1st or 2nd Tier suppliers
- Strong experience with RCCA (root cause/corrective action) / 8D Methodology
- Basic knowledge of CATIA software to review drawings
- Basic knowledge of SAP
- A high-level of proficiency with Microsoft Office (mainly Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
- Proficiency with PFMEA, Control plan, PPAP & APQP
- Proficiency with Statistical Process Control
- Experience with the implementation of a new program
- Ability to travel to customers & suppliers as needed
Spirit AeroSystems is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law.