Quality Engineer

PURPOSE:

The Quality Engineer develops, modifies, applies, and maintains quality control systems and protocols for the organization. Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure world-class quality standards are developed, maintained, and adhered to.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Manage and coordinate Material Review Board (MRB) activities, including:
• Act as a primary liaison between Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality to collect, verify, and assemble required technical and inspection data for:
• Review customer purchase orders, drawings, specifications, and flow-down requirements to identify applicable quality and inspection requirements.
• Support the development, update, and maintenance of inspection control plans, using:
• Ensure special quality requirements are properly reflected in:
• Coordinate inspection and testing requirements with:
• Support engineering change management, ensuring revisions are reviewed, documented, and implemented to maintain conformance to customer and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in internal audits, job audits, and investigation of quality issues; track and support corrective action implementation.
• Assist in identifying and monitoring high-risk process areas, using data from MRBs, FAIs, and shop-floor feedback.
• Support customer interactions related to quality issues, including technical data review and response preparation, as required.
• Perform other quality-related duties as assigned by management.

SPECIAL SKILLS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Analytical skills, critical thinking, and communication skills are critical to this position.
• Thorough understanding of GD&T principles.
• Lifting of heavy castings up to 33 lbs. and working in a heavy manufacturing environment.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports directly to the Product Quality Manager

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Preferred a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science or Manufacturing Technology discipline; consider education and experience.
• 6 years of quality engineering related experience.
• Knowledge of investment casting technology, processes and manufacturing methods are preferable.

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability - not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.