# Quality Engineer

STS Aerospace is a leading aerospace manufacturing and engineering company specializing in fluid conveyance solutions for commercial aviation, defense, and space applications. The company designs and manufactures high-performance rigid tubing, flexible hose assemblies, and custom-engineered fluid transfer systems used in critical aerospace platforms worldwide. With a strong commitment to quality, innovation, and customer service, STS Aerospace delivers reliable solutions that support the safety and performance of mission-critical aerospace systems. The Quality Engineer - Machine Shop is responsible for supporting and improving product quality, process control, inspection readiness, and customer compliance within a precision CNC machining environment. This role is focused on preventing defects, reducing scrap and rework, improving First Pass Yield (FPY), and ensuring machined components meet engineering drawings, customer requirements, AS9100/AS9102 expectations, and internal quality standards. The ideal candidate is hands-on, technically strong, and comfortable working directly with machinists, inspectors, manufacturing engineering, programming, production, purchasing, and quality

- **Id**: 78316
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/smiths-group-quality-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Elmwood Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-11T15:07:09Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T21:24:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 93
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5612
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Mechanical Components & Fasteners, Passive Components & Connectors, Homeland Security

## Company

- **Id**: 5486
- **Name**: Smiths Group
- **Domain**: smiths.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/smiths-group-plc>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 103
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.961
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 70000
- **Max usd**: 128000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 4330

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Excel** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 92

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-08-11T15:07:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.41
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 92
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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