Highlights
Turbine Kinetics, Inc., an aerospace company specializing in aircraft and engine components, is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer to ensure that purchased products and services consistently meet company, customer, and regulatory requirements. Lead root-cause investigations using tools such as 5 Whys, Fishbone Diagrams, 8D, and corrective and preventive action methods.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Glastonbury, CT |
| Industry | Aerospace and Defense |
| Company Size | 5,000 to 9,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1957 |
| Website | https://www.heico.com/ |
Description
Turbine Kinetics, Inc., an aerospace company specializing in aircraft and engine components, is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer to ensure that purchased products and services consistently meet company, customer, and regulatory requirements.
This position will work closely with suppliers, Engineering, Purchasing, Operations, and Quality to resolve supplier-related issues, improve supplier performance, and maintain compliance with aerospace quality standards.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Evaluate, qualify, and monitor suppliers based on quality, delivery, technical capability, and overall performance.
- Conduct supplier audits and assessments to ensure compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001, customer requirements, and company procedures.
- Review supplier quality documentation, certifications, inspection reports, and material traceability records.
- Manage supplier nonconformances and issue Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs).
- Lead root-cause investigations using tools such as 5 Whys, Fishbone Diagrams, 8D, and corrective and preventive action methods.
- Review and approve supplier corrective action responses and verify the effectiveness of implemented actions.
- Support First Article Inspection activities in accordance with AS9102 requirements.
- Review engineering drawings, specifications, inspection plans, and purchase order quality requirements.
- Work with suppliers to develop inspection methods, process controls, and continuous improvement plans.
- Monitor supplier performance metrics, including quality, delivery, responsiveness, and corrective action closure.
- Identify high-risk suppliers and develop risk-reduction and supplier improvement plans.
- Assist Purchasing with supplier selection, onboarding, and ongoing performance reviews.
- Support internal, customer, and regulatory audits related to supplier quality.
- Coordinate the disposition of nonconforming supplier material with Engineering, Quality, and Operations.
- Participate in Material Review Board activities when required.
- Support counterfeit-part prevention, product safety, and foreign-object-damage prevention requirements.
- Maintain accurate supplier quality records within the company's quality management system.
- Travel to supplier locations as needed to conduct audits, inspections, investigations, and improvement activities.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
About Company
HEICO Corporation is a successful and growing technology-driven aerospace, industrial, defense and electronics company. For more than 60 years, HEICO has thrived by providing customers with innovative and cost-saving products and services.
HEICO's products are found on large commercial aircraft, regional, business and military aircraft, as well as on a large variety of industrial turbines, targeting systems, missiles and electro-optical devices.
HEICO Corporation is a New York Stock Exchange listed company (NYSE: HEI and HEI.A) and has also been ranked as one of the 100 "World's Most Innovative Growth Companies", 100 "Best Small Companies" and 200 "Hot Shot Stocks" by Forbes over the past decade. With headquarters in Hollywood, Florida, and multiple locations around the world - HEICO provides over 1 million square feet of design, manufacturing, repair, overhaul, distribution, sales and support capabilities.
HEICO Corporation operates in two segments, the Flight Support group and the Electronic Technologies group. The Flight Support group designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs, distributes and overhauls FAA-approved parts that extend over the entire aircraft, from the engines all the way to hydraulic, pneumatic, electromechanical, avionic, structures, wheels and brakes and even interiors.
The Electronic Technologies group produces electrical and electro-optical systems and components serving niche segments of the aerospace, defense, communications, and computer industries. The Electronic Technologies group is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and sale of electrically and electro-optical engineered products used in the aerospace, defense, space, and electronics industries.
By combining state-of-the-art technologies, a team of highly skilled Team Members and an indisputable commitment to quality, both segments have constantly delivered invaluable solutions to customers over the years, helping to position them as leaders within their industries.