Associate Quality System Specialist
Boeing
Posted: February 16, 2026
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Manages and sustains aircraft logbooks, maintenance publications, and related documentation to ensure required logs are current and accessible for the MQ-25 UAS Flight Test Program.
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Job Description
Associate Quality System Specialist
Company:
The Boeing Company
The Boeing Company is looking for an Associate Quality System Specialist to join our Boeing Test and Evaluation (BT&E) team at the Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, MD. This role supports the MQ-25 UAS Flight Test Program by managing and sustaining aircraft logbooks, maintenance publications, and related documentation. The specialist will ensure all required logs are current and accessible, prepare reports and correspondence, and support aircraft maintenance and operations activities. The ideal candidate has experience in aircraft maintenance documentation, is self-motivated, and can work independently with minimal supervision.
Position Responsibilities:
• Reviews proposals, contracts, regulatory, program and customer requirements ensuring early quality involvement in program development
• Prepares and maintains Quality directives, policies, processes, procedures and metrics to assure program, contract, customer, regulatory requirements, international standards and working agreements are deployed
• Analyzes process data, metrics, models and flows to identify root cause of problems. Participates with stakeholders to develop potential preventive or corrective actions and implementation
• Conducts research, compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics, to continuously improve process capability
• Conducts quality source selection and process reviews of suppliers' ability to meet program quality requirements and support business decisions, and develops a coordinated response for management review and approval
• Conducts hardware, software and system level audits to determine compliance with quality management system standards, configuration assurance, related business, regulatory and customer requirements and reports results to management
• Analyzes data to provide material review dispositions for nonconforming materials, parts and equipment
• Works under general direction
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
• 3+ years of experience with flight line operations
• 3+ years of experience in Quality Assurance
• 1+ years of experience in Quality Management Systems (QMS)
• Experience documenting corrective actions and non-conformance
• Experience with Configuration management
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
• Active security clearance
• Experience with maintenance planning operations
• Experience with release of aircraft for flight
• Experience utilizing the current management information system(s) to maintain aircraft forms and records as required
• Experience with Technical Directive compliance entries
• Experience with all current and future reporting required through Navy/Marine Corps systems (e.g. Optimized-Organizational Maintenance Activity (OOMA), Naval Air Technical Data and Engineering Services Command (NATEC)
• Experience with processing readiness documents, administering the aircraft configuration status accounting program and verifying aircraft utilization reports
• Experience with compliance with processes and procedures as per Department of Defense (DOD) documents and publications
• Experience with assisting in maintaining Naval Aviation programs
Drug Free Workplace:
Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.
Conflict of Interest:
Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
Pay & Benefits:
At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Summary Pay Range for Associate level (Level 2): $83,300 – $112,700
Language Requirements:
Not Applicable
Education:
Not Applicable
Relocation:
This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.
Export Control Requirement:
This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Safety Sensitive:
This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.
Security Clearance:
This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.
Visa Sponsorship:
Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Contingent Upon Award Program
This position is not contingent upon program award
Shift:
Shift 1 (United States of America)
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