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Through the integration of additive manufacturing, the company aims to meet the growing and urgent needs for unmanned aerial defense by dramatically improving a jet engine’s speed to market, fuel efficiency, and cost.\nFounded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, with additional facilities in Knoxville, Tennessee, Loveland Ohio, and Mount Vernon, Ohio. Beehive is committed to grow and advance the defense industrial base while manufacturing exclusively in the USA. This role will be located at our Cincinnati, Ohio facility.\nRole Overview\nBeehive Industries is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead customer-facing quality activities within our Additively Enabled Castings (AEC) business. AEC uses advanced additive manufacturing and casting technologies to accelerate the development and production of complex aerospace and defense components.\nThe Customer Quality Engineer will serve as the primary quality interface for assigned customers throughout new product introduction, product qualification, production launch, and recurring manufacturing. This individual will interpret customer-specific quality requirements, establish quality and qualification plans, coordinate required evidence, manage customer submissions, and drive quality issues through resolution.\nThe Customer Quality Engineer will partner closely with Engineering, Operations, and Quality Inspection. The role requires both technical quality-engineering capability and strong customer communication skills. The successful candidate will be comfortable working through complex customer requirements, accurately managing multiple qualification and documentation packages, communicating difficult information, and establishing structure in a rapidly scaling manufacturing environment.\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nCustomer Quality Interface\nServe as the primary day-to-day quality contact for assigned AEC customers.\nDevelop trusted relationships with customer quality, engineering, sourcing, and program representatives.\nLead customer quality reviews covering qualification status, documentation, nonconformances, escapes, corrective actions, process changes, and quality performance.\nProvide timely, accurate, and transparent communication regarding quality risks, issues, containment, investigations, and corrective actions.\nCoordinate responses to customer quality inquiries, concerns, complaints, and requests for information.\nRepresent Beehive during customer audits, source inspections, qualification reviews, corrective-action meetings, and other quality-related engagements.\nLead quality communications when issues could affect product conformity, qualification, shipment, or customer acceptance.\nPartner with the Manufacturing Programs to ensure quality requirements, approvals, and risks are reflected in customer commitments and integrated program schedules.\nEscalate unresolved quality issues or overdue approvals that could affect program execution or customer satisfaction.\n\nCustomer Requirements and Quality Planning\nReview purchase orders, drawings, specifications, quality clauses, customer flowdowns, and contractual requirements to identify applicable quality obligations.\nInterpret customer-specific quality requirements and translate them into clear internal plans, processes, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.\nEnsure customer quality requirements are appropriately flowed down to Engineering, Operations, Inspection, Sourcing, and external suppliers.\nDevelop and maintain program quality plans, qualification plans, control plans, inspection plans, and customer deliverables matrices.\nEstablish quality milestones for new product introduction, including process validation, inspection readiness, First Article Inspection, and customer approval.\nParticipate in design, manufacturing-readiness, and production-readiness reviews to ensure quality requirements are addressed before release and launch.\nApply risk-based quality-planning tools to identify potential product and process failures before they affect the customer.\nSupport Advanced Product Quality Planning and Production Part Approval activities when required by the customer.\nEvaluate changes to drawings, specifications, materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, equipment, suppliers, or facilities to determine customer notification or approval requirements.\n\nQualification and Customer Documentation\nLead the planning, coordination, review, and submission of customer qualification and quality-documentation packages.\nOwn First Article Inspection planning and submissions in accordance with applicable customer requirements.\nCoordinate customer-required documentation, including:\nFirst Article Inspection and product qualification packages\nManufacturing and process readiness documentation\nMaterial, inspection, testing, and special-process certifications\nCertificates of Conformance and shipment records\nProcess change notifications and customer approval requests\nDeviation, concession, and waiver requests\nCorrective action responses and supporting evidence\nSource inspection, tooling, traceability, and production records\nCustomer-specific forms, reports, and portal submissions\n\nReview submission packages for technical completeness, consistency, traceability, approval, and alignment with applicable revisions.\nSubmit or authorize the submission of quality documentation through customer-designated portals and systems.\nEnsure customer quality records are properly controlled, retained, traceable, and audit ready.\nDevelop standardized templates, workflows, and review practices that improve submission accuracy and scalability.\n\nNonconformance and Corrective Action\nLead or support containment activities for customer complaints, product escapes, and internal nonconformances.\nCoordinate cross-functional root cause investigations using structured problem-solving methods.\nDevelop and manage corrective and preventive action plans, ensuring actions address systemic causes and are completed on time.\nPrepare and present corrective action responses to customers using required customer formats.\nCoordinate deviation, concession, and nonconformance submissions requiring customer review or approval.\nAnalyze defect, escape, rejection, return, and corrective-action data to identify trends and improvement priorities.\nEnsure lessons learned are incorporated into quality plans, control plans, work instructions, inspection methods, and future product launches.\n\nQuality Performance and Continuous Improvement\nDevelop and maintain customer quality dashboards and performance reporting.\nIdentify recurring product, process, and documentation issues and lead cross-functional improvement efforts.\nSupport internal audits and assessments related to customer-specific and program quality requirements.\nCoach employees on customer requirements, quality planning methods, documentation expectations, and structured problem-solving.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, manufacturing, quality, materials science, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience.\nFive or more years of quality engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.\nExperience serving as a customer-facing quality representative or coordinating directly with customer quality organizations.\nExperience interpreting engineering drawings, specifications, purchase order requirements, and customer quality clauses.\nKnowledge of Advanced Product Quality Planning, Production Part Approval Process, PFMEA, control plans, and process validation.\nWorking knowledge of AS9100 requirements.\nExperience planning, preparing, reviewing, or approving First Article Inspection and product qualification packages.\nExperience with nonconformance management, containment, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and effectiveness verification.\nStrong written communication, presentation, facilitation, and customer management skills.\nDemonstrated ability to communicate quality issues candidly while maintaining customer confidence.\nAbility to coordinate and influence cross-functional teams without relying on direct reporting authority.\nStrong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple customers, programs, part numbers, and deadlines.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with castings, investment casting, additive manufacturing, machining, or other complex aerospace components.\nExperience with aerospace special processes and applicable supplier or customer approval requirements.\nFamiliarity with NADCAP-controlled processes.\nExperience managing customer deviations, concessions, escapes, and corrective-action submissions.\nWorking knowledge of GD&T and dimensional-inspection methods.\nExperience supporting customer audits, source inspections, production-readiness reviews, and supplier-quality assessments.\nIf this sounds like you, please submit an application with your resume. This could be the opportunity you are looking for to expand your skills, contribute to a winning team, and work with talented people who love what they do and take pride in our mission.\nBeehive Industries offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes group Medical, Dental, Life, and Short and Long-Term disability coverage from day one. We also offer a generous 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a Company match. Every role at Beehive Industries is bonus eligible and will also receive equity in the company.\nBeehive Industries is committed to full compliance with applicable anti-discrimination laws. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. 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