Quality Engineer II

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.

Duties and responsibilities:
•    Prioritize and implement multiple concurrent process improvement projects, along or as part of a multifunctional team, to drive customer satisfaction and business productivity.  
•    Analyze production and service limitations, then develop, implement, and evaluate quality assurance process sampling systems, procedures, and statistical techniques to track the progress of improvement efforts.
•    Oversee the evaluation of test equipment, precision measurements, accuracy measurements and performance testing.
•    Work with management team to disposition nonconforming material and devise remediation actions.  
•    Work with New Product development teams to approve new suppliers of materials / services used in product realization; work with Manufacturing Engineers to resolve quality issues related to existing suppliers.
•    Conduct training on quality assurance concepts and tools.
•    Collect, organize, monitor and distribute information for the Company and to customers / suppliers related to product quality and process improvement.
•    Specify, develop and accept advanced technology, quality information and test equipment. 
•    Provide advanced quality engineering of new production introduction involving new processes or advanced automated equipment.
•    Act as a consultant to the quality, manufacturing and engineering teams to improve quality and manufacturing processes, introduce new products and improve product design.
•    Train and provide ongoing leadership of assigned personnel to meet schedules, quality and measurements, and organizational goals.
•    Manage NCR database to drive timely dispositioning of product and implementation of corrective action plans.
•    Escort customers and third party auditors on behalf of Wyman Gordon. 
•    Participate and assist as needed in customer/third party audits and ensure audit findings are addressed and closed.
•    Manage the internal auditing program including scheduling all audits, performing audits, and making sure all audits and audit findings are closed in a timely manner.
•    Perform external supplier audits and work with suppliers to close out findings.
•    Drive improvement in the QMS System
•    Implementation of quality requirements for new customers
•    Drive improvement in Statistical Process Controls
•    Facilitate investigations into root cause and corrective action analysis
•    Point of contact with customers, regulatory, and government agencies on quality related issues, and audits
•    Drive FMEA to improve the quality and reliability of the process

Knowledge and Training:
•    Bachelor’s degree preferred with a minimum of four (4) years of professional work experience as a Quality Engineer.  CQE or equivalent is preferred.  Aerospace and / or Automotive Quality experience is preferred.
•    Quality planning experience.
•    Geometric dimensioning and tolerance, drawing interpretation, and familiarity with regulatory specifications.
•    CMM programming experience preferred.
•    Prior experience in areas of quality assurance such as:  DOE, FMEA, SPC, RCCA, 8D, controls plans, material control, process control, systems performance, product evaluation, MSA, metrology, automated measurement and software is preferred.
•    Six Sigma training and the ability to apply statistical methods to analysis of engineering problems is preferred. 
•    FMEA 
•    Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and teamwork across functional boundaries 
•    Excellent communication skills 
•    Ability to convey technical and conceptual material to individuals at all levels in customer organization as well as within Wyman Gordon
•    Computer programs (ERP, Minitab, Microsoft Office, CAD/CAM)