Title:  Specialist Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Title: Specialist, Supplier Quality Engineer

Requisition Number: 21174

Job Location: Mason, OH

Schedule: 9/80

Essential Functions:

• Implement, interpret, and utilize metrics toward process improvement activities.
• Manage a portfolio of ~25 suppliers (mechanical components, electronics components, wiring, optics, PWBs and CCAs).
• Audit assigned suppliers in compliance with L3 internal policies and procedures.
• Review and approve PPAP, APQP, and FAIR packages from suppliers.
• Utilize sense of urgency to act to prevent or correct problems with products and post-delivery defects.
• Assist in process improvement and process problem solutions on the factory floor.
• Review Engineering and Manufacturing information on new and revised designs, specifications and bills of materials; production, tool and test equipment drawings; production and tool plans; operations and routing sheets: production, storage and shipping methods, and to assure that products meet customers' requirements.
• Provide thorough and practical solutions to a wide range of technical problems utilizing manufacturing or engineering abilities.
• Effectively interface and collaborate with Product Quality Engineering with  customer requirements flow-down
• Apply effective interpretation and application of Quality Standards, such as AS9100, IS)-9001, J-Stds, IPC standards, etc.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience and a combination of 5 years of Quality Engineer, Electrical, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineer experience.
• Experience in reading and interpreting electrical designs/blueprints of complex nature.
• Mechanical and/or electrical components experience. 
• Working knowledge of manufacturing processes and quality standards. 
• Must be knowledgeable of AS9100, ISO9001, NADCAP standards, J-STD Workmanship, ANSI J-Standards (Class 3) and IPC Workmanship Standards (Class 3) and TipQA.
• Experience with problem-solving tools such as 8D, Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, and CAPA.
• Experience in working and communicating effectively in a team environment.
• Experience working in a dynamic environment with multiple and changing priorities.
• Experience with auditing suppliers’ QMS.
• Must be a United States Citizen.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Lean Manufacturing and Green Belt Certification
• Bachelor's Degree
• Aerospace or Defense Manufacturing experience.
• ASQ® Certified Quality Engineer Certificate
• Electrical, Mechanical Engineering and Electro-Optical experience

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