Associate Quality Engineer (Contract)

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for an Associate Quality Engineer (Contract) to join our Engineering team based in Grand Prairie, TX.

Meet The Team:

From building to servicing the next generation of aerospace, our team focuses on quality, productivity and efficiency. We ensure the highest quality of care and safety is built into each aircraft we assemble and maintain. Our team members make it happen.

Your Working Environment:

A suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.

Your Challenges:

Quality Management System Support:  70%

• Uphold the standard of Airbus Core Values by welcoming challenges with integrity, commitment, confidence, teamwork, customer focus, respect and reliability
• Demonstrate creativity, propose and implement innovations using lean methodologies, data analytic and mining techniques to ensure that top company objectives (TCOs) are met
• Review, develop, and analyze dashboards and visual management tools to identify deficiencies in the quality system
• Compile and analyse statistical data for non-conformities, Key Performance Indicators and other quality department metrics to identify trends, problem areas and provide feedback to implement appropriate corrective actions to prevent recurrence and improve the quality management system
• Monitor digital platform for collection and archiving reports for FOD, housekeeping, tool inventories, lost tool and lost item reports
• Evaluate Key Performance Indicators to identify problem areas and implement corrective action to ensure company performance objectives are met.
• Support Inspection personnel on SAP / Nonconformity Management (NCM) data analysis and quality implementation processes and issues that arise due to discrepancies
• Interact with various collaborators to establish feedback monitoring, identify trends and highlight opportunities to improve the quality management system
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly performance reporting based on quality interactions
• Create, Review and update as directed company manuals, policies, procedures and forms to improve and streamline company processes
• Implement and monitor inspection plans and test processes to ensure that quality assurance standards are achieved
• Participate in periodical meetings with quality department, supporting departments and design office personnel

Continuous Improvement/Compliance:  30%

• Apply processes and metrics such as, but not limited to SQCDP, key performance indicators, practical problem solving (PPS), plan do check act (PDCA), root cause and corrective action and other quality department metrics to support continuous improvement of company policies, procedures, and processes ensuring that company objectives are on target
• Evaluate the quality management system to share insights and trends that will enhance the system and customer experience
• Suggest and implement changes in working conditions, and use of equipment to increase the efficiency, safety and quality of department and work crew
• Act as Quality interface to resolve system, product, and design defects received at AHI
• Prepare audit checklist and support internal audits of processes and procedures to ensure compliance with company standards, regulatory authorities and maintain external audit readiness
• Ensure the implementation of customer and Type Design Holder requirements in the Quality Management System
• Maintain working knowledge of quality standards (FAA, AS9100)

Additional Responsibilities:

Other duties as assigned:       

• Other duties as assigned at management discretion

Your Boarding Pass:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace, Industrial or Quality Engineering

Experience:

Required

• 2 years technical experience in related engineering field or quality analyst experience. Education in excess of the requirement can be substituted as experience.

Preferred

• none

Licensure/Certifications:

Required

• None

Preferred

• Six Sigma Certification
• AS9100 Auditor
• ASQ Quality Engineer Certificate
• Valid FAA A&P

Travel Required:

• 10% Domestic and International

Citizenship:

•   US Person under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder or person covered under our existing ITAR license)

Clearance:

• None

Qualified Skills: 

Knowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities:

Required

• Data Collection, Analysis and Report Creation
• Interpersonal and organizational skills.
• High degree of professionalism, judgment and integrity
• Ability to think strategically and independently
• Ability to perform under pressure and in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Preferred

• Technical knowledge of Airbus Products/Programs and Individual and/or Group Facilitation
• Knowledge of AS9100 Quality Requirements and Systems
• Knowledge of FAA/EASA Requirements
• APQP training or knowledge

Communication Skills:

Required:

• Ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written form in English
• High level of interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to maintain effective relationships/ communication with internal and external customers and suppliers

Preferred:

• French/German/Spanish language

Technical Systems Proficiency:

Required:

• SAP knowledge
• MS SharePoint
• Microsoft Office Suite: MSWord, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
• MS Outlook
• Smartsheet
• Tableau

Preferred:

• None

Physical Requirements:  

• Onsite or remote:  90% Onsite
• Vision: able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings.   Daily
• Hearing: able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on the production floor including safety warnings or alarms.   Daily
• Speaking:  able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications.   Daily
• Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts.   Daily
• Carrying: able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 10lbs/5kgs.  Daily
• Lifting:  able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 10lbs/5kgs.  Infrequently
• Pushing / Pulling:  able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools.  As required.
• Sitting:  able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer.  Daily
• Squatting / Kneeling:  able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving.  Occasionally
• Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor. Daily
• Travel:  able to travel independently and at short notice.  Several times a year.
• Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents):  able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces.   Daily
• Personal Protective Equipment required:  Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as required by site and/or customer site
• Administrative position only PPE required: Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visits, appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required when visiting the shop floor.

A full job description will be provided to candidates whom progress to interview stage or any candidate upon request.

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This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Helicopters, Inc.

Employment Type:

Agency / Temporary

Experience Level:

Entry Level

Remote Type:

Flexible

Job Family:

Quality Assurance <JF-QU-QA>

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