Quality Engineer

About Vanderhorst Brothers and RTC Aerospace: 

This position is for RTC Aerospace’s sister company, Vanderhorst Brothers, Inc. (VBI) located in Simi Valley, CA. VBI is a team of highly skilled professionals from a variety of backgrounds. We work together to support our customers through expertise, cooperation, innovation, and a shared sense of urgency. We actively seek challenging projects, and we drive our industry forward by investing in the latest machinery, technology, and production techniques. 
 

RTC Aerospace is a 60-year-old aerospace manufacturer of complex, high-tolerance, difficult-to-machine parts. We have 4 facilities across the nation bringing exceptional cellular manufacturing capabilities and unique engineered solutions to our clients’ designed products. We are a company driven by ambitious individuals, working together to become an industry leader in lean-cell manufacturing. Come be a part of something exceptional at RTC Aerospace! 

How You’ll Make an Impact 

Quality Engineer will have the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to ensure compliance with customer engineering and quality requirements throughout the production process from receipt of purchase order to delivery of product. This includes customer specific quality requirements, procurement and processing requirements, document control, contract review, and job/work order planning. This position requires a high degree of concentration and multitasking. The position will report to the Quality Manager. 

What you’ll be doing as a Quality Engineer

• Working a Full-time, onsite position at our Fife, WA location.
• Contract review of customer purchase orders to ensure full understanding and compliance with quality and engineering requirements and assessment of any associated risks.
• Review and approve of raw material purchase orders.
• Review and approve of internal work orders to ensure compliance with quality and engineering requirements.
• Collaborate with planning, outside processors, and the customer to facilitate the creation and approval of controlled manufacturing plans and technique cards.
• Assists in the implementation, and administration of other QA and company activities including: risk management, configuration control, training, auditing, corrective actions, continuous improvement, and preventative actions.
• Adheres to all workplace safety guidelines, policies, and laws determined by the company, state, and federal authorities
• Performs other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications (Education, skills, and experience:

• Collaborates with external and internal customers, including Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, Engineering, and Sales staff to meet customer requirements, ensure compliance, and continue smooth flow of quality products.
• Works independently, follows instructions, can concentrate for long periods of time and is able to tolerate multiple interruptions throughout the day.
• Team player with a can-do attitude.

Preferred Qualifications (Education, skills, and experience:

• Five years’ experience in aerospace industry quality related roles.
• Proficiency in QMS and AS9100 requirements required.
• Experience with Quality Assurance, job/work order planning, D6-1276 and other OEM frozen planning requirements, OEM customer quality and engineering requirements, heat treat and processing specifications, selection of customer approved suppliers, quality requirements for procurement of raw material, contract review of customer quality and engineering requirements.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications and MRP systems required.
  
  

Physical Demands:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to do the following:

• Ability to lift or move up to 50lbs.
• Reach forward, up, down and to the side in order to move equipment.
• Continuous standing and walking throughout the workday.