Brief Description:

• The Development Quality Assurance Engineer will independently conduct activities to ensure engineering compliance to applicable regulatory, industry, customer, and company standards, processes, and procedures with regard to product development.
• This role is responsible for leading DQA team activities in specific project/area and utilizing experience and expertise to solve problems, develop and execute objectives and to have the ability to affect short-term and long-term business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing independent assurance that external standards (including governmental, industrial, and contractual) as applicable to Engineering development are met in AAM domain.
• Responsible for ensuring that internal AVIONOVA procedures, policies, and processes are followed while the System developed is the result of suitable, rigorous, structured processes enacted throughout the product lifecycle
• Conduct assessments / audits of System Engineering activities to gauge compliance with applicable regulatory, industrial, and company standards via audit, review and other methods
• Review technical documentation with a view to Quality and Compliance requirements and act as approval authority
• Generate plans and work instructions for execution of System Engineering Quality Assurance functions
• Serve as domain expert with regard to Systems/Software Engineering standards such as SAE ARP 4754, RTCA DO-297 and DO-178B
• Familiar with AS9100 standard and support certification activities
• Participate in Systems / Software level and product level interdisciplinary product development teams
• Provide regular and thorough status reports and data to the Development Quality Assurance Manager
• Ensure Quality records are maintained, metrics collected, and reports given back to the business
• Evaluate, develop, and publish quality metrics and audit results to the project team and stakeholders
• Interface with, and provide support to, regulatory authorities, customer representatives, and supplier representatives
• Conduct training to quality processes as needed to the organization or other teams
• Conduct root cause / corrective action investigations using appropriate procedures as needed
• Support continuous process improvement of DQA processes and organizational processes
• Generate and maintain objective evidence of assessment activities for customer and regulatory review

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution/university
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in an Aerospace development environment for Systems or Software
• Knowledge with AS9100 or equivalent
• Knowledge with SAE ARP 4754, RTCA DO-297 and DO-178
• Strong oral and written English communication skills
• Ability and willingness to travel both domestically and internationally if required

Qualifications Desired:

• Strong personal code of ethics and high level of integrity
• Ability to drive changes in team or organization
• ASQ or other professional certifications
• Recognized as an authority in a quality assurance field
• Strong oral and written English communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Personal computer (PC) proficiency
• Extensive background in aerospace electronics / avionics engineering and development
• A thorough understanding of FAA/EASA aircraft, systems or software certification processes (TC, STC, PMA, TSO, etc.)