Quality Assurance Engineer
Lockheed Martin
In this role you ensure products and processes meet customer, regulatory, and business requirements across the product lifecycle within an AS9100-regulated environment. You’ll partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain to drive quality planning, containment, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement. The position focuses on assuring design and process quality, supporting NPI, and maintaining compliance and documentation. This is a hands-on opportunity to shape quality outcomes in aerospace/manufacturing.
Responsibilities- Generate and maintain Control Plans from engineering drawings, specs, and requirements
- Identify critical quality characteristics and inspection needs from drawings and docs
- Manage non-conformance process (containment, quarantine, investigation, disposition, closure)
- Lead RCCA activities using 8D, 5 Whys, and Fishbone analysis
- Participate in design and drawing reviews to embed quality requirements
- Support New Product Introduction by defining quality controls
- Collaborate with Engineering and Manufacturing to resolve quality issues
- Analyze quality data to identify trends and drive corrective actions
- Support audits (internal, customer, third-party) and maintain AS9100 compliance
- Maintain quality documentation and records per requirements
- Strong QA principles and non-conformance management
- Experience in AS9100-regulated manufacturing
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings and specs
- Experience with Control Plans, RCCA, and problem-solving methodologies
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams
- Analytical mindset
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Effective communication
- AS9100 quality management system
- Control Plans
- RCCA (Root Cause Corrective Action)
Reference: WJ-747_30134691