Quality Engineer in San Clemente, California at Swift Engineering

About Swift Engineering

If you’re passionate about engineering, innovation and making a difference, we invite you to join the Swift Engineering family. Together, we are shaping the future of aerospace and creating technologies that will change the world.

Job Overview

We are seeking a detail-oriented Quality Engineer to develop, implement, and maintain quality assurance processes that ensure products meet established standards, and customer requirements. This role will involve working closely with Production, Engineering, and Quality teams to identify non-conformances and support continuous improvement initiatives. The role will include the use of a laser tracker, and other high precision measuring tools, to verify part and assembly dimensional compliance.

Duties and Responsibilities as a Quality Engineer

• Perform in-process and final inspections of composite and metallic parts, subassemblies, and finished products.
• Use precision measuring tools (e.g., calipers, micrometers, height gauges, laser trackers) to verify part dimensions and tolerances.
• Monitor production or development processes to ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Document inspection results and non-conformances using appropriate forms, databases, or quality systems (e.g., NCRs, inspection reports).
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing and suppliers to resolve quality issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Interpret technical drawings, blueprints, and specifications, including GD&T requirements.
• Verify compliance with manufacturing process specifications, work instructions, and quality standards (e.g., AS9100, ISO 9001, NADCAP).
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies.
• Develop and maintain quality control and quality assurance procedures.
• Conduct audits, inspections, and quality assessments.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Materials Science or other relevant experiences that are deemed equivalent.
• 2–5+ years of Quality Engineering experience.
• Knowledge of quality tools and methodologies:
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Corrective and Preventive Actions (CPA)
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and work instructions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Proficiency with measurement tools: calipers, micrometers, height gauges.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with a laser tracker or measurement arm (FARO). Experience with Verisurf is a plus.
• Experience with composite parts is a plus.

Must be “US PERSON” per ITAR and OPSEC requirements.

Working Conditions:

Office environment, indoors, air-conditioned, and occasionally maybe in an open shop or field environment. Periodic weekend or evening work is expected.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

Swift Engineering, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Employment with Swift Engineering, Inc. is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.