Quality Engineer — RCCA Program Lead (Supplier Quality)

Key Responsibilities

• Assess client root-cause analyses and containment strategies for adequacy and rigor; disposition each as adequate, needs strengthening, or requires re-analysis. 

• Prioritize the corrective-action portfolio by customer impact, Boeing due date, and recurrence/severity risk; maintain a prioritized RCCA register that drives the working cadence. 

• Lead failure-mechanism analysis using SQA’s proprietary RCCA methodology and toolset; confirm root and contributing causes, identify controls over high-risk mechanisms, and assess the measurement system. 

• Develop sustainable corrective action plans with clear controls to determine effectiveness of the solution. 

• Responsible for clear communication to client and SQA leadership including upkeep of dashboard, due-date tracking, risk and blocker escalation, and weekly and monthly reporting. 

• Prepare and support customer corrective-action response packages (e.g., 8D via SQIS) and manage customer rejections and resubmittals through approval. 

• Capture analyses in the SQA RCCA toolset and export deliverables in the formats the client and customer require (Boeing 8D, STEPQ, Word, Excel, PDF). 

• Partner with client Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, Planning, and Document Control to advance actions while respecting client ownership of implementation, disposition, and customer status outcomes. 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent quality-engineering experience. 

• Minimum 5 years in quality engineering or supplier quality within aerospace, defense, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment. 

• Demonstrated hands-on root-cause and corrective-action experience using structured methods (8D, 5-Why, fishbone/Ishikawa). 

• Working knowledge of AS9100 and experience authoring and closing formal corrective actions to a major OEM customer. 

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple concurrent corrective actions to schedule. 

• Strong technical writing; able to produce audit-ready and customer-ready analyses and responses. 

• Able to work onsite at the client facility in Everett, WA, with travel to client site(s) as required.