Senior Advanced Quality Engineer

Qualifications

• You Must Have:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Engineering, Quality, Science, Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in aerospace quality engineering, quality systems, manufacturing quality, design quality, supplier quality, or a related regulated-industry role.
• Working knowledge of AS9100, ISO 9001, applicable aerospace regulatory requirements, and customer-specific quality requirements.
• Experience leading quality management system governance, internal and external audits, nonconformance management, and corrective and preventive action across multiple sites or business units.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex root cause investigations using structured methods such as 8D, 5 Why, fault-tree analysis, and Lean Six Sigma tools.
• Experience using quality metrics, statistical analysis, and trend data to identify systemic risk, establish priorities, and drive measurable improvement.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, contractual quality clauses, and regulatory requirements and translate them into effective controls.
• Strong executive communication, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills in a global matrix organization.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and deliver measurable results in a fast-paced global matrix environment.
• Strong analytical, organizational, facilitation, and project-management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, quality data systems, dashboards, and enterprise tools such as SAP.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally to support sites, suppliers, customers, and audits.
• Eligibility to access ITAR-controlled information, products, and technology and to obtain and maintain any required U.S. government authorization.
• ITAR Specific Requirements:
• Must be a U.S. Person, as defined by applicable U.S. export-control laws and regulations, or otherwise eligible to obtain and maintain any U.S. government authorization required for access to ITAR-controlled technical data, defense articles, or defense services.
• Demonstrated understanding of ITAR compliance obligations, including access restrictions, technical-data controls, export authorization, secure handling, and prevention of unauthorized exports or deemed exports.
• Ability to identify, mark, store, transmit, discuss, and dispose of ITAR-controlled technical data in accordance with approved company procedures and authorized systems.
• Experience incorporating export-control requirements into quality processes, audits, corrective actions, supplier oversight, document control, configuration management, and records retention.
• Ability to complete required ITAR and export-compliance training and maintain ongoing compliance with applicable policies, licenses, agreements, provisos, and technology-control plans.
• Ability to maintain accurate and auditable records demonstrating compliance with applicable export-control requirements.
• We Value:
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Quality, Business, or a related field.
• Experience with ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO 13485, IATF 16949, or other regulated-industry quality standards relevant to the product portfolio.
• ASQ certification such as Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence, Certified Quality Auditor, or equivalent.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
• AS9100 lead auditor qualification and experience supporting certification, customer, regulatory, and special-process audits.
• Experience supporting an aerospace Safety Management System (SMS), including safety risk management, safety assurance, occurrence reporting, and continuous improvement.
• Experience with FAA, EASA, Defense Contract Management Agency, Defense Contract Audit Agency, and other aerospace or defense oversight requirements, as applicable.
• Knowledge of AS9145/APQP, PPAP, FMEA, control plans, statistical process control, measurement-system analysis, first article inspection, and configuration management.
• Experience supporting product certification, regulatory compliance, test laboratories, or global approval agencies.
• Experience establishing enterprise quality strategy, standardizing processes, and building maturity QMS across geographically dispersed sites.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence across functions, sites, and levels of the organization
• Experience leading supplier quality improvement, supplier recovery, and systemic corrective action across complex global supply chains.
• Demonstrated by successfully reducing customer escapes, quality PPM, cost of poor quality, audit findings, and operational disruption.
• Ability to coach senior leaders and technical teams, manage competing priorities, and deliver sustainable results without direct authority.
• US Person:
• Due to compliance with U.S export control laws and regulations, candidate must be a US person which is defined as a US Citizen, a US permanent resident, or have protected status in the US under asylum or refugee status.

About Honeywell Technologies:

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead quality planning and execution for HSS products and processes, including new product introduction, change management, production, and post-delivery support.
• Ensure compliance with the applicable quality management system, customer requirements, engineering specifications, and industry standards, including ISO 9001 and AS9100 where applicable.
• Lead root cause and corrective action activities using structured methods such as 8D, 5 Why, fault-tree analysis, and other Six Sigma tools; verify effectiveness and prevent recurrence.
• Analyze quality data and performance trends, including customer escapes, defects, warranty, scrap, rework, and cost of poor quality; translate findings into prioritized improvement plans.
• Facilitate risk-based assessments such as FMEA and control-plan reviews to identify and mitigate product and process risks.
• Partner with Engineering and Operations to establish inspection, test, validation, and acceptance criteria that support capable and stable processes.
• Support internal, customer, registrar, and regulatory audits; address findings and sustain audit readiness.
• Collaborate with suppliers and Supplier Quality to resolve material and component issues, improve supplier capability, and strengthen incoming quality performance.
• Serve as a quality representative in cross-functional reviews, customer communications, and escalation forums; communicate status, risk, containment, and recovery plans clearly.
• Coach and mentor colleagues on quality tools, standards, problem solving, and prevention-focused decision making.
• Drive continuous improvement using Lean Six Sigma and Honeywell operating-system principles.
• Travel 20-30% domestically or internationally as business needs require.