Aerospace Engineer, Senior

Manufacturing/Structural/Civil Engineering Quality Assurance Engineering - USAF or FMS.

Essential Job Functions:

The applicant shall develop and assess defect prevention strategies and processes for development, production, and deployment of hardware and support facilities.

The applicant shall perform QA analyses to ensure hardware systems and support facilities being acquired by AFLCMC can be produced by controlled manufacturing processes at manageable risk to cost, schedule, or user satisfaction.

The applicant shall conduct special studies and analyze broad QA issues common to all AFLCMC acquisition programs, including

Discrete investigations of particular issues using such methods and tools as process variability reduction.

Statistical process/quality control; Defect prevention; Metrology; Nondestructive evaluation, and; QA, or automated inspection.

The applicant shall review and assess the weapon system applicant QA planning and progress.

The applicant shall evaluate the quality system of the weapon system prime contractor/subcontractor or depot, to the degree it impacts the system being acquired and assess the quality planning, discipline, and effectiveness, including weapon system prime contractor/subcontractor use of advanced quality tools, techniques and systems.

The applicant shall analyze weapon system prime weapon system contractor/subcontractor strategies, plans, and activities to identify opportunities for improvement.

The applicant shall assist in identification and analysis of major cost/risk trade-offs and life-cycle cost considerations.

The applicant shall assist in and support quality audits to include hardware audits. The applicant shall assist in hardware quality evaluations by disassembly, inspection and test of a representative unit of production to the assembly level.

The applicant shall provide support to prepare a description of broad quality strategies for defect prevention covering product and process design, production, and deployment.

The applicant shall determine appropriate program QA requirements and prepare descriptions of tasks for inclusion in the contract PWS.

The applicant shall provide QA inputs to initial test planning for hardware.

The applicant shall provide oversight, administer, evaluate, and make recommendations to the International Standards Organization and AS9100 based conversion installation QA plan with practices and procedures designed to ensure that products and equipment conform to USAF or country-specific TCTO.

Required Skills:

Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.

A Bachelors Degree plus 12 years of experience or a Masters Degree plus 10 year of experience is required.

Current Secret clearance.