
Posted 12 days ago
Quality Engineer — RCCA Program Lead (Supplier Quality)
AI Summary
Leads root-cause corrective action (RCCA) programs for supplier quality, assessing client analyses, prioritizing corrective actions, and leading failure-mechanism investigations using structured methods.
About this role
Key Responsibilities
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Assess client root-cause analyses and containment strategies for adequacy and rigor; disposition each as adequate, needs strengthening, or requires re-analysis.
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Prioritize the corrective-action portfolio by customer impact, Boeing due date, and recurrence/severity risk; maintain a prioritized RCCA register that drives the working cadence.
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Lead failure-mechanism analysis using SQA’s proprietary RCCA methodology and toolset; confirm root and contributing causes, identify controls over high-risk mechanisms, and assess the measurement system.
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Develop sustainable corrective action plans with clear controls to determine effectiveness of the solution.
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Responsible for clear communication to client and SQA leadership including upkeep of dashboard, due-date tracking, risk and blocker escalation, and weekly and monthly reporting.
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Prepare and support customer corrective-action response packages (e.g., 8D via SQIS) and manage customer rejections and resubmittals through approval.
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Capture analyses in the SQA RCCA toolset and export deliverables in the formats the client and customer require (Boeing 8D, STEPQ, Word, Excel, PDF).
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Partner with client Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, Planning, and Document Control to advance actions while respecting client ownership of implementation, disposition, and customer status outcomes.
Required Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent quality-engineering experience.
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Minimum 5 years in quality engineering or supplier quality within aerospace, defense, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
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Demonstrated hands-on root-cause and corrective-action experience using structured methods (8D, 5-Why, fishbone/Ishikawa).
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Working knowledge of AS9100 and experience authoring and closing formal corrective actions to a major OEM customer.
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Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple concurrent corrective actions to schedule.
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Strong technical writing; able to produce audit-ready and customer-ready analyses and responses.
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Able to work onsite at the client facility in Everett, WA, with travel to client site(s) as required.
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