Quality Engineer

Company Overview

ARA is a C5ISR company that designs, manufactures, tests, and installs cutting edge antenna technologies to keep our joint forces secure, superior and safe. We create and deliver a vast array of products for both military and civilian applications that combine innovative discoveries from companies we’ve acquired, including SI2 Technologies and AQYR, whose technologies complement and enhance our trusted systems. Our capabilities span from Electronic Warfare and Military Communications to Radar and Satellite Systems. For more than 60 years, ARA has provided our military with unparalleled information, improved situational awareness, immediate threat detection and precision targeting.

From ideation to installation, ARA supplies unique antenna systems in both high-volume and smaller quantities to meet our customers’ needs and ensure success. Our US locations have fully staffed outdoor antenna test ranges, engineers, and on-site manufacturing lines and machine shops.

At ARA, our employees are our most valuable resource and are at the core of our success. We are committed to an environment that values and respects the talents and expertise of our employees and provides continuous opportunities for growth.

Job Summary

This Quality Engineer is responsible for the generation of Quality Assurance plans for assigned projects; resolving bugs, defects, and other issues; and ensuring the project meets customer performance, functional and quality specifications. Duties include creating the quality standards and testing systems to reflect efficiency, reliability, and performance. This position is also responsible for the root cause and corrective action activities for internal production processes and external supplier processes.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Develop inspection methods to analyze product quality.
• Familiarity and use of Quality Management Systems
• Improve product quality by making recommendations for change.
• Work together with relevant departments to improve efficiency of product design during transition to manufacturing and throughout the manufacturing process.
• Perform First Article Inspection (FAI).
• Review and approve First Article Inspection Report (FAIR).
• Participate in Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and perform Preproduction Parts Approval Process (PPAP).
• Analyzes program quality and take corrective actions when necessary.
• Identifies customer requirements in contractual documentation and ensures the project fulfills those requirements.
• Interact with other departments to translate engineering designs, specifications, and other concepts for products and services realization.
• Supports assigned project or operations team by providing analysis and expertise throughout the inspection and implementation process.
• Identifies root causes of problems in the production process; recommends and/or implements corrective measures.
• Cross functional support in the review and selection processes for suppliers.
• Maintain the approved vendor list (AVL).
• Reviewing incoming supplies and products from vendors to check for defects and ensure quality.
• Conducting tests and assessments on products to identify quality issues.
• Maintaining detailed reports on supplier quality, including defect rates and areas that result in flaws.

Position Qualifications

Competency Statements

• Adaptability - Adapts to change, open to new ideas and responsibilities
• Communication – Ability to speak, write, and interact with others.
• Decision Making – Able to reach a decision, takes thoughtful approach when considering options, seeks input from others, makes difficult decisions
• Ethics - Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality
• Initiative – Ability to take on task before being asked.
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Quality - Strives to eliminate errors, accurate work is a priority, seeks opportunities to improve products/services.
• Preventive – Culture, principles, and methods of preventive; build quality into processes. Being proactive rather than reactive.

Experience & Skills

• Experience in a manufacturing environment required.
• Extensive experience in a quality assurance environment required.
• High proficiency in computer technology and systems operations.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• In-depth understanding of industry market trends and conditions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to work efficiently in a team environment.
• Basic mathematical arithmetic skills.

Education:

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Engineering preferred

Antenna Research Associates, Inc. and its subsidiaries encourage diversity in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran

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