Manufacturing Supplier Quality Engineer

Date Posted:

2025-05-29

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA101: Andover MA 350 Lowell St Essex 350 Lowell Street Essex, Andover, MA, 01810 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

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. 

Join our Manufacturing Supplier Quality Engineering team and work on solving supplied material issues impacting our factories.  This high visibility and on-site position will focus on resolution of any nonconformance in supplied material ensuring root cause and corrective actions are completed.  You will be a key player working with leaders in Operations, Quality, Program management and Engineering to solve problems on our nations most advanced defense systems.  As one of the initial members of this you need you will also be helping define the role with an overall vision of reducing the impact of supplier nonconformance issues in the factories.

What You Will Do

• Your on-site presence will allow immediate response to potential issues with supplier material and be present for factory tier meetings and working seamlessly with the Operations and Quality teams in each factory.

• Primarily support the Circuit Card Manufacturing area to alleviate and resolve supplier caused disruptions and provide additional support to other factory areas when needed.

• Run metric reports and data analytics to review data to drive appropriate improvement action.

• Engage in improvement activities to reduce supplier caused rework.

• Review quality notifications to ensure adequacy of information.

• Drive continuous improvement in how we resolve supplier nonconformance issues to reduce their impact to the factories.

• Ensure root-cause analysis and corrective solutions are fully implemented when non-conformances impact the factory. 

• Use lessons learned from supplied material non-conformances to reduce future risk across the supply chain.

• Identifying and supporting continuous product / process improvements using statistical / analytical tools such as APQP and lean manufacturing methodologies

• Working with other Quality functions and cross-functional teams to affect rapid closure of issues utilizing analytical capabilities and communications skills.

• Systematically translate, analyze, and prioritize customer needs, legal and contractual requirements, variances to predicted/targeted values

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Science, Technology, or Math and a minimum of 8 years of Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supplier Management or related field.

• Experience using either Aerospace or commercial equivalent preventative tools – APQP, PPAP, SPC, FMEA, etc.

• Experience with Root Cause Corrective Action processes

• Experience with commercial and aerospace / defense regulations and standards - i.e. AS9100, AS9102, ISO-9000, ISO-9001, AS9145

• Experience with hardware inspection techniques

• The ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance prior to the start date. U.S. citizen‐ ship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Qualifications We Prefer

• Experience and proven success building and maintaining collaborative business relationships with suppliers, customers or internal team partners (both internal and external to Raytheon).

• Six Sigma, Lean and / or American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certification (CQE, CQM/OE CSQE, CQA, CRE, etc.)

• Experience in DoD product and process over‐ sight including requirements, build, integration, test and delivery

• Experience with Export/Import Compliance procedures and regulations

• Experience with different product technologies (electrical, mechanical, electro‐ mechanical, energetics, CCAs)

What We Offer

Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connec