Quality Compliance Engineer
On-siteWaukesha, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary
Serve as the primary quality representative between compliance programs and internal partners, sales, manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain. Develop and maintain program-specific quality, manufacturing, and purchasing plans, procedures, and documentation in accordance with contract requirements. Create, refine, and deploy quality systems, procedures, documentation, and training to drive consistency and compliance. Assist in risk assessments, gap analysis, and process audits to assess internal or external supplier compliance performance. Lead root cause analysis and corrective action development for nonconformances, customer complaints, and quality alerts. Interpret defense contracts and Purchase Orders related to DFARS, FAR, ITAR, and CMMC requirements. Develop internal processes to ensure proper flow-down of requirements to partners and suppliers.
Required Qualifications
- 2+ years of relevant quality assurance experience in aerospace, defense, or a high-compliance manufacturing environment
- Strong working knowledge of aerospace/defense quality requirements and government contracting compliance standards (FAR/DFAR/ITAR/AS9100)
- Strong initiative, with demonstrable experience in helping develop and deploy internal and external quality programs to bridge manufacturing, administrative, and supplier processes for compliance
- Strong communication skills, able to effectively translate and train on compliance requirements in cross-functional and collaborative environment
- Meticulous attention to detail in reviewing contract compliance documentation and assessing internal program statuses
- U.S. Person status designation
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or quality
- Experience in a quality assurance role with exposure to hands-on inspection methods, Quality Control practices and documentation methods
- Some working knowledge of CMMC and impact on quality management systems, internal/external controls
- Previous experience developing and facilitating training that elevates quality and compliance awareness
- Experience with ERP systems
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