Quality Engineer

Precision Castparts Corp. (PCC) is a world-class, global manufacturing organization relentless in its dedication to being the high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer for all of its product lines, delivering the highest value to its customers and shareholders, and continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.
Quality Engineer
Position Summary
The Quality Engineer ensures that products, processes, and systems meet defined standards of quality, reliability, and performance. This role drives continuous improvement, leads root cause investigations, and partners closely with engineering, operations, and suppliers to prevent defects and optimize quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities
* Develop, implement, and maintain quality assurance processes, procedures, and standards.
* Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective/preventive action (CAPA) activities using tools such as 5 Whys, Fishbone, and FMEA.
* Perform process capability studies, statistical analysis, and data driven decision making to improve product quality.
* Collaborate with design engineering to ensure manufacturability and quality are built into new products (PFMEA, control plans).
* Conduct internal and supplier audits to ensure compliance with AS9100 or other relevant standards.
* Develop inspection criteria, test methods, and quality documentation.
* Support production teams with troubleshooting, training, and continuous improvement initiatives.
* Specifications and Customer requirements to ensure ERP system is meeting all requirements
* Work with customers and sales groups on concession requests.
* Monitor KPIs such as defect rates, yield, scrap, and customer complaints; drive improvement plans.
* Work with suppliers to resolve quality issues and improve incoming material quality.
* Champion a culture of quality across the organization.

Required Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, or related field).
* 2-5+ years of experience in quality engineering, manufacturing engineering, or process engineering.
* Strong knowledge of quality tools and methodologies (SPC, FMEA, MSA, control plans, Lean/Six Sigma).
* Experience with AS9100 or other quality management systems.
* Proficiency with data analysis tools (Excel, Minitab, JMP, or similar).
* Excellent problem solving, communication, and cross functional collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
* Familiarity with GD&T and engineering drawings.
* Experience with supplier quality management.
* Hands on experience in a manufacturing environment.

Competencies
* Analytical mindset with strong attention to detail.
* Ability to lead investigations and influence without authority.
* Continuous improvement orientation.
* Strong documentation and organizational skills.
* Ability to thrive in a fast paced, cross functional environment.

Why Join Us
* Opportunity to shape quality systems and processes.
* Collaborative, engineering driven culture.
* Growth opportunities in quality, operations, and engineering.
* Competitive compensation and benefits.

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability - not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.