Quality Engineer I (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-10-01

Country:

United States of America

Location:

FL410: Largo FL MFG 7887 Bryan Dairy Road , Largo, FL, 33777 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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

U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

Raytheon Company, Managed by Collins Aerospace

We are seeking a skilled Quality Engineer I to join our Quality Team at our Largo, FL facility.

The Quality Engineer I will provide support to ensure compliance with contractual, company, and regulatory requirements. In this role, you will apply your engineering skills to develop and deploy effective and efficient methods for verifying and accepting processes and products, including the use of quantitative and qualitative tools. Use analytical tools and methods to improve product quality, minimize inspection and manufacturing problems.

This is a full time, 100% on site position. Must be able to travel periodically (up to 10%) to support customer, company and program requirements.

Relocation is not provided for this role.

What you will do:

• Assure hardware products and associated test equipment meet quality requirements within schedule and cost
• Plan and implement key process controls to assure “built-in” quality
• Provide program team with analyses of the performance of the program’s processes against performance requirements and quality of products against customer quality requirements.
• Perform First Article Inspections in accordance with AS9102 requirements
• Perform Process Failure Modes & Effects Analysis on processes and products to prevent product defects and mitigate risk 
• Assure configuration management is implemented and maintained, including reviewing and concurring with work product changes and releases
• Develop product acceptance techniques and plans 
• Lead and support factory and product process improvements 
• Lead and support root cause and corrective action activities 
• Lead and support layered process assessments
• Review and approve all manufacturing, inspection and test procedures, instructions and standard operating plans
• Support Mission Assurance requirements for an electronic assembly and integration area with high product mix where review and quality disposition of products is essential
• Interface with customer source inspection representatives
• Act on all applicable material, product and equipment alerts to prevent impact to product reliability using the nonconformance and/or purge process 
• Complete data preparation, analyses and reporting
• Manage dropped and damaged hardware processing and incident reporting

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires Bachelor’s degree (typically in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)) and less than 2 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations 
• 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.
• Demonstrated competency in the application of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Access, MS Project, etc.
• Must be an independent contributor with minimal required supervision.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• 2 Years of relevant Quality related work experience within a manufacturing environment

• J-STD-001 knowledge
• Experience with AS9100 Quality Management systems
• Experience with AS9102 First Article requirements
• Practical experience of Six Sigma, Lean, 5S methodologies (e.g. Kaizen, Lean)
• Statistical Process Control (SPC), Capability Analysis
• Design of Experiments (DOE), and Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA) 
• Experience in aerospace-related manufacturing environment 
• American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Engineer Certification 

What We Offer :

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government custom