Senior Quality Engineer

Entegris•Chaska, MN

10d•$91,000 - $114,000•Onsite

About The Position

Entegris is hiring a Senior Quality Engineer for its Advanced Purity Solutions Quality organization at its Chaska, Minnesota manufacturing facility. The site produces high-purity fluid handling products and components using processes that include injection molding, extrusion, machining, blow molding, rotational molding, compression molding, and assembly. The Senior Quality Engineer serves as a key Quality partner to Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, and other cross-functional teams. The role provides hands-on quality engineering support for assigned products and manufacturing processes; leads structured problem solving; manages product and process risk; drives corrective action and continuous improvement; and helps strengthen site quality systems and performance. The position is intended for an experienced engineer who is comfortable working close to manufacturing and helping shift the organization from reactive problem solving toward proactive quality improvement. Chaska is a complex manufacturing site serving Entegris' Fluid Handling business and supporting multiple sites. The Quality organization is working to improve product and process controls, SPC maturity, FMEA and control-plan integrity, and defect trending. The Senior Quality Engineer will help address current manufacturing and customer issues while building more capable, preventive, data-driven quality processes.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline.
Approximately 5 or more years of relevant Quality Engineering or closely related manufacturing engineering experience.
Experience in a manufacturing environment.
Demonstrated experience with root-cause analysis, corrective action, risk assessment, and structured problem solving.
Experience applying core quality tools such as FMEA, SPC, MSA/Gage R&R, control plans, process capability, and statistical analysis.
Experience working with cross-functional manufacturing and engineering teams.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
Ability to independently lead complex quality investigations from initial containment through sustainable corrective action.
Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
Comfort working directly on the manufacturing floor and collaborating with operators, technicians, engineers, and leadership.
Ability to balance urgent production and customer needs with longer-term systemic improvements.
Strong technical judgment and ability to make risk-based decisions using data.
Effective written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical quality issues to different audiences.
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and ability to influence without relying solely on formal authority.
Proactive mindset focused on defect prevention and process improvement.
Ability to manage several priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience in high-purity, semiconductor, medical device, aerospace, automotive, or another technically demanding manufacturing environment.
Experience with ISO 9001 or a comparable regulated quality-management system.
Experience with customer complaints, 8D methodology, CAPA, MRB, and change control.
Working knowledge of SAP, EtQ or another electronic QMS, Minitab, and Camline or comparable SPC/data-analysis systems.
Experience supporting injection molding, extrusion, machining, assembly, or other polymer/plastics manufacturing processes.
Lean or Six Sigma certification and demonstrated application of continuous-improvement methodologies.
Experience supporting customer or third-party audits.
Experience with validation and qualification activities and new-product introduction.

Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day Quality Engineering support for assigned Chaska products, manufacturing areas, and value streams.
Lead and support investigations of internal and customer quality issues, including containment, root-cause analysis, corrective action, effectiveness verification, and closure.
Coordinate and support Quality Notifications (QNs), material review activities, product disposition, and risk assessments in collaboration with Operations, Customer Service, Materials, Tooling, and other functions.
Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering to identify recurring defects and process variation and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
Apply structured problem-solving and statistical methods, including FMEA, SPC, capability analysis, Pareto analysis, MSA/Gage R&R, process mapping, and 8D/root-cause methodologies.
Support customer complaint investigations and develop technically sound, timely responses and corrective-action packages.
Participate in and support customer, internal, and quality-system audits.
Support change management activities, including risk assessment, manufacturing change reviews, validation and qualification activities, and quality documentation.
Develop, review, and maintain quality documentation, including inspection methods, control plans, risk assessments, specifications, and other process-control documentation.
Support new product introductions and product or process changes through FMEAs, control plans, measurement strategies, validation and qualification activities, and data analysis.
Use manufacturing and quality data to identify adverse trends and drive improvements in product quality, process capability, defect reduction, and customer performance.
Work with Operations and Engineering to strengthen process controls and prevent defects rather than relying exclusively on inspection or containment.
Participate in continuous-improvement activities and cross-functional projects that improve quality, delivery, cost, and manufacturing effectiveness.
Serve as a technical Quality resource for engineers, technicians, inspectors, manufacturing leaders, and operators.
Mentor less-experienced engineers and help build structured problem-solving capability across the organization.