Principal Quality Engineer - Strategic

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Quality Operations

Bring your experience and data driven thinking, collaborative spirit, and innovative ideas to help us ensure product safety and reliability, customer safety and satisfaction, and compliance to quality standards and regulatory requirements.

What you’ll be doing as a Strategic Principal Quality Engineer

The Strategic Principal Program Quality Engineer performs multi-faceted strategic and operational-level assignments across military and commercial programs, enterprise factories and facilities, and departments. The strategic Principal QE will lead cross functional teams in preventive, corrective, and continuous improvement projects that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the Quality Management System.

· Serve as the primary Quality point of contact for actions to resolve quality issues with suppliers, manufacturing centers, and assembly centers for assigned programs.

· Lead Quality Engineering assignments requiring independent evaluation, selection, and application of standard Quality Engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria using judgment and ingenuity in making adaptations and modifications.

· Lead and mentor cross-functional teams in corrective action and continuous improvement to enhance quality performance and compliance to aerospace standards, regulatory requirements, engineering requirements, policies, and procedures.

· Perform Quality Management System assignments requiring AS9100 and AS9110 system knowledge, auditing, manufacturing process reviews, root cause and corrective action analysis, process and procedure development and revision, data analysis and reporting, preventing, and containing quality issues from becoming quality escapes to customers, communicating highly technical quality issues with integrated operations leadership, program engineering, and regulatory and customer representatives.

· Lead and manage teams in the development of new and revision of existing policies and procedures.

· Interface with Supplier Quality Assurance to collaborate and facilitate supplier quality issue resolution.

· Lead quality and process engineering teams in the performance of QMS and manufacturing process reviews and audits.

· Coach and develop junior quality engineers, to include with Lean Six Sigma processes and tools for root cause corrective in response to quality or compliance issues.

· Support and advise the Quality Culture and Compliance team in their planning and execution of compliance activities.

· Coach, mentor, and support QEs in the development of Quality Program Plans for new development programs.

· Participate in Contract Data Requirements List development, review and delivery to the customer as required by the assigned project(s).

· Assist with performing or facilitating material testing/analysis evaluations on special projects.

· Assist in developing fabrication/build processes and standards.

· Participate in Material Review Board (MRB) for quality nonconformances for disposition activities.

· Interface with internal/external organizations and systems in performance of the assigned Quality Engineering functions.

· Communicate at an executive level in both written and verbal, with all the interfacing functions.

· Maintain exemplary interpersonal and leadership skills necessary to lead through technical and professional expertise and experience.

Skills You Bring To this Role

• Strong knowledge of Quality Management Systems, standards (AS9100 and AS9110), and concepts.
• Superb lean six sigma (LSS) root cause corrective action skills coupled with strong data oriented, analytical, and complex problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Must be able to build and maintain effective relationships within Bell and with customers and regulatory agencies to confidently communicate complex technical issues completely and concisely.
• Software system knowledge and skills (MS Word, Power Point, Excel, CAMs, MES, Power BI, SAP, CAMs).

What you need to be successful

• We are looking for innovative problem solvers with a passion for product and customer safety and for nurturing a culture of quality and compliance.
• Bachelor's Degree with a major in engineering or an engineering-related field strongly preferred. Experience could be considered in lieu of degree.
• Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt or, Black Belt certification strongly preferred. Experience could be considered in lieu of degree.

What we offer you in return

• · You’ll be off every other Friday with our 9/80 work schedule
• · 80 hours of Personal Time Off (PTO)
• · 120 hours Vacation time
• · 12-13 paid holidays per year
• · 6 weeks parental leave
• · Tuition reimbursement
• · Competitive salary
• · Comprehensive health insurance
• · On-site clinic, pharmacy, physical therapy, and licensed counselor
• · Access to more than 11 Employee Resource Groups

· And so much more

It’s time to make your mark on the future of aviation. Join us on this mission, and let’s make history together.

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