Quality Assurance Engineer

Rantec is hiring a Quality Assurance Engineer - Join our team! (Only considering candidates in CA) Come join our team!  Located in Los Osos, Ca, Rantec is an upper-tier designer and manufacturer of power supplies for the military and aerospace markets.

We are an engineering-based company, with expertise in all aspects of power supply design, manufacturing and test.  Rantec offers many outstanding benefits to include :

• Competitive wages Great benefits - i.e. Medical (PPO, HSA), Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts Vacation - 2 weeks accrued per year to start, Holidays, PSL Tuition Assistance 401K with matching up to 6% Years of Service Awards.
• We have every other Friday off as we are on the 9 / 80 schedule Free catered lunch on the Friday / payday that we work.  Position Summary Provide quality assurance engineering support to product realization processes (requirements review / planning, design development, procurement and production).
• Perform quality engineering functional role in material review disposition, communicate and ensure compliance to customer requirements from design to delivery in the aerospace, power supply, PWB, machining and magnetics industry.
• Essential Duties and Responsibilities Support the maintenance of the Quality Management System (QMS) and its compliance to AS9100.
• Perform audits of specific areas, processes, and procedures including internal QMS audits.
• Contract / Purchase Order requirements review and ensuring subsequent compliance.
• Evaluate and approve configuration changes.
• Provide technical and compliance support to design and production activities to achieve compliance to customer requirements.  Be able to make decisions (referee) on product conformity issues.
• Interface with customers when necessary.
• As needed, coordinate outside lab failure analysis toward effective results.
• Create First Article Inspection (FAI) plans for upcoming programs.
• Responsible for supplier evaluation, monitoring and development.
• Meet with suppliers regularly through conferences, Team meetings, and in-person to handle material, parts, and quality issues.
• Periodic on-site visits to evaluate / audit supplier manufacturing sites, and production processes.
• Support the maintenance of the Approved Supplier List (ASL).
• Support and lead problem solving efforts with suppliers Review engineering, customer and military specifications and drawings to interpret requirements.
• Support the creation of Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA).
• Create Control Plans (CP) for high-impact parts.
• Implement control plans at suppliers.
• Create Inspection Plans (IP) from supplier inspection data.
• Support, direct, analyze and approve supplier first article parts, and reports (FAIRS / PPAP).
• Analyze defect data to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
• Support project teams to implement risk reductions and improvements.

Lead supplier preventive and corrective action activities including containment, root cause analysis and corrective action (RCCA).  Complete assigned training.  When called upon, support QA training activities such as :

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