# Program Quality Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

We are seeking a Program Quality Engineer to serve as the quality engineering focal point for assigned programs, executing the Quality Control system to drive customer satisfaction and product conformance.

In this role, you will support quality activities across Manufacturing operations, including First Article Inspection (FAI), supplier part approvals, continuous improvement, and defect reduction for electromechanical products.

As a hands-on individual contributor, you will partner with program management, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain to translate contract and customer quality requirements into executable quality plans.

You will own the technical problem-solving behind nonconformances and corrective actions, and report to the Sr Quality Manager of Defense Sector Mission Assurance.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Serve as the quality engineering point of contact for assigned programs

- Develop and maintain program quality plans, inspection plans, and quality requirement flowdown

- Review contract quality requirements and identify necessary processes, tooling, and documentation

- Execute and disposition First Article Inspections (FAI/AS9102) and supplier part approvals

- Develop and maintain quality metrics to monitor Quality Control system effectiveness

- Lead root-cause analysis and structured problem-solving

- Build and maintain statistical data collection and analysis

- Participate in Material Review Board activities and disposition nonconforming material

- Provide day-to-day technical direction and inspection guidance to Quality Technicians and Inspectors

- Interact with customers to identify quality improvement opportunities

- Initiate and execute quality improvement activities

- Report quality issues, trends, and losses to Quality Management and program leadership

- Support internal and external quality audits

- Collaborate with DCMA and other government and/or customer quality assurance organizations

- Interface with supplier and customer quality representatives

- Review and provide quality inputs to aviation program manuals, forms, and records

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline and four (4) years of prior relevant experience

- Four (4+) years of hands-on quality engineering experience in a manufacturing and/or product-based environment

- Working knowledge of AS9100 / ISO 9001 requirements

- Demonstrated experience with root cause analysis and corrective action methodologies

- Experience reading and interpreting engineering drawings, specifications, and GD&T

- Ability to review and provide quality inputs to aviation program manuals, forms, and records

- Resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to Huntsville – North Alabama, AL area

- Proficient in utilizing Microsoft Office products

- Strong verbal and written communication skills

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) or equivalent certification

- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification

- Experience with Solumina or a comparable MES/quality management system

- Experience building quality dashboards and reporting in Power BI

- AS9100 internal auditor training or experience

- Experience with flight hardware, composites, welding, or coatings quality requirements

- Familiarity with statistical analysis tools such as Minitab

- Prior experience supporting DCMA or government source inspection activities

## Skills

### Required
- AS9100
- ISO 9001
- root cause analysis
- corrective action
- engineering drawings
- GD&T
- Microsoft Office
- verbal and written communication

### Nice to have
- ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Solumina
- Power BI
- statistical analysis tools
- flight hardware
- composites
- welding
- coatings quality requirements

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