Job Title: Quality Engineer
Location: Bertram, TX
Employment Type: Contract (6 months)
Industry: Aerospace and Defense
Compensation: $50.00 - $65.00 / hr.
Schedule: 40 hrs/Week.
About the Opportunity:
- Partner with design engineering and manufacturing teams through product development and production to create quality plans for flight products, including identification of key characteristics, development testing for functionality and manufacturability, first article and detailed inspection planning, and consideration of past failures and lessons learned.
- Develop and maintain inspection plans on components and sub-assemblies.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
This role offers the opportunity to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while providing you with room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider- we help companies compete for talent. With experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and design talent solutions that deliver the business outcomes they want. We draw on decades of experience to provide contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Develop and maintain equipment, training, and standard work instructions for detailed inspection programs that assure adherence to design, specification, and testing requirements.
- Ensure that all actions required for product acceptance are conducted accurately and efficiently, in alignment with all customer requirements and regulatory standards.
- Generate accurate records for traceability and pedigree of customer-deliverable products, including records of First Article Inspection.
- Lead and support Quality Inspectors in workflow priority, inspection process efficiency, and best-practice inspection methodologies.
- Identify and document non-conformances affecting product reliability and production efficiency.
- Collect, track, and trend production data on first-pass yield and non-conformance issues, performing basic statistical analysis on variable data.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to investigate and resolve non-conformance or quality issues, including development and implementation of robust corrective actions to prevent recurrences.
- Develop and execute quarantine plans to identify, control, and dispose of all affected non-conforming product.
- Maintain tool control and calibration processes within assigned department, including validation of metrology systems.
- Plan and perform periodic product and process audits to ensure compliance with the client's Quality Management System.
- Implement standards, tools, and methods to ensure the effectiveness of quality processes and sustain quality performance improvements.
- Execute projects and process improvements to reduce the cost of poor quality.
- Review designs and provide feedback to mitigate manufacturability and inspection challenges.
- Review procedures and production metrics that impact quality and make necessary changes to ensure compliance with standards and requirements for mission success.
- Provide research and interpretation of regulations and requirements to ensure compliance with external standards.
- Participate in technical operations and offer guidance and serve as an additional technical engineering resource.
- Initiate and execute plans to improve product quality, reliability, and inspection efficiency.
- Apply 5S workplace organization & follow Lean initiatives.
- Support manufacturing compliance with customer and internal specifications to meet contractual and mission requirements.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or Industrial or Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or Mathematics or Physics or Chemistry.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in a manufacturing, quality, and design engineering role.
- 5+ years of experience in standards and equivalent quality, military, or government standards in the aerospace industry.
What Sets You Apart:
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in aerospace manufacturing.
- Demonstrated ability to apply engineering fundamentals, interpret technical information, develop technical instructions, and understand technical drawings, specifications, GD&T, and related quality control documentation and standards.
- Good interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Flexibility regarding workflow and process.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Willingness to work with a team, share expertise, and follow instructions to accomplish established goals.
- Demonstrated experience applying quality assurance principles, methods, and processes, including inspection techniques, equipment, and tools used in quality control.
- Comprehensive understanding of aerospace manufacturing processes, materials, and specifications.
- Demonstrated competency in structures/composites, electrical/avionics, and fluids/propulsion disciplines.
- Full capability to read and understand blueprints, drawings, GD&T, and Model-Based Definitions.
- Knowledge of quality tools such as Lean principles, measurement systems analysis, design of experiments, statistical process control, root cause analysis and corrective action, advanced product quality planning (APQP), metrology, process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA), control plans, and various problem-solving approaches.
- Demonstrated experience with application of aerospace quality standards, such as AS9100 or ISO 9001
- IPC Certification (IPC J-STD-001, IPC-A-600, IPC-A-610, IPC-A-620, IPC-7711/21) and familiarity with NASA-STD-8739.4.
- Experience operating and maintaining a cleanroom per FS209E, ISO 14644-1.
- ASQ CQE.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and drug screen.
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Nov 11, 2026