Job DescriptionBAE Systems Secure Communications program area is looking for a Program Quality Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be a key program leadership member collaborating across functions and empowered to influence strategy and execution that ensures programs are executed with high quality. The program quality engineer will assure that customer, regulatory, and internal requirements are met at all levels of the value stream and will own the quality success of the program by coordinating quality resources (design, supplier, manufacturing), meeting customer satisfaction, and identifying, communicating, and dispositioning quality risks.
A Program Quality Engineer will typically fulfill the following responsibilities:
- Program Quality Planning & Execution: Develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive program quality plans (including estimates, schedules, resources, and budgets) aligned with customer & internal requirements with inputs from but not limited to design and supplier quality counterparts, coordinate necessary quality expertise, and collaborate with other functions on APQP planning.
- Lifecycle Management: Support lifecycle management, phase gate, and program management reviews to ensure product quality, proactively identify issues, and serve as an active participant in program return to green efforts and transition to production activities.
- Customer Advocacy and Liaison: Serve as the primary customer quality liaison by overseeing product sell off, hosting customer source inspections and audits, approving and submitting PPAP's to the customer, and managing customer quality related issues and concerns.
- Quality Requirements Management: Proactively integrates quality into the program lifecycle by ensuring requirements are managed at all levels (design, process, suppliers, and focus factories) and validated when realized during productization.
- Issue Management & Resolution: Lead nonconformance management by overseeing Material/Process Alert investigations and chairing Material Review Boards, drive robust Root Cause & Corrective Action (RCCA) processes, and minimize program/customer impact.
- Risk & Opportunity Management: Identify and communicate quality risks, ensure robust mitigation strategies are in place, and leverage product issue data for DFMEA/PFMEA updates.
- Supplier/Subcontract Support: Develop supplier quality clausing plans and review and approve subcontract management plans and statements of work. Support the Supplier Quality Assurance team and provide guidance/directives for direct program activities.
- Compliance & Audit Support: Ensure compliance with BAE programmatic processes and organize, support, and/or execute AS9100 audits and CMMI assessments as required by policy.
- Performance Monitoring & Improvement: Ensure programs meet all quality performance requirements by managing and reporting key quality metrics and partner with programs and other functions to drive improvements in overall program and business performance. Participate on the Program Management Meetings and Customer Program Management Reviews.
Required Skills and Education- Bachelor's degree in a technical field of study and 4-6+ years of experience or 8-10+ years of engineering experience in lieu of degree
- Experience in hardware assembly, testing and inspection
- Knowledge of industry standards and regulations (e.g. AS9100/ISO 9001, CMMI, AS9102, AS9145, etc.)
- Experienced with root cause corrective action (RCCA) 8-D Process.
- Strong problem solving and risk management skills leveraged to ensure that solutions meet the needs of the business and warfighter
- Familiarity with lifecycle management (LCM) process and project management
- Customer skills including ability to develop solid, working customer relationships with credibility
- Business acumen, leadership, and cross-functional influence
- Clear and concise verbal and written communication
Preferred Skills and Education- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
- ASQ advanced certifications
- Experienced with quality tools and methodologies (e.g. 8D and Lean Six Sigma)
- Experience with AS9145 APQP support and control plan implementation
- Expertise in Commodities Design / Process (PWB, CCA, Microelectronics, Cables and Optics)
