Quality Engineer 5

Engineering

Quality Engineer 5 SIMPSONVILLE, SC Posted: 9/29/2026

Job Description

Job ID#:

226538

Job Category:

Engineering

Position Type:

Associate - W2

PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking a Quality Engineer 5, in Simpsonville, SC

Job Description:

• Develop partnerships with senior managers, IPTs, customers, and quality functions of the program team to define steps necessary to implement proactive quality strategies

• Engage on both strategic and tactical levels, focusing on quality, cost and schedule performance, early engagement, influencing and providing differentiating quality value to program teams and customers.

• Generation of new CORE (Customer Oriented Result and Excellence), CoPQ (Cost of Poor Quality) projects to reduce costs/increase efficiency

• Monitor / lead root cause corrective action (RCCA)

• Facilitate the completion of internal and customer required First Article Inspection (FAI) Reviews

• Participation and preparation for customer, third party regulatory and internal audits

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and a minimum of five (5) years of prior relevant experience.

• Working experience with AS9100 Quality Management Systems.

• Working experience leading teams in failure analysis, root cause analysis, corrective and preventative action.

• Working experience in providing technical program support for manufacturing and/or design processes.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Six Sigma, Lean, and / or American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications

• Experienced team player who achieves goals and strives for continuous improvement.

• Experience Reviewing Purchase Orders, Customer Drawings, Corrective Action Requests (CAR)

• Experience interfacing directly with customers

• Experience leading customer audits

• Experience presenting, reviewing and/or approving changes through a formal Change Board.

• Experience exercising judgement and apply resolution-making skills with appropriate supervisory intervention.

• Experience in risk mitigation and opportunity management.

• Experience translating system requirements and contractual requirements to ensure full compliance is flowed down through product, assembly, and test documentation.

• Experience applying people skills and working with customers, suppliers, and in a team environment.

• Experience in First Article Inspections per AS9102.

• Experience in one or all of the following is highly desired: Six Sigma, Process Certification, Advanced Product Quality

Planning (APQP), and Product Part Approval Process (PPAP)

• Experienced in 8D, quality tools, 5 Whys of Root Cause Analysis, and SPC analysis

• Ability to lead a cross-functional team and provide forecasting to reach established goals

• Ability to assimilate, analyze, and present data to leaders, customers, and peers

• Experiencing interfacing with internal and external customers as well as all levels of personnel

Education/Experience:

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and a minimum of five (5) years of prior relevant experience.

• Working experience with AS9100 Quality Management Systems.

• Working experience leading teams in failure analysis, root cause analysis, corrective and preventative action.

• Working experience in providing technical program support for manufacturing and/or design processes.

Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.

Job Requirements

Minimum Security Clearance:

No Clearance

Military connected talent encouraged to apply.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act

• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled