Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer
Job Category: Engineering and Technical Support
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%
Type of Travel: Continental US
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The Opportunity:
CACI is seeking a highly motivated, detail-oriented Quality Assurance Engineer to join its Product Assurance team in Albuquerque, NM. The successful candidate will be an independent thinker capable of working with minimal oversight while maintaining and improving established quality processes and procedures. The Quality Assurance Engineer will ensure products, processes, and deliverables conform to customer specifications, contractual requirements, applicable Department of Defense (DoD) standards, and established quality management system requirements.
This position will play a key role in maintaining the company’s AS9100 certification by ensuring the established Quality Management System (QMS) remains compliant, effective, and continuously improving. The Quality Assurance Engineer will maintain and enhance existing quality processes, procedures, and documentation; monitor compliance with AS9100 requirements; and coordinate audit readiness activities. This individual will serve as the primary company representative during annual third-party AS9100 audits, guiding the auditor through established processes and procedures, coordinating required documentation and personnel, addressing audit findings, and ensuring corrective actions are implemented and verified.
Responsibilities:
Facilitate the maintenance, development, and continuous improvement of quality control systems for designated products, processes, and programs.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including design engineering, purchasing, production, manufacturing engineering, and inspection personnel, to ensure customer quality requirements are met.
Review design, manufacturing, testing, and procurement documentation, including Statements of Work, technical drawings, Technical Orders, and contractual and purchasing requirements, to verify compliance with applicable quality standards.
Coordinate and conduct quality audits and inspections of facilities, documentation, personnel, equipment, and processes to identify deficiencies and ensure compliance with quality and safety requirements.
Maintain the company’s AS9100 certification by monitoring compliance with applicable standard requirements and ensuring the established QMS remains effective.
Develop, author, maintain, review, and continuously improve existing quality processes, procedures, work instructions, forms, and records to ensure compliance with AS9100, customer requirements, and applicable contractual obligations.
Lead preparations for and serve as the primary company representative during annual third-party AS9100 audits, guiding the auditor through established processes, procedures, records, and operational activities.
Coordinate audit schedules, prepare supporting documentation, facilitate employee and process-owner participation, and ensure timely responses to auditor requests.
Identify root causes of quality issues and coordinate corrective and preventive actions to eliminate nonconformances and prevent recurrence.
Manage audit findings, observations, and corrective actions by coordinating root cause analysis, tracking action items, verifying implementation and effectiveness, and maintaining appropriate records.
Provide technical guidance and support related to quality testing, inspection, analysis, and process improvement.
Provide independent quality assurance oversight and recommend process controls and improvements while maintaining operational flexibility and minimizing impacts to production and delivery schedules.
Utilize Core Business Solutions quality management software, or a similar Quality Management system.
Qualifications:
Required
An active DoD Secret clearance.
Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as engineering,…