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Senior Associate, Quality Engineering

Alpharetta, Georgia
Full Time On-site

Summary

Job Description

Coordinates efforts/monitors/improves aerospace program product yield (and other manufacturing metrics). This role creates and modifies procedures and/or controls ensuring product conformance to regulatory, customer, and company requirements.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

  • Perform product containment actions, root cause investigations, corrective and preventive actions on non-conformances for customer returns, and /or production quality internal and external escapes.
  • Review, identify, implement and maintain Customer Quality flow down requirements
  • Support needed actions to support continued AS9100 certification and maintenance.
  • Provides liaison activities with customers, suppliers, and Integrated Product Team members on all quality-related activities.
  • Perform product quality audits to assure compliance with customer, drawing, internal, and regulatory requirements
  • Perform system audits in support of the Quality Management System
  • Perform review of customer quality clauses, quality documents and provide compliance matrix
  • Support Operations to ensure that products and processes comply with the relevant requirements of the quality management system
  • Review trend analyses related to field returns, manufacturing rejects, supplier history, etc., and provide and/or complete recommendations for improvement
  • Support development/management of data and metrics using Data Visualization tools (Power BI)
  • Responsible for participating in continual improvement activities to enhance the quality system, such as 5S, Kaizen, lean methods, mistake-proofing, etc
  • Responsible for performing job duties in a manner consistent with established L3Harris Ethics Standards. Responsible for working in a manner consistent with established safety rules and regulations
  • Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

  • Knowledgeable of concepts, practices, policies/procedures in engineering
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills. Excellent team player with ability to interface with all levels of the organization.
  • Interact effectively with management, peers, and other employees relative to quality and technical issues.
  • Proficient in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Experience in Aerospace/Defense parts manufacturing or Automotive parts manufacturing

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About L3 Harris

L3 Harris

L3 Harris is one of the largest defense and aerospace companies in the United States, delivering advanced technologies that support missions across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains. The company develops communications systems, space payloads, intelligence platforms, electronic warfare capabilities, missile defense technologies, and mission-critical sensors used by the U.S. military, intelligence community, and allied nations around the world.

For job seekers, L3Harris offers opportunities across engineering, software development, cybersecurity, space systems, manufacturing, intelligence, program management, and mission operations. The company is especially attractive to veterans, cleared professionals, and engineers who want to work on advanced technologies that directly support national security. With programs spanning tactical communications, ISR platforms, satellite systems, and defense electronics, employees have the opportunity to contribute to some of the military’s most important capabilities.

Unlike companies focused on a single mission area, L3Harris operates across a diverse portfolio of defense technologies, providing employees exposure to a broad range of programs and technical disciplines. Teams work on everything from secure communications and autonomous systems to space-based sensors and electronic warfare platforms, creating opportunities for both specialization and long-term career growth within the organization.

As governments continue investing in modernization, space capabilities, resilient communications, and advanced sensing technologies, L3Harris remains one of the most important employers in the defense industry. For professionals seeking a mission-driven career with strong growth opportunities, technical challenges, and direct impact on global security, L3Harris continues to stand out as a leading destination in aerospace and defense.

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