Joseph Ethier
Greer,SC
Summary
Quality Assurance professional with strong background in ensuring product integrity and compliance. Skilled in identifying system inefficiencies, implementing effective quality control measures, and enhancing operational processes. Known for fostering team collaboration and adapting to evolving project demands while consistently achieving high-quality results. Equipped with analytical skills, attention to detail, and commitment to continuous improvement. Over 25 years of F-16 experience.
Overview
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1
Certification
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Assurance Specialist
DCMA Aircraft Propulsion Operations GE Engines
Evendale, OH
- Serves as a member of a multi-functional or technical team as either a resident QAS, Quality Assurance Specialist, at GE Aviation Evendale, Ohio.
- Perform pre-award duties independently or as an Integrated Product/Process Team (IPT) when requested by customers, and accepts products and services for the U.S. Government.
- Reviews contracts and technical data packages to identify the specification requirements which the contractor's processes must meet.
- Identifies differences between contract technical requirements and current contractor processes.
- Establishes a requirement baseline for the processes performed by the contractors.
- Establishes and maintains communications with contractor's top management, including applicable functional managers such as production, engineering, and QA personnel early in the contracting cycle to ensure understanding exists for acceptable quality evidence for performance of such things as purchased materials and vendor controls, shipment, and key process proofing/measurement and analysis.
- Establishes and maintains a communications channel with the Contracting Office and Program Management Office as necessary.
- Notifies contracting offices and specifies preparing activities of deficient contract and technical requirements.
- Reviews and ensures flow-down of contract requirements to the contractor's inspection system and/or quality management system to validate that the contractor has the process for properly extracting and translating these requirements into the appropriate inspection, test, engineering, production, manufacturing, packing/marking, shipping, purchasing, and receiving functions.
- Reviews and ensures equipment, material, people, environment, methods, and other inputs to new/changed production/manufacturing process and associated process controls to assure that the contractual technical requirements are met for new/modified items or for products transitioning from design to production.
- Assesses the contractor's purchased material/vendor QA items for aircraft and support equipment repair.
- Order, maintain, and properly dispose of HAZMAT materials to include; oils, grease, and sealants.
- Reviews contractor's make or buy decisions for new contracts for new items.
- Identifies procured items/services which are complex, critical, or have bad quality histories.
- Reviews/analyzes contractor/vendor QA data and adjusts receiving process/product audits accordingly.
- Selectively requests Government QA at subcontractor level to verify adequacy of prime contractor controls, when necessary.
- Determines when alternative procedures are appropriate or uses as directed (e.g., Alternative Release Procedures, Certificate of Conformance).
- Quality Assurance risk management and assessment.
- Designs, plans, and implements an effective risk management program to ensure that all threats to the successful delivery of the contract are addressed and mitigated in the Government's best interests.
- Series: 1910 - Grade: 11
- Hours per week: 40
F-16 Aircraft Maintenance Craftsman
United States Air Force
Homestead ARB, FL
- Performed scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, troubleshooting, operational checks, engine runs, and inspections on assigned F-16 fighter aircraft.
- Performed duties of the Squadron Training Manager which included; forecasting, scheduling, and monitoring training for all personnel in the Squadron.
- Developed training programs for squadron personnel on performing maintenance, troubleshooting, and tracking of the Engine Starting System of the F-16.
- Order, track, and process supply parts for aircraft and support equipment repair.
- Order, maintain, and properly dispose of HAZMAT materials to include; oils, grease, and sealants.
- Series: 8852 - Grade: 11
- Hours per week: 40
F-16 Aircraft Maintenance Craftsman
United States Air Force
Ramstein AB, RP, Germany
- Performed scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, troubleshooting, operational checks, engine runs, and inspections on assigned F-16 fighter aircraft.
- Maintained historical and current aircraft records.
- Supervised specialized maintenance on assigned aircraft.
- Order, track, and process supply parts for aircraft and support equipment repair.
- Order, maintain, and properly dispose of HAZMAT materials to include; oils, grease, and sealants.
- Hours per week: 50
QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST
DCMA West (P8)
Delta Junction, AK
07.2025 - 07.2026
- Serves as the Contract Management Office (CMO) focal point providing senior technical assistance and guidance to the operations Group team members regarding complex problems in the quality control area.
- Provides technical interpretation and implementation of procedures on applicable requirements.
- Determines the need for and develops procedural guidelines.
- Investigates the need for and feasibility of changes to establish procedures and devises revisions to alleviate problem areas.
- Assesses and reports adherence to strategies/procedures and recommends adjustments or independently implements improvements.
- Determines the impact on current and/or future quality function operations and plans/prepares necessary implementing directives.
- Provides information and on-the-job training for team quality assurance personnel including refresher courses, new directives and policy, new/changed databases and lessons learned.
- Series: 1910 - Grade: GS12
- Hours per week: 40
Quality Assurance Specialist
DCMA AIMO F-16 FMS Production
Greenville, SC
10.2018 - 06.2025
- Serves as a member of a multi-functional, technical team as a resident QAS, Quality Assurance Specialist, providing surveillance on F-16 Block 70 Production and F-16 Depot level repair on block 30's, 40's, and 50's, at Lockheed Martin Greenville, South Carolina.
- Perform pre-award duties independently or as an Integrated Product/Process Team (IPT) when requested by customers and accepts products and services for the U.S. Government.
- Reviews contracts and technical data packages to identify the specification requirements which the contractor's processes must meet.
- Identifies differences between contract technical requirements and current contractor processes.
- Establishes a requirement baseline for the processes performed by the contractors.
- Establishes and maintains communications with contractor's top management, including applicable functional managers such as production, engineering, and QA personnel early in the contracting cycle to ensure understanding exists for acceptable quality evidence for performance of such things as purchased materials and vendor controls, shipment, and key process proofing/measurement and analysis.
- Establishes and maintains a communications channel with the Contracting Office and Program Management Office as necessary.
- Notifies contracting offices and specifies preparing activities of deficient contract and technical requirements.
- Reviews and ensures flow-down of contract requirements to the contractor's inspection system and/or quality management system to validate that the contractor has the process for properly extracting and translating these requirements into the appropriate inspection, test, engineering, production, manufacturing, packing/marking, shipping, purchasing, and receiving functions.
- Reviews and ensures equipment, material, people, environment, methods, and other inputs to new/changed production/manufacturing process and associated process controls to assure that the contractual technical requirements are met for new/modified items or for products transitioning from design to production.
- Assesses the contractor's purchased material/vendor QA items for aircraft and support equipment repair.
- Order, maintain, and properly dispose of HAZMAT materials to include; oils, grease, and sealants.
- Reviews contractor's make or buy decisions for new contracts for new items.
- Identifies procured items/services which are complex, critical, or have bad quality histories.
- Reviews/analyzes contractor/vendor QA data and adjusts receiving process/product audits accordingly.
- Selectively requests Government QA at subcontractor level to verify adequacy of prime contractor controls, when necessary.
- Determines when alternative procedures are appropriate or uses as directed (e.g., Alternative Release Procedures, Certificate of Conformance).
- Quality Assurance risk management and assessment.
- Designs, plans, and implements an effective risk management program to ensure that all threats to the successful delivery of the contract are addressed and mitigated in the Government's best interests.
- Series: 1910 - Grade: 11
- Hours per week: 40
Education
F-16 Maintainer
United States Air Force
Sheppard AFB, TXSkills
- Detail-oriented
- Quality assurance
- Analytical thinking
- Problem-solving skills
- F-16 Dedicated Crew Chief
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of 12 staff members.
Certification
- NDTU111 Magnetic Particle- October 2019
- NDTU129 Digital Radiography- August 2018
- CMQ 231 Data Collection & Analysis
- CMQ 220 Root Cause Analysis
- ASQ100(REV D)/ISO 9001: 2015 Quality System Auditor Training- August 2017
- NDTU112 Radiography-July 2017
- NDTU113 Liquid Penetrant- June 2017
- CMQ142 Basic Measuring-Mar 2016
- CMQ230 Quality Control Graphics and Charting-Mar 2016
- CMQ242 Measuring Techniques-Aug 2016
- CMQ101 Government Contract Quality Assurance Fundamentals-Aug 2016
- CMQ100 Quality Assurance Basics-Feb 2016
- QUAL109 Fundamentals of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing with Print Reading-July 2016
- F-16 Maintenance Craftsman Course February 2002
Timeline
QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST
DCMA West (P8)
07.2025 - 07.2026
Quality Assurance Specialist
DCMA AIMO F-16 FMS Production
10.2018 - 06.2025
F-16 Aircraft Maintenance Craftsman
United States Air Force
F-16 Aircraft Maintenance Craftsman
United States Air Force
Quality Assurance Specialist
DCMA Aircraft Propulsion Operations GE Engines
F-16 Maintainer
United States Air Force
Additional information
Additional Skills:
- - Able to utilize blueprints, diagrams, and technical orders to validate specifications and assembly build-up.
- - Utilize dial indicators, preset micrometers, scales, fixtures, and borescopes to evaluate aircraft/part serviceability.
- - Work with the customer to present validated work for their approval and final buy-off.
- - Review documents for accuracy and completeness.
- - Generate discrepancy reports for identified flaws, internal defects and incorrect work.
- - 16 plus years as an F-16 Crew Chief in the US Air Force and US Air Force Reserves.
- - More than 7 years as a Quality Assurance Specialist for DCMA working both F-16 Block 70 Production at LM Greenville, SC.
- - Over 10 years' experience working for DCMA as both Quality Assurance and an Industrial Specialist
- - Proficient at Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Solumina, and Shop Floor Manager. Experienced with APRISO/QUADS.
- - Experienced with Root Cause Analysis and CARS/iCARS.
- - Over 35 years' experience with both FOD and Tool Control both with DCMA and the Air Force.
- - 35 Plus years with technical writing discrepancies that require disposition.
- - Possess an ACTIVE Secret Clearance
- - Over 35 years of experience with precision measuring equipment.