Quality Engineer 3

About the Role

This opportunity resides with Uncrewed Systems (UxS), a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. Uncrewed Systems comprises unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and autonomy software. HII creates advanced unmanned solutions for defense, marine research and commercial applications. Serving customers in more than 30 countries, HII provides design, autonomy, manufacturing, testing, operations and sustainment of unmanned systems, including unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and unmanned surface vessels (USVs).

This position will be located in Pocasset, Mass.

Key Responsibilities

• CAPA Chairperson: Champion problem-solving and root cause analysis activities to eliminate recurrence of non-conformances associated with assigned product line.
• Lead Quality Engineer for new vehicle product line.
• Collaborate with design teams to ensure quality assurance and control requirements are accounted for as early in the program lifecycle as possible.
• Identify and record any problems relating to the product process and quality system, initiate, recommend, or provide solutions.
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineering team to ensure production routings have proper controls for implementation of quality plan and appropriate inspection steps.
• Assist Supplier Quality Engineer in conducting supplier and sub-contractor audits to ensure compliant performance, drive process standardization, waste elimination, and continuous improvement.
• Support Supplier Quality Engineer in traveling to supplier locations to ensure quality requirement clarity, conduct capability or quality risk assessments, and/or resolve quality problems as needed.
• Assist Supplier Quality Engineer in evaluating supplier technical issues in a timely manner to ensure continuity of supply that meets HII technical documentation or document HII engineering allowable deviations.
• Collaborate with other functions and product teams to ensure a robust product quality program.
• Monitor, communicate, and improve key product quality KPIs.
• Establish specific short/long term product quality goals.
• Strategically lead product quality performance improvement projects to increase product capability of consistently meeting requirements. Projects may include process analysis, value stream mapping, process capability and throughput analysis, 6-Sigma, 5S, and Kaizen events.
• Aid in the new, probationary, and rejected product processes and design updates.
• Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
• Collaborate with engineering laboratory and production functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devise and implement methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Design and analyze inspection and testing processes, mechanisms, and equipment; conduct quality assurance tests; and perform statistical analysis to assess control and manage risks of product quality and determine responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Audit quality systems for development acceptance criteria (parameters based on product result).
• May undertake root cause analysis of incidents requiring corrective action.
• Ensure that corrective measures and deviations meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• May specialize in areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control, and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
• May be certified in lean and six-sigma quality methodologies and utilize quality tools to help drive continuous improvement.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• US Citizen required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a government clearance.
• Willingness to travel up to 30%.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work well with diverse groups of people.
• Ability to function independently of direct supervision.
• Shipyard construction or quality oversight of boat fabrication experience.
• Willingness to travel to sub-contractor sites, supplier locations, and alternate HII facilities.

Qualifications

• 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in a related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in a related field; 0 years experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in a related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
• Preference for experience or certification in weld inspections.
• Preference for experience in US Coast Guard (USCG) and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) governed environments associated with naval/commercial ships.
• Preference for experience in ISO 9000 or AS9100 manufacturing environment.

Bonus Points

• Understanding of project management and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) requirements.
• Knowledge of various quality system methodologies: 8D, Lean, 5 Why’s, Pareto Analysis, Six Sigma, 8-D, DFMEA, PFEMA, PPAP.

Physical Requirements

• May require working in an office, industrial, shipboard, or laboratory environment.
• Capable of climbing ladders and tolerating confined spaces and extreme temperature variances.