Quality Engineer

Job Title: Quality EngineerJob Description

The Quality Engineer supports daily quality operations in an aerospace and advanced manufacturing environment, ensuring product conformance, accurate documentation, and compliance with internal procedures and customer-specific requirements. This role collaborates closely with Inspection, Operations, Engineering, Suppliers, and Customers to resolve quality issues, manage nonconforming material, oversee FAIR submissions, and support supplier and source inspection activities.

Responsibilities

• Address quality issues raised by inspectors, operators, engineering teams, customers, and suppliers by determining or coordinating appropriate disposition and resolution.

• Review, initiate, and disposition suspect or discrepant material, including updating records, nonconformance documentation, time tickets, orders, and scrap material disposition activity.

• Manage customer corrective action requests, concession requests, and supplier portal activity across multiple customer-specific systems.

• Review and approve internal corrective action requests, ensuring alignment with internal procedures and quality system requirements.

• Verify customer shipping packages for accuracy of quantities, revision levels, part numbers, required FAIR reports, certifications, and applicable SPC data uploads.

• Support job start-up activities by reviewing customer purchase order quality requirements, ballooning prints, reviewing specifications, confirming revision levels, requesting required documents, preparing FAIR/DIP files, and uploading reference documentation.

• Assist with NRC incorporation activities by reviewing applicable requirements, evaluating specification changes, preparing documentation, and communicating updates to responsible teams.

• Prepare documentation for source inspection, including prints, purchase orders, process certifications, detail certifications, raw material certifications, parts lists, inspection documentation, and approved FAIR copies.

• Support DQR/DPRV shipment requirements by creating iLots, responding to data requests, uploading required certifications, and generating customer-required certificates of conformance.

• Review customer-returned items by verifying reported discrepancies, reviewing in-house material conditions, gathering inspection and test data, and supporting RMA activity.

• Review purchase orders for applicable quality clauses and customer quality flow-down requirements.

• Prepare and submit FAIR documentation using applicable forms, customer portals, and NET INSPECT for various aerospace and distribution customers.

• Support DSQR shipment and FAIR requirements, including verification of delegated supplier requirements, customer documents, SPC charts, and NET INSPECT activity.

• Pursue RMAs for supplier-responsible defective materials or services by communicating details, photos, and supporting documentation to supplier representatives.

• Review weekly production and shipping lists to identify upcoming FAIRs, concession or waiver status, supplier-related issues, and documentation availability.

• Participate in engineering meetings to address or report quality-related issues and complete follow-up actions as directed.

• Initiate, monitor, review, and provide input on supplier SCAR responses as directed.

• Assist with scrap material removal by marking parts, updating logs, updating DMR tag status, moving materials to proper scrap locations, initiating RMA requests, and updating affected records.

• Support SPC and MeasureLink activity by assisting operators with SPC functions and setting up SPC runs for manufacturing and quality needs.

• Conduct internal AS9100 audits in accordance with the annual audit schedule and leadership direction, using current audit formats and quality system documentation.

Essential Skills

• Experience in quality engineering, quality assurance, or supplier quality within a manufacturing environment.

• Strong understanding of nonconforming material processes, material disposition, corrective actions, and quality documentation.

• Experience reviewing purchase orders, quality clauses, specifications, drawings, certifications, and customer requirements.

• Familiarity with FAIR preparation and submission, including AS9102-style documentation and customer portal submissions.

• Experience with customer portals and quality systems such as NET INSPECT, eCATS, supplier portals, or similar systems.

• Ability to support audits, corrective actions, supplier quality requests, and customer-driven quality documentation.

• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain documentation accuracy.

• Effective communication skills to work with internal teams, suppliers, and customers on quality issues and required actions.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in aerospace manufacturing.

• Familiarity with AS9100 quality management systems.

• Experience with DQR, DPRV, DSQR, FAIR, SCAR, RMA, certificates of conformance (C of C), SPC, and source inspection processes.

• Experience working with major aerospace and defense customers and their quality systems.

• Experience with DISCUS, MeasureLink, PRO DOC, E2, or similar manufacturing and quality software systems.

Work Environment

This is an on-site role in an aerospace and advanced manufacturing facility, working standard first-shift hours with occasional additional time as needed to meet production and customer requirements. The environment is highly collaborative, with close interaction among quality, inspection, operations, engineering, and supply chain teams. Work involves regular use of quality systems, customer portals, SPC tools, and documentation platforms, with a strong focus on compliance, precision, and continuous improvement.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Clearwater, FL.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $36.00 - $36.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Clearwater, FL.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 24, 2026.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Clearwater,FL.

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