Quality Engineer (Everett, WA)
Thank you for your interest in Korry Electronics!
Our company culture is focused around ownership, transparency, process improvement and trust & respect. We are looking for talented people (like you!) to lead our business to the next level while giving you the opportunity to develop your own career.
We have been at the forefront of the aviation industry since the beginning, creating the first lighted cockpit controls for the military and commercial aircraft industry. The Korry product team continues this tradition as it develops the crew station of the future, providing state-of-the-art switches, cockpit controls, high-performance displays, and night-vision filters. We are passionate about what we do. For more information, please visit www.korry.com.
Join the Korry team and find out why this is such a great place to spend your career!
What You Will Do:
As a quality engineer, you will lead without authority, influencing teams to achieve goals. You will bring your passion for quality, knowing that anything worth doing is worth doing right! You will use data to take action and solve problems, and work to understand our business as a whole.
Primary Responsibilities:
Education and Experience:
Please note the typical hiring range is $90,000 - $130,000 annually. Job offers within the range are based on significant job qualifications and pay equity.
Where We Work:
Our headquarters, a 216,000 square foot facility, is located in Everett, Washington. Everett is a great place to live and work; just 30 miles north of Seattle. This thriving community is an aerospace hub! The city, and nearby cities of Mukilteo and Snohomish, offer excellent public schools, fabulous parks, beaches, and safe streets. You can dip your toes in salt water and ski down a mountain all in the same day. Nature is truly right outside your door.
Benefits Package Details for Regular Full-time Employees:
Eligible candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.
This position requires access to export control information. To conform to US Export Control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US Government.
Our company culture is focused around ownership, transparency, process improvement and trust & respect. We are looking for talented people (like you!) to lead our business to the next level while giving you the opportunity to develop your own career.
We have been at the forefront of the aviation industry since the beginning, creating the first lighted cockpit controls for the military and commercial aircraft industry. The Korry product team continues this tradition as it develops the crew station of the future, providing state-of-the-art switches, cockpit controls, high-performance displays, and night-vision filters. We are passionate about what we do. For more information, please visit www.korry.com.
Join the Korry team and find out why this is such a great place to spend your career!
What You Will Do:
As a quality engineer, you will lead without authority, influencing teams to achieve goals. You will bring your passion for quality, knowing that anything worth doing is worth doing right! You will use data to take action and solve problems, and work to understand our business as a whole.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Monitor, analyze, and improve quality performance
- Make sure that materials, equipment, processes and products meet our strict quality specifications
- Collaborate with cross-functional peers to develop and implement controls and improvements
- Guarantee that processes and products comply with customer and regulatory requirements
- Investigate root cause to permanently resolve product and production issues
- Develop and implement robust corrective actions, solutions, and improvements
- Communicate with our customers to resolve issues and drive improvements
- Represent Quality in early-phase new product introduction projects
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM field or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of related experience in a highly regulated industry preferred
- Familiarity with AS9100 or ISO9001 Quality Management System and/or related quality systems and program
- Experience with control of Nonconforming Material (MRB)and First Articles (FAI)
- Experience with initiating and leading corrective and preventative actions. Including proper selection and application of techniques such as Operational Excellence Tools (8D, 5 Why, Fish Bone, DMAIC) to obtain effective solutions
- Demonstrated ability to work on a variety of problems of diverse scope and complexity where analysis and evaluation of various outcomes require trade-offs and negotiation
- Ability to think independently, objectively, and with an open mind
- Experience reading and interpreting technical drawings, GD&T, schematics, and computer-generated reports.
- Working knowledge of statistics as it applies to test (Gage R&R, DOE, etc.)
- Experience using a failure / root cause / corrective action process (5why, RCA, CAPA or 8D).
- Excellent teamwork/interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively, both within and outside one's own work group.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint
Please note the typical hiring range is $90,000 - $130,000 annually. Job offers within the range are based on significant job qualifications and pay equity.
Where We Work:
Our headquarters, a 216,000 square foot facility, is located in Everett, Washington. Everett is a great place to live and work; just 30 miles north of Seattle. This thriving community is an aerospace hub! The city, and nearby cities of Mukilteo and Snohomish, offer excellent public schools, fabulous parks, beaches, and safe streets. You can dip your toes in salt water and ski down a mountain all in the same day. Nature is truly right outside your door.
Benefits Package Details for Regular Full-time Employees:
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with generous company contribution
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) matching
- 12 paid holidays (including a holiday shutdown week)
- Minimum of three weeks paid time off plus one week paid sick time to start
- Tuition reimbursement
- Parental leave
- Short term and long term disability
- Life insurance
- Accidental death & dismemberment insurance
- Long-term care plan options
- Prescription safety shoe & glasses benefit
- Vanpool subsidy
- Recognition awards
- Employee referral bonuses
- EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
Eligible candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.
This position requires access to export control information. To conform to US Export Control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US Government.
Korry Electronics is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, marital status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, childbirth, genetic information, or military and veteran status.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our application process as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact the Human Resources Department at 425-297-9700.
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Job Family: Engineering Services
This is a non-management position
This is a full time position
Pay Rate: $90,000 - $130,000 annually