Product Quality Engineer - Artificial Lift

ChampionX•Houston, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Disclaimer: SLB completed the acquisition of ChampionX on July 16, 2025. If selected for this position, your employment will begin with ChampionX and will transition to SLB as part of the planned integration. We are looking for a Product Quality Engineer to support the Smarten Controllers for the Artificial Lift Automation Business Unit located in Houston, TX. This is your opportunity to join a global technology company, driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. What's In It For You: The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best Thrive in a company that values sustainability, drives a safety-focused culture, and empowers through continuous improvement

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Quality Engineering, or related technical discipline.
5 years of relevant experience in automation and control systems engineering within a manufacturing, operations, product development, sustaining engineering, or project engineering environment.
3 years of relevant work experience required with artificial lift controls equipment (Controllers, RTUs, PLCs).
VFD experience is required including commissioning, troubleshooting, and application support.
Good understanding of quality methodologies, tools, and process; preferred experience writing comprehensive test plans and cases.
Excellent project management skills: ability to drive projects to a successful completion.
Strong computer skills, including advanced excel skills

Nice To Haves

Quality Professional Certification
Experience leading and maintaining an ISO-9001: 2015 certification
Green Belt or Black Belt certification
Application experience with artificial lift controllers, including rod pump, and progressing cavity pump, and plunger/gas lift applications
Knowledge of: Programmable logic controllers (PLC) and Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) Ladder or text-based Logic programming and diagrams Serial & TCP communications networks. Industrial communication protocols (Modbus, Ethernet/IP, etc.). Analog and digital circuitry

Responsibilities

Implement and maintain effective Quality management systems (QMS) ensuring that quality standards are defined and followed by internal personnel and external suppliers / vendors.
Develop, apply and maintain quality systems compliant to ISO-9001:2015 and UL508A.
Lead and support quality improvement initiatives, ensuring execution to plan, early identification of risks, timely corrective actions, and engagement of appropriate stakeholders.
Provide quality engineering expertise throughout the product lifecycle, including product development, validation, commercialization, third-party manufacturing, sustaining engineering and customer support.
Acts as a liaison between product development, production and services to establish quality standards and resolve quality issues.
Audits and qualify external vendors to ensure compliance with quality and internal business requirements.
Define, track, analyze, and report key quality metrics (KPIs); drive corrective and preventive actions based on data trends
Work with development team to define acceptance criteria, validation protocols, and test cases.
Own process for regression/bench testing to ensure product is ready for full field testing of hardware and firmware.
Work with Product team and technical support/Field service team to ensure product is ready for deployment.
Execute quality standards, inspection processes, test methodology, quality plans, documents and reports.
Maintain and continuously improve Standard Work instructions, SOPs, and related quality documentation.
Lead root cause investigations and resolution of critical product quality issues, including field failures and non-conformances.
Partner with Product Development and Engineering to advocate and support product improvements on released products, successfully transfer new commercially released products into the group and share lessons learned to prevent future product issues.
Promote and foster a culture of continuous improvement culture within the Quality function.