Quality Assurance Engineer

About the Role

Raytheon is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer for an onsite role at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), NM.

Key Responsibilities

• Assure product quality and effectiveness throughout all life-cycle phases.
• Collaborate closely with quality, operations, supply chain, and engineering personnel.
• Ensure programs and core processes meet customer/end user objectives.
• Close quality issues through application of quality sciences and teamwork.
• Inspect test mechanisms and conducts quality assurance activities.
• Monitor and/or audits program operations or core processes.
• Grow others knowledge of quality standards, methods, and procedures.
• Proactively interact with team, management, and the customer.
• Ensure completion of required documentation, identification of nonconformance and noncompliance, resolution and closure of open issues, and ensure quality and configuration of program assets.
• Flex work across quality disciplines and provides surge capability to programs during key events.
• Assess work products to identify and eliminate in-/out- phase defects.
• Perform data analysis to drive root cause and correction action.
• Participate in test preparation and execution to ensure requirements verification.
• Review risk and opportunity data to lead projects to eliminate or reduce risks and/or realize opportunities.
• Investigate failures, participate in failure review boards, support failure investigation teams and drive root cause analysis.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardization, and agile work environments.
• Ensure compliance with ISO9001 and AS9100 requirements.
• Work long hours and/or weekends, when required, to meet program and mission’s objectives.
• Work in a field environment.
• Travel to and work in remote sites (domestic and international) to support program requirements.
• Works in hazardous environments exposed to energized equipment, radar radiation hazards, and unexploded ordnance.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• An active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.
• Security Clearance Type: DoD Clearance: Secret
• Active and existing security clearance required on day 1.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree and less than two (2) years’ Quality Engineering experience.
• Working experience with industry standards such as ISO 9001, AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
• Work experience in aerospace or defense quality assurance.
• Work experience with missiles or guided-weapon production.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer

• American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certification.
• Experience with Root Cause and Corrective Action processes and resources.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense development and or test programs as a quality engineer.
• Previous experience as a quality engineer in a field test environment.
• Experience with Radar Systems, Effectors (missiles, rockets, etc.), and systems-of-systems testing.
• Domain knowledge in field-testing.
• Ability to review, analyze, and ensure compliance of Technical Data Package elements to standards and guidelines.
• Ability to influence without authority, experience with cross-functional teams.
• Effective networking and presentation skills.
• Working experience with missile assembly and inspection.
• Working experience with Patriot Systems and ammunition trained.