Aerospace Engineer, Junior

F-15 Manufacturing/Structural/Civil Engineering Quality Assurance Engineering - USAF or FMS.

Essential Job Functions:

The applicant shall:

Develop and assess defect prevention strategies and processes for development, production, and deployment of hardware and support facilities.

Perform QA analyses to ensure hardware systems and support facilities being acquired by AFLCMC can be produced by controlled manufacturing processes at manageable risk to cost, schedule, or user satisfaction.

Conduct special studies and analyze broad QA issues common to all AFLCMC acquisition programs, including:

• Discrete investigations of issues using such methods and tools as process variability reduction.

• Statistical process/quality control.

• Defect prevention.

• Metrology.

• Nondestructive evaluation, and QA, or automated inspection.

The applicant shall review and assess the weapon system applicant QA planning and progress.

Evaluate the quality system of the weapon system prime contractor/subcontractor or depot, to the degree it impacts the system being acquired and assess the quality planning, discipline, and effectiveness, including weapon system prime contractor/subcontractor use of advanced quality tools, techniques and systems.

Analyze weapon system prime weapon system contractor/subcontractor strategies, plans, and activities to identify opportunities for improvement.

Assist in identification and analysis of major cost/risk trade-offs and life-cycle cost considerations.

The applicant shall assist in and support quality audits to include hardware audits. The applicant shall assist in hardware quality evaluations by disassembly, inspection and test of a representative unit of production to the assembly level.

Provide support to prepare a description of broad quality strategies for defect prevention covering product and process design, production, and deployment.

Determine appropriate program QA requirements and prepare descriptions of tasks for inclusion in the contract PWS.

Provide QA inputs to initial test planning for hardware.

Provide oversight, administer, evaluate, and make recommendations to the International Standards Organization and AS9100 based conversion installation QA plan with practices and procedures designed to ensure that products and equipment conform to USAF or country-specific TCTO.

Required Skills:

Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.

Bachelor of Arts (BA)/Bachelor of Science (BS) plus 4 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed.

Active Secret clearance.

Has the knowledge and ability to perform tasks related to the technical/professional discipline they are performing. The work can be done independently or monitored by senior employees to ensure compliance with proper procedures (Program Office Support interface).