Program Quality Engineer

Job Description
As part of our C4ISR Space Systems Quality Organization, you'll join a diverse group of driven professionals who design the products and systems that support the new frontier of military capabilities, protecting our warfighters and ensuring the US maintains the strategic advantages our adversaries. With us, you'll be able to make an impact while you hone your skills and grow in your career.
BAE Systems Secure Communications program area is looking for a Program Quality Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be a key program leadership member collaborating across functions and empowered to influence strategy and execution that ensures programs are executed with high quality. The program quality engineer will assure that customer, regulatory, and internal requirements are met at all levels of the value stream and will own the quality success of the program by coordinating quality resources (design, supplier, manufacturing), meeting customer satisfaction, and identifying, communicating, and dispositioning quality risks.
A Program Quality Engineer will typically fulfill the following responsibilities:

• Program Quality Planning & Execution: Develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive program quality plans (including estimates, schedules, resources, and budgets) aligned with customer & internal requirements with inputs from but not limited to design and supplier quality counterparts, coordinate necessary quality expertise, and collaborate with other functions on APQP planning.
• Lifecycle Management: Support lifecycle management, phase gate, and program management reviews to ensure product quality, proactively identify issues, and serve as an active participant in program return to green efforts and transition to production activities.
• Customer Advocacy and Liaison: Serve as the primary customer quality liaison by overseeing product sell off, hosting customer source inspections and audits, approving and submitting PPAP's to the customer, and managing customer quality related issues and concerns.
• Quality Requirements Management: Proactively integrates quality into the program lifecycle by ensuring requirements are managed at all levels (design, process, suppliers, and focus factories) and validated when realized during productization.
• Issue Management & Resolution: Lead nonconformance management by overseeing Material/Process Alert investigations and chairing Material Review Boards, drive robust Root Cause & Corrective Action (RCCA) processes, and minimize program/customer impact.
• Risk & Opportunity Management: Identify and communicate quality risks, ensure robust mitigation strategies are in place, and leverage product issue data for DFMEA/PFMEA updates.
• Supplier/Subcontract Support: Develop supplier quality clausing plans and review and approve subcontract management plans and statements of work. Support the Supplier Quality Assurance team and provide guidance/directives for direct program activities.
• Compliance & Audit Support: Ensure compliance with BAE programmatic processes and organize, support, and/or execute AS9100 audits and CMMI assessments as required by policy.
• Performance Monitoring & Improvement: Ensure programs meet all quality performance requirements by managing and reporting key quality metrics and partner with programs and other functions to drive improvements in overall program and business performance. Participate on the Program Management Meetings and Customer Program Management Reviews.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field of study and 4-6+ years of experience or 8-10+ years of engineering experience in lieu of degree
• Experience in hardware assembly, testing and inspection
• Knowledge of industry standards and regulations (e.g. AS9100/ISO 9001, CMMI, AS9102, AS9145, etc.)
• Experienced with root cause corrective action (RCCA) 8-D Process.
• Strong problem solving and risk management skills leveraged to ensure that solutions meet the needs of the business and warfighter
• Familiarity with lifecycle management (LCM) process and project management
• Customer skills including ability to develop solid, working customer relationships with credibility
• Business acumen, leadership, and cross-functional influence
• Clear and concise verbal and written communication

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
• ASQ advanced certifications
• Experienced with quality tools and methodologies (e.g. 8D and Lean Six Sigma)
• Experience with AS9145 APQP support and control plan implementation
• Expertise in Commodities Design / Process (PWB, CCA, Microelectronics, Cables and Optics)

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $118095 - $200762
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
About BAE Systems Electronic Systems
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts - defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team-making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems' game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere - from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact - for our customers and the communities we serve.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.