Immediate need for a talented MB-Quality Applications Engineer. This is a 06 Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Costa Mesa, CA (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID: 26-34796
Pay Range: $100 - $110/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:
- Authoring and maintaining controlled inspection procedures, NDT technique sheets, and metrology work instructions, released under change control against specific item revisions
- Defining and proving model-based CMM and inspection programming methods from PMI-bearing NX models, on real part geometry
- Building the characteristic-to-inspection traceability model and the data return specification that closes the loop from TDP characteristic through to result in Teamcenter and Forge
- Validating deployed quality tools and performing production-readiness assessments, including consumption testing across PLM, CAD, CAM, CAI, and MES integration points
- Operating help-desk and support for deployed model-based quality tools: resolving user issues, debugging workflows, and coordinating defect resolution with vendors
- Evaluating software enhancements and platform updates - NX releases, PMI functionality changes - before they enter the production environment, and integrating approved changes into the tool roadmap
- Executing Gauge R&R and measurement systems analysis studies and building calibration governance across the metrology estate
- Digitizing and structuring legacy NDT technique sheets, procedure sets, and personnel qualification records, and governing NDT certification currency
- Writing and maintaining the tool gap register and backlog-ready requirements for each prioritized deficiency, and tracking closure through the receiving product teams
- Assessing inspection, NDT, and metrology discipline maturity against the NSE MBE Maturity Index and producing the sequenced roadmap between current state and target
- Developing and delivering training materials differentiated by audience - quality engineers, technicians, supplier quality personnel - and maintaining competency records
- Working with Manufacturing, Operations, Supplier Quality, and Digital Technologies teams to understand their digital maturity and provide troubleshooting and adoption support
- Collaborating with software vendors to guide development, enhancement prioritization, and long-term tool evolution
- Providing technical representation at design reviews, audits, customer reviews, and supplier assessments, with written findings and actions from each
Key Requirements and Technology Experience:
- 8 or more years in quality engineering, manufacturing engineering, metrology, or NDT, in aerospace, naval or maritime, medical device, defense, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment,
- with recent years owning methods development and standard work authoring rather than production execution.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience authoring and maintaining controlled standard work - procedures, work instructions, technique sheets - for a quality or manufacturing discipline, released under formal change control and tied to item revisions.
- Working proficiency in model-based inspection programming on at least one platform in use in the industry: Zeiss Calypso, Hexagon PC-DMIS, CAMIO, PolyWorks Inspector, or comparable. You have personally written inspection programs that run on a CMM or portable arm, not just managed people who do.
- Working knowledge of GD&T per ASME Y14.5, characteristics per the DMSC MBC standard, and how both map to inspection planning and inspection programming. You can make specific decisions about how a datum reference frame becomes a measurement setup.
- Familiarity with destructive and non-destructive testing methods as applied to structural metallic parts: at minimum awareness of the applicable methods, technique sheet structure, and personnel qualification requirements under NAS410 or ASNT SNT-TC-1A.
- Working knowledge of measurement systems analysis: you have planned and executed Gauge R&R studies and can explain what the result means for a measurement decision.
- Ability to read and work with model-based definition data formats: STEP AP242, QIF, and JT, and specifically how PMI and characteristics are carried in each for inspection use.
- Experience performing tool validation or production-readiness assessment for deployed quality or engineering software, including consumption testing and defect documentation.
- On site, Costa Mesa, California; remote exceptions at management discretion for exceptional candidates
- Direct, hands-on experience with Siemens NX at the level of PMI reading and model completeness assessment, and with Teamcenter or Active Workspace at the item revision and dataset level.
- NDT Level II or Level III certification in one or more methods (UT, RT, MT, PT, ET), or demonstrated experience managing a multi-method personnel certification program to NAS410, ASNT SNT-TC-1A, or CP-189.
- Experience with large-volume metrology - laser tracker, structured-light scanning, photogrammetry - applied to ships, hull sections, or other large fabricated structures, including measurement uncertainty estimation.
- Experience with a manufacturing execution or digital-thread platform such as Forge, Siemens Opcenter, or Solumina/iBase-t, and with how inspection data returns to those systems.
- Experience with MIL-STD-31000 Technical Data Packages and AS9102 First Article Inspection.
- Background in shipbuilding, submarine construction, aerospace structures, or another large discrete assembly environment with complex inspection and NDT regimes.
- Experience with Palantir Foundry or a comparable data integration platform used for quality data analytics or digital-thread pipelines.
Our client is a leading Defense technology Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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