PB Fasteners

Job Description

Quality Engineer

The Quality Engineer will play a critical role in ensuring compliance with aerospace quality standards and customer requirements. This position will interface with operation managers to resolve major quality issues, support internal manufacturing operations, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. The engineer will be a key contributor to maintaining and advancing AS9100 and NADCAP certifications, with a strong focus on chemical processing, heat treat, and metallic materials (MTL) disciplines.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Promote advanced quality management systems processes across manufacturing operations.
• Drive internal quality improvements using structured problem-solving tools (of A3 Projects, FMEA, 5WHY, Lean).
• Assess and improve process effectiveness and efficiency to reduce variability and defects.
• Provide defect analysis data collection to support root cause investigations.
• Identify root cause for nonconformance and ensure effective corrective actions are implemented
• Conduct process audits to ensure NADCAP compliance and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support capital improvements, documentation, and process standardization.
• Support customer audits and regulatory reviews.
• Support organization growth of AS9100 and NADCAP processes.

Required Skills:

• Knowledge of NADCAP special processes (chemical processing, heat treat, metallic materials testing).
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and communicate with operations, engineering, and customers.
• Strong analytical, decision making, problem solving skills
• Possess understanding of Risk Analysis process, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis process, Fault Tree Analysis, and Requirements and Hazard Traceability processes, Continuous improvement techniques
• Familiarity with Six Sigma Methodology

Required Experience:

• 4+ years manufacturing experience in a quality engineering field with Aerospace customer experience
• Direct experience with ISO 9001, AS9100, and NADCAP requirements.
• Hands-on experience in chemical processing, heat treat operations, and metallic materials testing (MTL).

Level of Education:

• Bachelor’s in Mechanical, Material Science, Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering preferred

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Company Profile

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.