Senior Marine Quality Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Quality Engineering Leadership: Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of quality assurance processes across shipyard operations, including fabrication, assembly, outfitting, systems…
• Quality Systems and Compliance: Own and strengthen quality processes to ensure compliance with applicable maritime, defense, and customer requirements, including ISO 9001, ABS, and U.S. Navy standards, as applicable.
• Inspection and Verification: Provide technical oversight of critical manufacturing and integration activities, including welding, hull construction, mechanical systems, electrical systems, and vessel-level integration.
• Root Cause and Corrective Action: Lead investigations into complex nonconformances, recurring defects, and systemic quality issues.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve product quality, manufacturing consistency, process capability, and production efficiency.
• Nonconformance and Risk Management: Establish and oversee processes for identifying, documenting, evaluating, and resolving nonconforming materials, components, and assemblies.
• Cross-Functional Technical Leadership: Serve as a senior quality resource to engineering, production, supply chain, and program management teams.
• Documentation and Quality Reporting: Own the integrity and accuracy of quality documentation, including inspection records, test reports, nonconformance reports, corrective action records, and acceptance documentation.

Job requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience: 7+ years of experience in quality engineering, quality assurance, or a related technical discipline within shipbuilding, maritime, defense, or complex manufacturing environments.
• Marine and Defense Standards: Strong understanding of applicable maritime, military, and customer quality requirements. Experience working with ABS, U.S.
• Technical Expertise: Extensive knowledge of shipyard and marine manufacturing processes, including hull fabrication, welding, mechanical outfitting, electrical integration, and vessel-level systems integration.
• Quality Engineering Methods: Demonstrated proficiency in root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, nonconformance management, risk assessment, inspection planning, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Inspection and Testing: Experience developing or overseeing inspection and test plans, evaluating inspection results, verifying product conformity, and supporting harbor trials, sea trials, and final vessel acceptance.
• Leadership and Influence: Ability to lead cross-functional quality initiatives, provide technical direction, mentor team members, and influence stakeholders across engineering, production, supply chain, and program…
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a demonstrated ability to independently resolve complex quality issues, assess technical risk, and implement sustainable corrective actions in a…