Senior Quality Engineer - Expanded Beam Optics

3M•Maplewood, MN

5d•$124,127 - $151,710•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Quality Engineer will own EBO (Expanded Beam Optics) product quality governance & manufacturing quality performance, ensuring quality requirements, control plans, risk registers, defect definitions, metrics, and lessons learned remain current and aligned across manufacturing locations, and customer regions. This role will lead quality issue resolution, drive continuous improvement for the manufacturing site, and support global customer issues. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by: Lead/support manufacturing quality improvement, root cause analysis and corrective actions. Maintain the EBO (Expanded Beam Optics) product quality baseline, including critical-to-quality characteristics, known risks, acceptance criteria, and quality requirements. Govern global product-level control plans, inspection expectations, and defect classification standards. Maintain the EBO product quality risk register across customer, manufacturing, metrology, application, and design risks. Lead periodic product quality reviews using data from customers, manufacturing locations, and failure analysis. Review product, process, tooling, test method, material, and site changes for quality impact. Support global quality triage when Menomonie production is involved. Ensure lessons learned from customer issues, internal defects, site qualification, and failure analysis are incorporated into controls and improvement plans. Standardize quality dashboards, defect library, and product quality reporting. Partner with engineering, manufacturing, customer quality, site quality, and metrology teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, and/or manufacturing (completed and verified prior to start)
Three (3) years of experience in product and manufacturing quality, including advanced quality planning, process controls, customer issue resolution, manufacturing defect investigation, and product design risk management in a private, public, government, or military environment.
Three (3) years of experience leading or supporting quality improvement and risk management activities, including PFMEA, control plans, change impact assessments, root cause analysis, corrective actions, SPC, and process capability in a private, public, government, or military environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with optical products, connectors, electronics, precision assembly, or high-reliability manufacturing.
Experience with product transfers or cross-site process alignment.
Experience supporting global products manufactured across multiple sites.
Experience with product lifecycle quality, design change review, process change review, or product transfer.
Strong cross-functional leadership
Proficient in Mandarin

Responsibilities

Lead/support manufacturing quality improvement, root cause analysis and corrective actions.
Maintain the EBO (Expanded Beam Optics) product quality baseline, including critical-to-quality characteristics, known risks, acceptance criteria, and quality requirements.
Govern global product-level control plans, inspection expectations, and defect classification standards.
Maintain the EBO product quality risk register across customer, manufacturing, metrology, application, and design risks.
Lead periodic product quality reviews using data from customers, manufacturing locations, and failure analysis.
Review product, process, tooling, test method, material, and site changes for quality impact.
Support global quality triage when Menomonie production is involved.
Ensure lessons learned from customer issues, internal defects, site qualification, and failure analysis are incorporated into controls and improvement plans.
Standardize quality dashboards, defect library, and product quality reporting.
Partner with engineering, manufacturing, customer quality, site quality, and metrology teams.