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Quality Engineer

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San Diego, CAContract / Full-time$35/hrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$35/hr
Location
San Diego, CA
Schedule
Contract / Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Quality Engineer defines and implements quality assurance solutions for complex issues, analyzes defective products and trends, and recommends corrective actions. The role supports aerospace quality-system compliance, component qualification, quality-escape disposition, customer and supplier coordination, audits, and corrective-action processes. It is an ongoing contract scheduled for 40 hours per week, with compensation of $35 per hour.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Quality EngineeringAerospace QualityInspection PlanningMeasurement MethodsPPAPFMEAControl PlansCapability AssessmentStatistical Process ControlCompliance Matrix DevelopmentANSI/ASME Y14.5MModel-Based DefinitionCMM Report AnalysisRoot Cause AnalysisInternal Auditing

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Engineering or Equivalent Experience5+ Years Quality Engineering Experience or Equivalent

Full job description

Overview

Industry: Aerospace/Defense

Position: Quality Engineer

Duration: On-going contract

Frequency: 40hrs per week

Compensation: $35/hr

Job Description:

  • Quality Engineer defines and implements quality assurance solutions to a wide range of complex issues. Ensures a high reliability and proper performance per product requirements. Analyzes reports and defective products to determine trends and recommends corrective actions.

  • Quality System Compliance – includes reviewing customer quality documentation requirements and ensuring supplier and compliance, working with Customers to obtain approval of deviation

  • Sub Detail Component Qualification – Review supplier provided FAI documentation, validate details of FAI docs torequirements, obtain missing documentation and/or work with third parties to perform material validation in lieu of missing documentation.

  • Quality Escape vetting and notification – when a quality escape is identified work with Engineering and Customer(s) to understand scope of escape and disposition options.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Engineering

  • 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering or equivalent experience

  • Aerospace experience

  • Performs assigned responsibilities in planning and implementing quality assurance programs on customer orders. This includes but is not limited to: Inspection plans, measurement methods and recording forms; Quality assurance systems, methods and procedures; PPAP Key Quality Element development, i.e Process Flows, FMEAs, Control Plans, Capability Assessments, Production Monitoring; Statistical methods to control and evaluate process capabilities, where applicable; and Development of quality assurance data packages for customer review

  • Coordinates quality activities with customers, suppliers, and third-party oversight bodies as necessary.

  • Reviews contractual requirements in specifications and drawings with specific attention to quality requirements and leads the development of compliance matrices for customer acceptance

  • Provides leadership in acquiring and implementing improved QA techniques and processes and makes key processes visible.

  • Serves as the key owner and monitor for processes within the scope of area of specific responsibility.

  • Improves and creates standardized quality processes. Ensures 100% quality and regulatory compliance in accordance with documented procedures for all aspects of functional responsibility.

  • Provides subject matter expertise while interacting with internal and external customers as well as suppliers by meeting regularly, responding to requests, and resolving issues as they may arise.

  • Assists other departments as necessary in establishing standards relative to ensuring product quality.

  • Reviews and approves drawings in accordance with ANSI/ASME Y14.5M 2009 standard, routings, specifications, procedures and similar documents related to assigned projects.

  • Prepares and provides detailed quality assurance inputs to such documents.

  • Translates customer, regulatory, and code requirements into Manufacturing Work Instructions, Quality Engineering Instructions and Control Plans.

  • Reviews, revises or writes inspection procedures.

  • Performs internal process surveillances and internal audits.

  • Conducts RCCA analysis and closure on customer returns associated with assigned programs

  • Reviews, evaluates, and answers customer correspondence.

  • Supports in-process Hold/Witness Points at facility.

  • Participates in the preparation and maintenance of quality program manuals and related department and divisional procedures. Generates, reviews and processes Quality Non-Conformities, conducts containment, obtains disposition, evaluates root causes, and implements corrective action as required; Prepares program quality inspection plans in conjunction with manufacturing routers; and Identifies potential project quality issues

  • Must be familiar with Model Based Definition & a high understanding in CMM report data.

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“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”

How this job compares

Set against the 2,976 open Quality Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$35/hr
  • US median$40–48/hr161 hourly ranges

This rate, $35/hr, is 20% below the US median midpoint ($44/hr) — in the middle half of Quality Engineer hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 421 open Quality Engineer jobs in California and 2,976 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Quality Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,432 postings).
Education
1,729 of the 2,976 open Quality Engineer jobs (58%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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