Senior Program Quality Engineer (PQE) – (P3 – Senior Engineer, Quality Engineering – Tucson, AZ)

Date Posted:

2025-02-05

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AZ862: 3360 Hemisphere Loop Bldg M10 3360 East Hemisphere Loop Building M10, Tucson, AZ, 85706 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression.  We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat.  Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

We are seeking an “onsite” Senior Program Quality Engineer (PQE) supporting the Coyote program in Tucson. The PQE will support Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) as well as production contracts ensuring that program goals are accomplished while staying compliant to AS9100 requirements.

As the primary quality interface for customers and suppliers, you'll ensure the program meets all Quality & Mission Assurance requirements. This includes coordinating with functional IPTs and overseeing contracts through all IPDS phases, from design to production and sustainment

You'll develop and monitor quality metrics to drive continuous improvement initiatives, working closely with integrated teams to enforce process rigor. Supporting transition to production activities, you'll lead PFMEA, First Article Inspection, and Quality Control Plan efforts and play a key role in Material Review Board, Change Control Board, and Risk Review Board.

The candidate will collaborate closely with all cross-functional teams including systems, electrical, mechanical, operations, supply chain, and systems integration and test to guarantee that mission goals and contractual requirements have been met. If you're passionate about making an impact, we want to hear from you.

This position is an onsite role in Tucson, Arizona.

What You will Do:

• Serve as a member of the Coyote Program team, ensuring successful program performance, deliver conforming products/services through effective collaboration and compliance to processes and procedures.
• Serve as a program quality liaison across customer organizations (Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) and United States Government (USG)), as well as relevant factories and engineering labs as first responder for quality issues and concerns related to development and production products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and partner with program leadership team to define and implement quality improvement strategies.
• Support supplier quality and supplier engineering efforts to help ensure compliance to the supplier program quality plan.
• Lead and perform root cause analysis, facilitate corrective actions, and implement closed loop process controls to improve product/process predictability and capability.
• Generation of new Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ) projects to reduce costs on the program.
• Review and approve changes to the technical data package, assign actions when necessary and complete actions in a timely manner when assigned. This includes but is not limited to:  Peer reviews, Engineering Review/Change Control Board (ERB/CCB) and/or Design reviews.

Qualifications You Must Have :

• Typically requires bachelor’s degree in science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and five (5) years of relevant experience in the following;
  • Working experience with Quality Management Systems, to include ISO 9001, AS9100 and/or AS9102.
  • Working experience directing teams in failure and root cause analysis, corrective and preventative actions.
  • Working experience interpreting technical drawings.
  • Working experience with technical data package review (TDP) and document repository.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued Security Clearance. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer :

• American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certification and/or Program Management Certification.
• Experience with Customer Oriented Results and Excellence (CORE) or another Continuous Improvement Program.
• Working experience using resources such as 5S, Root Cause Analysis, Process Mapping/Analysis, Lean Six Sigma (6Sigma).
• Experience with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)/AS9145 and utilizing resources such as Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Key Characteristics, Design Failure Modes, and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), Production Failure Mod