Senior Associate, Quality Engineer Level 2

Senior Associate, Quality Engineer (Level 2) - Contract

Overview We are seeking a Senior Associate, Quality Engineer (Level 2) to support moderately complex projects within a dynamic aerospace manufacturing environment. This contract role operates under moderate supervision while also requiring independent judgment and problem-solving. The ideal candidate will contribute directly to maintaining product quality, ensuring compliance with engineering and customer specifications, and driving operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities In this role, you will act as a technical liaison across internal teams and external customers or suppliers, helping ensure that manufactured hardware meets all required specifications and quality standards. Your responsibilities include:

• Applying engineering expertise to communicate effectively between cross-functional teams and customer counterparts to validate hardware compliance.
• Identifying, managing, and communicating deviations and nonconformances at multiple organizational levels.
• Understanding and communicating core aerospace manufacturing processes such as machining, welding, and non-destructive testing, and how they apply to hardware production.
• Applying modern quality engineering principles, including Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools, to routine manufacturing and aerospace operations.
• Interpreting engineering drawings, technical specifications, customer quality requirements, and internal quality standards to ensure full compliance.
• Participating in the review, analysis, and disposition of nonconforming materials and products.
• Interfacing with the Material Review Board (MRB) to provide technical justifications when nonconformance to agreed specifications is identified.
• Supporting continuous improvement efforts that help achieve operational targets impacting departmental performance.

Work Environment & Collaboration This position involves frequent communication with internal teams and external partners, including customers and vendors. You will collaborate closely with manufacturing, engineering, and quality teams, contributing to a multi-functional environment focused on quality assurance, compliance, and efficiency.

Required Skills & Competencies Successful candidates will bring strong technical and interpersonal capabilities, including:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build positive working relationships across operational groups, suppliers, customers, and all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work independently while managing larger, moderately complex assignments.
• Working knowledge of aerospace manufacturing processes and quality systems.
• Exposure to product development within a cross-functional or multi-disciplinary team environment (preferred).
• Problem-solving mindset with the ability to make basic adjustments to systems and processes to resolve quality issues.

Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant quality, manufacturing, or aerospace experience.

Why This Role This opportunity is ideal for quality professionals looking to expand their impact within an aerospace manufacturing environment while working on meaningful projects that influence customer satisfaction, compliance, and operational success. The role offers hands-on technical involvement, collaboration across teams, and the ability to apply modern quality methodologies in a real-world production environment.