Quality Engineer
About The Position
The Specialty Materials segment manufactures products that provide more than 150 material formulations for glass, glass ceramics and fluoride crystals to meet demand for unique customer needs. Consequently, this segment operates in a wide variety of commercial and industrial markets that include display optics and components, semiconductor optics components, aerospace and defense, astronomy, ophthalmic products, telecommunications components and cover glass that is optimized for portable display devices. Position Summary The Quality Engineer is a key technical contributor responsible for ensuring product quality, improving processes, and driving cost reduction through standardized, data-driven methodologies including PEX and DMAIC. A central element of this role is the day-to-day working partnership with process engineers across all manufacturing departments.
Requirements
- BS in Engineering, Manufacturing, Materials Science, or related field
- 3+ years in manufacturing quality or process engineering
- Proficiency with DMAIC, 8D, and 5-Why methodologies
Nice To Haves
- Lean / Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
- PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, MSA, and Cp/Cpk experience
- ASQ CQE or CQA preferred
Responsibilities
- Ensure product quality and compliance to customer, contractual, and internal requirements
- Ensure process/documentation changes meet quality, compliance, and productivity targets
- Lead investigations using PEX methodology and DMAIC framework
- Apply 8D, 5-Why, Fishbone, Kepner-Tregoe, and statistical analysis tools
- Engage process engineers in joint investigations
- Serve as the primary quality partner to process engineers across all departments
- Collaborate with process engineers to identify, prioritize, and resolve internal quality issues
- Own full lifecycle of customer complaint investigations through verified closure
- Drive transition from inspection-based quality toward upstream defect prevention
- Lead defect and scrap reduction projects
- Identify training gaps and develop targeted plans
- Develop dashboards for complaint trends, CAPA performance, yield, and COPQ
Benefits
- Company-wide bonuses
- Long-term incentives
- 100% company-paid pension benefit
- Matching contributions to 401(k) savings plan
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Family building support
- Fitness
- Company-paid life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Disease management programs
- Paid time off
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Recognition program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
