
Associate Production Specialist
Huntsville, ALFull-time$71–97K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Boeing Defense, Space & Security seeks an Associate Quality Production Specialist in Huntsville, Alabama, to support non-conformance reviews, work-instruction approvals, quality inspectors, and customer and stakeholder interactions. The role supports product and process quality analysis, corrective actions, audits, and airplane-specific airborne software packages. It is 100% onsite, requires availability for any assigned shift, and requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Secret clearance.
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Associate Production Specialist
Company: The Boeing Company
Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for an Associate Quality Production Specialist to join our team located in Huntsville, AL!
This position’s primary duties will be primarily supporting BDS programs’ Non-Conformance Reviews (NCR) and assist with approving work instructions, supporting Quality inspectors and interfacing with customers and stakeholders.
This is an on-site position and the candidate must be able to work any shift assigned. Initial training and future support may occur on variable shift. This is at the hiring team’s discretion and may change in the future based on business needs.
Position Responsibilities:
- Assists with review and validation of product non-conformances and disposition type, quality procedures and engineering requirements.
- Supports analysis to identify and evaluate the quality of products, operations and processes.
- Participates in the investigation to determine root cause of nonconformance of plans.
- Ability to apply basic knowledge of aerospace design, systems and integration to perform failure and forensic analysis of aerospace components and systems.
- Gathers data and provides recommendations/solutions to nonconformance of plans, products or processes.
- Assists with the development, modification and documentation of actions to assure problem resolution or to implement corrective/preventive action.
- Assists in obtaining corrective action on nonconforming plans and hardware/processes and submits for review.
- Supports concurrence and obtains commitments to support program resolution.
- Participates and observes the validation associated with corrective action to assure nonconformance has been eliminated.
- Verifies internal replication systems adhere to Company and regulatory standards and procedures.
- Creates airplane specific airborne software packages.
- Conducts audits to ensure media is stored and handled per engineering defined requirements.
- Assists in the creation of reports and coordinates with the responsible parties for internal distribution.
- Works under general supervision.
This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at the listed location.
This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
- Experience with AS9100 and/or a similar Quality Management System standard
- More than 1 year of experience in a manufacturing or manufacturing support environment
- More than 1 year of experience working with Non-Conformance (NCR) processes
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
- More than 1 year of experience working in the aerospace industry
- More than 1 year of experience working Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action
- Experience performing line stock checks
- Active U.S. Security Clearance
- Experience communicating to employees, customers, peers and multiple levels of leadership
- Experience working with and building cross functional teams and partnerships with multiple stakeholders within the company, including engineering
Conflict Of Interest: Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest assessment process
Drug Free Workplace: Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.
Travel: This position may require up to 5% travel.
Shift: This role may be on first, second or third shift; however, there may be additional shift requirements to support program objectives. The candidate must be able to work any shift assigned
Pay & Benefits: At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Summary pay range for associate level (Level 2): USD $71,400 – $96,600
Language Requirements: Not Applicable
Education: Not Applicable
Relocation: Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.
Export Control Requirement: This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Safety Sensitive: This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.
Security Clearance: This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.
Visa Sponsorship: Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Contingent Upon Award Program This position is not contingent upon program award
Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America)
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How this job compares
Set against the 5,063 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$71–97K/yr
- Alabama median$79–132K/yr27 salary ranges
- US median$87–141K/yr2,297 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $84K, is 22% below the Alabama median midpoint ($107K) — in the lowest quarter of Quality Assurance salary ranges in Alabama.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 64 open Quality Assurance jobs in Alabama and 5,063 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,880 postings).
- Education
- 1,733 of the 5,063 open Quality Assurance jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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