About this role
About the Role Senior Specialist in Quality Engineering at L3Harris will play a pivotal role in the Design & Development phases of electro-mechanical assemblies (primarily RF Circuit Card Assemblies) and the transition to outsourced production, ensuring successful APQP and DFM implementation. You will drive data-driven improvement and sustainment initiatives and collaborate across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Program Management, and Engineering to ensure high-quality deliveries from the supply base. What You'll Do
- Perform quality engineering functions for specific phases of projects and programs, developing plans, flow charts, inspection methods, procedures, and standards to ensure all products, data, or services meet specified quality requirements.
- Generate and deploy APQP tools to ensure manufacturability of internally produced designs.
- Support product development reviews within the supply base.
- Coach on Quality Tools: Train and coach other functions inside the company on the value and utilization of quality tools, standards, and practices.
- Problem Prevention and Correction: Utilize a sense of urgency to act to prevent or correct problems with products and post-delivery defects.
- Supplier Quality Audits: Perform supplier quality audits, source inspections, and First Article Inspections in partnership with Supply Chain Management.
- Customer Quality Requirements: Interpret and flow down customer quality requirements to programs, engineering, manufacturing, and inspection via Program Quality Requirements (PQR).
- Customer Interface: Interface effectively with customers to discuss and negotiate quality requirements and specifications.
- Metrics and Process Improvement: Implement, interpret, and utilize metrics to drive process improvement projects; analyze metrics and indicators to determine opportunities for improvement, focusing on early detection and prevention of nonconformance.
- Cost Account Management: Effectively work as a cost account manager for the quality engineering elements of the program work breakdown structure.
- Risk Management: Understand and apply risk management principles as an essential part of the quality engineering work scope.
- Engineering and Manufacturing Review: Review engineering and manufacturing information on designs, specifications, and bills of materials to ensure products meet customer requirements.
- CAPA Leadership: Lead teams and perform investigations to drive Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) for nonconformance and actively participate in material review. Act as the Quality Subject Matter Expert (SME) on program and design teams. What We're Looking For
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering with a minimum of 6 years of Quality Engineering experience; graduate degree with 4+ years; or 10 years QE/Electrical/Manufacturing Engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
- Drawing Interpretation: 6+ years reading and interpreting electrical and mechanical drawings of complex nature.
- Problem-Solving Tools: 6+ years experience with 8D, APQP, Value Stream Mapping, and CAPA.
- Team Collaboration: 6+ years experience working and communicating effectively in a team environment.
- Dynamic Environment: 6+ years experience in a dynamic environment with multiple and changing priorities.
- Citizenship: Must be a United States Citizen.
- Travel: Ability to travel up to 25%. Nice to Have
- Advanced Product Quality Planning and Design for Manufacturability.
- Aerospace or Defense Manufacturing experience.
- Familiarity with AS9100, ISO9001, AS9145, AS9102, J-STD Workmanship (Class 3), ANSI J-Standards (Class 3), IPC Workmanship Standards (Class 3), Jira, and TipQA quality software.
- ASQ Certified Quality Engineer. Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range not disclosed in the posting.