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Principal Quality Engineer
| Company | RTX |
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| Location | McKinney, TX, USA |
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| Salary | $101000 – $203000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of eight (8) years of prior relevant experience
- Experience with electronics manufacturing and assembly
- Experience with metrology, measurement resources and practices
- Experience with product acceptance and/or corrective action response
- Proficiency with creating presentations and technical reports, using the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with team members, customers, and suppliers to solve difficult problems
- Use critical thinking and problem-solving techniques to resolve manufacturing defects/problems and improve efficiency
- Participate in continuous improvement activities to improve quality, increase efficiency and reduce cost
- Perform data preparation, analyses, and reporting
- Ensure manufacturing processes, test equipment and processes, and product builds comply with Quality and Engineering requirements
- Attend daily tier meetings to discuss and drive resolution on safety, quality, delivery, and productivity issues that hinder customer satisfaction
- Drive resolution of nonconforming material with cross-functional support team
- Conduct Layered Process Assessments in the factory
- Perform and support audits to ensure compliance with requirements
- Support root cause and corrective action activities
- Support Process Failure Modes & Effects Analysis on processes and products to prevent product defects and mitigate risk
- Support implementation of product control plans
- Act on applicable material, product, and equipment alerts to prevent impact to product reliability using the nonconformance and/or purge process
- Manage dropped and damaged hardware processing and incident reporting
Preferred Qualifications
- Effective interpersonal skills and ability to work well with team members, customers, and suppliers
- Ability to exercise sound judgement and apply decision-making skills with limited supervisory intervention
- Ability to effectively prioritize multiple tasks
- Thorough organizational, collaborative, and communication skills
- Knowledge with the application of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) (AS9145)
- Practical experience with CORE/Six Sigma methodologies (e.g. Kaizen, Lean, Define/Measure/Analyze/Improve/Control, and Define/Measure/Analyze/Design/Verify) and resources (e.g. Analysis of Variance, Statistical Process Control, Capability Analysis, Design of Experiments, and Measurement Systems Analysis)
- Experience in aerospace-related manufacturing environment
- Experience with AS9100 Quality Management systems
- Experience with Project Management or Risk and Opportunity Management
