Quality Tech

Job Description

How does it feel to work on a team driven to make a big impact? Empowering.

BAE Systems is looking for a Quality Engineering Technician (QE Tech) to join our innovative prototype facility in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

In this dynamic role, you will be at the heart of our development process, working closely with Quality Management, Operations, and Engineering to validate compliance with technical drawings and contractual quality requirements. You will play a critical role in ensuring the precision of our Prototype Network products by operating portable Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM) for both component and assembly-level inspections.

Your Day-to-Day:

• Precision Inspection: Perform detailed dimensional, data, and visual inspections across a wide variety of prototype products and processes, including manufacturing, assembly, test, and receiving.
• Collaborative Support: Act as a key resource on the prototype shop floor, collaborating with multiple internal customers to solve problems in real-time.
• Safety First: Uphold the highest safety standards and consistently utilize required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to ensure a secure working environment.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Typically requires a High School diploma and three years Quality related experience, or the overall equivalent;
• Must be capable in performing inspection duties to quality requirements, and inspection instructions;
• Experienced in GD&T, with knowledge and expertise in blueprint interpretation;
• Knowledge and hands-on experience using measurement and test equipment and familiar with calibration recall processes to ensure product conformance;
• Expertise setting up, programming, and operating a portable coordinate measuring machine (probe, laser tracker and scan);
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, to effectively liaison, interface, and collaborate with engineers, shop technicians, procurement, management, and the customer pertaining to product and process issues;
• Ability to generate concise problem description of non-conforming situations with detail and accuracy;
• Competency to create non-conformance documentation in accordance with company policy and procedure(s);
• Experience working within a manufacturing environment (prototype preferred), and specifically, with fully integrated systems;
• Must be capable of working both independently and in a team environment (shop technicians, engineering, DCMA, management, supply chain);
• Must be comfortable working in, around, and on large equipment;