Project Quality Engineer

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Job Title:

Project Quality Engineer

Reporting To:

Manager, QA Engrg.

Work Schedule:

Onsite – Buffalo, NY

Actuation & Avionics Business Unit (Moog Space Defense Group) is recruiting for a Project Quality Engineer to join the team in East Aurora.  The Project Quality Engineer will be assigned to support Hydraulic Actuation programs with a focus on servo valve subassemblies.

The Project Quality Engineer has sole responsibility for the planning, implementation, and administration of Quality Programs and Quality Processes to assure that a system is in place which will meet or exceed contractual quality requirements and provide the required level of protection to Moog and its Customers. The Project Quality Engineer must assure optimum utilization of manpower resources in achievement of corporate and divisional production objectives.

To be considered for the Project Quality Engineer role, here’s what you’ll need to bring with you:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical, Industrial or Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of 10 years of experience in manufacturing. 

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in a Quality Engineering role in a manufacturing environment including experience with AS9100, ASME Y14.5, IPC-A-600, IPC-A-610, IPC-A-620, NASA-8739, MIL standards or other similar quality management system standards

• Minimum of 8 years of experience with the following:  

  • Root Cause Analysis

  • Handling product or processing of non-conformances, including in process-oriented environments that deal with mission critical products

  • AS9102 First Article Inspection Report generation

• Specialized technical knowledge of complex electronic, electrohydraulic, or electromechanical products as well as manufacturing, assembly, and functional test methods. 

• Must be a proficient user of various statistical, spreadsheet, word processing, and database software packages

• Strong knowledge of statistical methods in order to develop solutions to complex problems, continuous improvement and process monitoring problems.

• Servo valve subassemblies experience preferred but not required.

• Working in an electronics lab environment and understand all the protocols for handling electronic hardware and test equipment such as ESD and FOD. (preferred but not required)

• Lean/Six Sigma experience (certification preferred)

• Ability to obtain a U.S. DoD Secret Security Clearance. 

As a Project Quality Engineer you will:

• Inspection Planning: Develop complex production & development inspection plans for receiving inspection, manufacturing, assembly & test, engineering procedures, and first article inspections.

• Quality Planning: Planning, development, implementation, and administration of cost effective and complex Quality Programs. These activities require the development of traceability plans, contamination plans, configuration control plans for hardware and documentation, and the development of other written plans for customer approval.

• Contract Compliance: Assure compliance with contractual issues for complex programs relative to quality, including coordination of customer, government, regulatory agency audits, and flow-down of contract requirements to suppliers and appropriate Moog disciplines.

• Project Engineering: The Project Quality Engineer performs varied technical tasks which are non‑routine such as product improvement studies, process improvement studies, and development of new systems & procedures. These studies require the mastery of analysis techniques such as SPC, regression, statistics, and Design of Experiments.

• Training: Train and educate functional groups in the areas of Statistical Process Control, Gauge Variation, Designed Experiments, and Program specific contractual quality requirements.

• Program Support: Provide technical assistance to Manufacturing, A & T, Vendors, Customers, and other Engineering disciplines in the resolution of fabrication, and field related problems. This support typically requires the application of a creative approach to complex problem solving.  Travel to suppliers to complete source inspections and address compliance concerns wi