Job Title:  Specialist, Quality Engineer

Job Code:  21365

Job Location:  Orange, VA

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Aerojet Rocketdyne Segment of L3Harris is seeing a Rocket Motor Quality Engineering Specialist to join the Orange, VA team.  This position supports Defense propulsion manufacturing programs and is an exciting opportunity to take your career to the next level. Individuals in this role will gain exposure to some very specialized and unique manufacturing processes in the Aerospace industry

Essential Functions: 

This position support defense propulsion programs to ensure customer specifications and engineering requirements are effectively met. Under general direction, this position performs quality engineering assignments requiring a wide application of advanced principles, theories and concepts on the manufacturing floor while working closely with different disciplines in an integrated product team. A breakdown of the essential functions of this role are as follows:

• 30% - Provide innovative, thorough and practical solutions to a wide range of technical challenges, involving the conventional utilization of quality engineering techniques. Conceive and plan projects involving the development of new methods of dimensional inspection objectives. Review engineering designs and specifications for translation into inspection verification methods. Develop and apply new and advanced methods to meet new or unusual requirements. Keep current within area of specialty in support of production projects.

• 25% - Review manufacturing process planning to ensure compliance with drawing, specification and contractual requirements. Provide technical guidance to less senior quality engineers, inspection, manufacturing and test personnel.

• 25% - Develop, implement and review corrective action and process improvements by benchmarking practices in other related areas.

• 10% - Perform failure mode effect analysis of product design disclosure documents and specifications, utilizing inspection analysis tools and six sigma principles.

• 10% - Determine gage and instrumentation adequacy. Perform gage R & R studies to determine process capabilities, needs and future usage.

• Up to 10% business travel. 

• Ability to obtain US Security Clearence. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior mechanical, chemical or aerospace engineeringexperience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 2 years of prior mechanical, chemical or aerospace engineering experience.  In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior mechanical, chemical or aerospace engineering engineering experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Degree in Mechanical, Chemical or Aerospace Engineering is preferred.

• Successful candidates should be detail-oriented, experienced in conducting root cause analysis and recommending data-driven corrective actions.

• CQE or LEAN / Six Sigma certifications strongly desired.

• Aerospace industry experience with AS9100, ISO9001is preferred.

• Experience working with and around chemicals and/or explosives is preferred.

• Working knowledge of electrical and mechanical assemblies is a plus.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite of software.

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