Sr. Welding Quality Process Engineer

Job Highlights

Title	Sr. Specialist (Welding Process Quality Engineering)
Type	Full Time
Experience	Required
Function	Management/Manufacturing
Location	Canoga Park, CA, United States
Company	L3Harris Technologies

Company Profile

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains.

Job Profile

The company is searching for a Sr. Welding Quality Process Engineer who will be responsible for ensuring that delivered products or services conform to contractual and the Company’s requirements by designing, implementing, evaluating, and continually improving quality assurance and control methods and systems.

Translate design drawings and contractual requirements into a comprehensive, understandable, and functional quality plan; monitor and closely support manufacturing, inspection, and supplier functions that relate to product quality; coordinate with the customer the establishment of government quality requirements and material review board activities; represent quality assurance in corrective action activities; and participate in audits or product evaluations to determine the effectiveness of the quality assurance program.

Collaborate with engineering laboratory and production functions to ensure quality standards are in place.

Responsible for ensuring that quality requirements are integrated and captured in various special processes utilized in the Canoga Park facility.

Necessitates a strong understanding of industry standards, internal command media, and extensive practical experience to support the development and deployment of best practices.

Expected to coordinate with internal and external customers to quickly resolve manufacturing issues and utilize their technical background to proactively drive process improvements.

This position will have a heavy emphasis on welding and welding-related support processes.

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.
• Instead of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Work Experience

• Possess work-related experience

Duties/Responsibilities

• Coordinates communication with DCMA on quality issues, corrective action activities as well as advocacy for DCMA concerns
• Coordinates quality participation in engineering milestone reviews and the related product life cycle
• Ensures quality requirements are embedded into key manufacturing special processes, with a heavy emphasis on welding.
• Functions as a lead in the review of failure investigation activities to ensure root cause is identified and mitigating activities are identified and implemented
• Independently manages quality projects, including coordination with cross-functional team members, to ensure timely project completion.
• Leads audit and inspection preparation, resolution of audit and inspection findings, and liaises with auditing groups and inspectors through all stages of the audits
• Participates in nonconforming material control and the Material Review Board (MRB) processes
• Proactively analyzes manufacturing data to identify opportunities and implement process improvements
• Provides leadership and participates in cause and corrective action activities, failure investigations, metrics creation, and quality improvement projects
• Provides leadership in the development and implementation of inspection plans that utilize Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs), Standard Measuring Inspection (SMI) equipment, quality tool and gage processes, sample inspection, NDT, special process certification controls, and Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques
• Other responsibilities are assigned by management as necessary.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Applicable codes, rules, and regulations related to the area of assignment
• Applicable machine shop, weld, composite, propellant, electrical and assembly processes
• Basic clean room practices and methods
• Basic quality laboratory processes
• Calibrations system requirements
• Computer systems and applicable software programs such as Microsoft Office suite
• Configuration management
• Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) and Standard Measuring Inspection (SMI) equipment
• Data mining quality management data techniques
• Dimensional, visual, sample, and witness inspection processes
• ERP and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
• Failure investigation, root cause, and corrective action processes
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) techniques
• Nonconformance reporting and the Material Review Board (MRB) process
• Non-destructive test inspection processes
• Principles of quality planning and creating a quality plan
• Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
• Qualification process and testing
• Quality engineering and mission assurance principles
• Quality management system standards
• Risk management process
• Special process certifications
• Tooling/gage processes

Additional Abilities-

• Audit, interpret, and evaluate data and processes
• Use a variety of test, inspection, and measurement equipment
• Read and interpret blueprints and related specifications
• Apply and interpret Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
• Operate effectively in a team environment
• Conduct investigation, studies, and research
• Create process and program metrics to evaluate the quality of health
• Effectively communicate, both orally and in writing
• Interface effectively with external customer counterparts
• Deal with multiple tasks and deadlines set by management
• Work safely without presenting a direct threat to self or others

Preferred Skills

• AWS Certified Weld Inspector OR 5 years of hardware-related experience with welding.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer

Benefits/Perks

Health-

• Medical with High Deductible and traditional PPO plan options, as well as, vision and a full array of supplemental health benefits
• A doctor’s service to help with referrals and second opinions for you, your family, and your parents

Family-

• 4 weeks of paid parental leave for moms and dads
• Fertility treatment
• Subsidized backup childcare and eldercare
• Adoption assistance – $5,000 per adoption/$15,000 per employee
• Pet insurance

Well-Being-

• No cap to your PTO time (for exempt employees)
• Dress for your day – wear what works for you at work
• Legal plan for you, your family, and your parents
• Discount platform
• 9/80 work schedule available for most U.S. employees

Employer’s Statement

L3Harris Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws.