Sr. Specialist, Quality Engineering
Rochester, New York
Job ID 15182L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.
Job Title: Senior Specialist, Quality Engineering
Job Code: 15182
Job Location: Rochester, NY
Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off
Job Description:
Senior professional with strong knowledge of quality principles and broad knowledge of project management. Manages complex projects or processes with general oversight. Communicates within and outside of own function to gain cooperation on operational processes, practices, and procedures. Makes moderate to substantial improvements to systems and processes. Contributes to achievement of departmental goals and operating plans with direct impact on the departmental results.
Essential Functions:
- Assures Focus Factory compliance to L3Harris procedures, specifications and ISO standards.
- Enforces the use of data and understanding of risks to drive decisions to protect the customer
- Performs data analysis including production yield, process and test capability.
- Drives team to develop and execute meaningful actions to improve performance.
- Uses data to drive mistake-proofing and focuses on quality at the source.
- Leads cross-functional teams utilizing formal root cause tools to investigate and solve internal/ customer quality problems by identifying the root cause and implementing corrective actions (CAPA).
- Ensures change control discipline including documentation, verification and validation.
- Uses the L3Harris e3 (excellence, everywhere, everyday) continuous improvement process to drive proactive process improvements to improve quality and reduce waste
Qualifications:
- Requires strong knowledge of job area. Typically viewed as having a specialty within discipline. May have broad knowledge of project management. Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Six Sigma Belt Certification a plus
- Minitab skills a plus
- Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.)
- Experience using root cause investigation tools (5 Why, Fishbone Diagram, Kepner Tregoe)
Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
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