Quality Engineer
About The Position
The Quality Engineer supports successful new product launches by driving manufacturing quality readiness, risk visibility, issue management, and cross-site alignment throughout the new product development lifecycle. The role collaborates with Design Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Supplier Quality, Operations, and global factory teams to identify manufacturing risks early, support readiness reviews, and help ensure quality concerns are documented, communicated, and resolved. The engineer works with increasing independence. The Quality Engineer serves as a quality liaison between domestic new product development teams and global manufacturing organizations. The position helps ensure supplier readiness, process controls, fixture readiness, documentation robustness, and production readiness activities are completed with appropriate visibility and alignment. It offers opportunities to influence new product development, improve launch quality performance, and drive continuous improvement across global manufacturing operations. Consistent global, onsite engagement is critical to success.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Quality, or Manufacturing, or equivalent education and experience.
- 1–3 years of experience in quality, manufacturing, reliability, operations, supplier quality, or related engineering disciplines.
- Understanding of quality systems, risk management tools, process controls, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
- Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple functions and global teams.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 30%.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with PFMEA, Control Plans, Work Instructions, Process Audits, and Corrective Action systems.
- Experience with quality, manufacturing, or data-analysis tools.
Responsibilities
- Support creation, maintenance, and communication of NPD project quality readiness status, risks, issues, and closure plans.
- Maintain project Quality Readiness tracking and ensure manufacturing quality risks are documented and communicated throughout the project lifecycle.
- Participate in supplier risk reviews, manufacturing risk reviews, PFMEA reviews, control plan reviews, and production readiness activities.
- Support development and alignment of production test plans, fixture readiness plans, process controls, and manufacturing quality documentation.
- Coordinate quality readiness activities between domestic teams and global factory Advanced Quality Engineering, SQE, AME, and Operations organizations.
- Track manufacturing, process, supplier, and quality issues identified during builds and support closure activities.
- Participate in Engineering Builds, Qualification Builds, and Production Readiness reviews and audits.
- Assist with execution and documentation of process audits, quality audits, and production readiness assessments.
- Support cross-site communication of lessons learned, process updates, PFMEA updates, PCP updates, and open quality concerns.
- Prepare project quality summaries, dashboards, status reports, and milestone review content for leadership and project teams.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement, quality system enhancements, and manufacturing risk reduction.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
