Sr. Associate, Quality Engineer

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title:  Sr. Associate, Quality Engineer

Job Code: 40132

Job Location: Onsite - Redmond, WA

Job Schedule: 9/80:  Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

Senior Associate, Quality Engineer works under general supervision and may be responsible for entire projects or processes providing guidance, coaching, training, and delegation to other employees within the job area.  Communicates with contacts within and outside of their own department with the occasional responsibilities of communicating with customers or vendors external to the organization. Make moderate enhancements or improvements to systems and processes to solve problems. Works to achieve operational targets with moderate impact on department results.

Essential Functions:

• Utilizes engineering background and expertise to communicate between team members and customer counterparts to provide assurance that the hardware is compliant to specifications. Handles and communicates deviations/ nonconformance at different levels within the organization. Understands and communicates typical aerospace processes (machining, welding, non-destructive testing, etc.) and how they are applied to the hardware being manufactured
• Applies modern quality principles, concepts, and methods to routine aerospace and manufacturing operation, including Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools
• Interprets engineering drawings and specifications, customer quality requirements, and company quality requirements to ensure compliance with the customer's expectations
• Implements IMS policies, procedures and standards for Quality Management that drive a preventive, zero defect culture of quality, and customer satisfaction
• Drives continuous improvements of the quality system and manufacturing processes

• Provide daily, hands-on quality support to production operations by monitoring processes, responding to quality concerns, and addressing operator questions, as required, to support program during production phase

• Evaluates and dispositions of customer returns, in-process defects, and addresses day-to-day quality concerns.  Rapidly implementing containment and corrective actions, as applicable
• Participates in the review and disposition of nonconforming products, including coordinating material review board (MRB) dispositions.
• Performs documentation reviews in support of hardware acceptance (HAR) and pre-shipment (PSR) activities
• Partners with Project and Manufacturing Engineering to complete qualifications, identify critical to quality testing and inspections, implement test and inspection plans and processes, and generate test reports/memos
• Reviews of new contracts to determine the quality assurance requirements and flow down requirements to the appropriate level 
• Must be eligible to obtain a DOW Secret Security Clearance which requires US Citizenship 

 Qualifications:

• Requires Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience
• Graduate Degree or equivalent with a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience
• 2+ years of experience working in a manufacturing enviroment 

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to effectively establish positive working relationships with various