Quality Engineer

Ultra Maritime

$75K — $95K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in quality assurance or related fields
  • 4+ years of experience in Quality Engineering or comparable role
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification preferred
  • Ability to comply with AS9100 standards
  • U.S. nationality requirements for security clearance eligibility

Responsibilities

  • Promote and cultivate a quality-first culture across the organization
  • Participate in Quality meetings, reporting on progress and addressing challenges
  • Develop and implement quality processes to enhance efficiency
  • Collaborate with teams and external experts for data analysis and root cause determination
  • Ensure compliance with customer quality specifications and AS9100 standards
  • Innovate problem-solving methods during quality assurance activities
  • Act as a quality resource for cross-functional teams regarding issues, resolutions, and continuous advancements
  • Monitor quality in-process during factory assembly and engineering labs
  • Deliver training on quality standards and company protocols

Benefits

  • Climate-controlled, clean work environment
  • Generous PTO of up to 140 hours in the first year
  • 8 paid holidays plus 3 floating holidays
  • 401k plan with company match
  • Tuition reimbursement under educational assistance
  • Wellness program with incentives
  • Company contributions to Health Savings Account
  • Comprehensive insurance benefits starting from the first month
  • Annual performance-based bonuses
  • Various employee discounts and perks
  • $75 monthly student loan repayment benefit
  • Basic Life and AD&D insurance coverage
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Voluntary medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
  • Supplemental life and AD&D insurance options
  • Accident and critical illness insurance plans
  • Hospital indemnity coverage
  • Pet insurance and identity theft protection options
Full Job Description
Nationality Requirements

Due to the nature of the programs we support, certain roles may require candidates to meet U.S. nationality requirements and be eligible to obtain a security clearance.

Position Summary

The Quality Engineer works within the Quality Assurance department to drive process improvements cross-functionally. This includes utilizing various software to identify issues/inefficiencies, taking ownership, and leading the improvement project to completion.
Job Description

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
  • Promote a culture of quality awareness.
  • Attend meetings for Quality, report on progress, and communicate roadblocks to completing tasks.
  • Develop/improve and lead implementation of Quality processes to increase efficiency while maintaining high quality standards.
  • Works with cross-functional team members and outside experts as required to coordinate the analysis of data review and analysis in support of final root cause and corrective action determination.
  • Ensure the products & processes are within customer quality systems specifications and comply with AS9100.
  • Develop new approaches to problem solving identified during quality assurance activities.
  • Serve as a quality assurance resource cross functionally for problem identification, resolution, loss reporting and continuous improvement.
  • Report to programs on quality issues, trends, and losses.
  • Performs in-process quality monitoring of factory assembly lines and engineering assembly labs.
  • Assists with compiling, writing and delivering training on quality standards and company processes.
  • All staff is required to take reasonable care for their own health and safety by adhering to established safety policies and procedures, to not willfully place at risk the health or safety of any individual and to wear personal protective equipment as specified in work instructions.


Education and Experience Requirements:

Typically, a Bachelor Degree (or equivalent) and 4+ years of related experience.
May be required to maintain security clearance.

This position requires either a US Person or a non-US Person who is eligible to obtain any required Export Authorization.

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt preferred.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • Requires at times to work long hours including overtime
  • Will require some travel for personal training and customer/supplier visits
  • Use of normal office equipment including: copier, phone and personal computer using Microsoft Office


Work Environment:

This job operates in a production floor environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Occasionally the work environment may be loud.

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What Ultra Maritime Offers You

At Ultra Maritime, we invest in our employees and their well-being:

  • Climate controlled, well-lit and clean work environment!
  • Work/life balance that includes up to 140 hours PTO for first year
  • 8 Paid Holidays, with 3 floating holidays
  • 401k Plan with Company Match
  • Educational Assistance Program (Tuition Reimbursement)
  • Wellness Program and incentives
  • Company HSA contributions
  • Insurance Benefits that start 1st of the month following hire
  • Eligibility in Company Performance-based bonuses annually
  • Additional Employee Discounts and Perks


Company-Paid Benefits:

  • $75 monthly student loan repayment program
  • Basic Life Insurance
  • Basic Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
  • Short Term Disability
  • Long Term Disability
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)


Voluntary Employee-Paid Benefits:

  • Medical and Prescription insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Supplemental Life Insurance Plans
  • Supplemental AD&D insurance for Employee and Family
  • Accident Plan
  • Critical Illness Plan
  • Hospital Indemnity Plan
  • Pet Insurance
  • Identity Theft


Reasonable accommodation statement: if you need an accommodation for any part of the application process, please email [redacted]

Company: Ultra Maritime

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