This Quality Control Analyst Sr. provides direct support to the 2nd‑shift inspection team, ensuring forward‑fuselage components meet all customer and regulatory requirements for both manufactured and purchased items. Key responsibilities include:
- Liaising with DCMA customer representatives to interpret and enforce contractual quality standards.
- Supporting aircraft and material surveys, purges, and quality containments.
- Supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
- Developing, updating, and maintaining comprehensive quality plans, procedures, and records‑control processes.
- Collecting, analyzing, and reporting quality‑related data/metrics from production, service, suppliers, and process‑improvement initiatives using statistical methods.
- Collaborating with manufacturing, engineering, customers, vendors, and subcontractors to verify that process specifications are satisfied.
- Initiating and coordinating disposition and corrective‑action efforts for recurring product or process discrepancies.
- Reviewing assembled, tested, mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical quality records for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
- Managing the quality‑records control system to ensure traceability, accountability, and proper documentation.
- Supporting product acceptance and timely delivery in accordance with established procedures.
This role demands a strong analytical mindset, autonomous initiative, effective communication across multiple stakeholders, and a deep commitment to upholding company and regulatory quality standards.
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years of aerospace quality experience in a manufacturing or maintenance setting.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Skilled in the use of precision measuring instruments and inspection equipment.
- Strong ability to read and interpret blueprints, engineering specifications, technical data, and work instructions to ensure compliance and product integrity.
Desired Skills
- Proven experience with the F‑35 program or comparable military‑aircraft platforms.
- Hands‑on familiarity with manufacturing execution and enterprise tools, including SFM, VAS, Apriso, and PDM systems.
- Direct involvement in Final Acceptance and Safety‑of‑Flight inspections.
- Strong customer‑interface abilities, capable of communicating technical requirements and status updates effectively.
- Demonstrated capacity to multitask and operate independently in a fast‑paced, shift‑based environment.
- Proficiency in data analysis and visualization, with practical experience using Tableau.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, complex formulas, data modeling) and confident creation of professional PowerPoint presentations.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $72500.00 - $134600.00
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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.