Aerospace Transparencies - Senior Quality Engineer
About The Position
This role is for a Senior Quality Engineer within Aerospace Transparencies, part of the PPG team. The position is based fully onsite in Huntsville, AL. The Senior Quality Engineer will be a senior technical contributor responsible for preventive quality engineering, systemic problem solving, and customer quality execution across the product lifecycle. This role involves leading complex quality investigations, driving robust corrective actions, and partnering cross-functionally to ensure manufacturing and support processes are capable, compliant, and continually improving. The engineer will operate with significant autonomy and be accountable for technical quality leadership, customer issue resolution, and systemic improvement, with a focus on root cause elimination, data-driven decision-making, and sustained process capability rather than inspection or administrative compliance. The position reports to the Quality Manager.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience required.
- Eight (8) or more years of aerospace or similar environmental quality engineering experience required.
- Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply.
Nice To Haves
- Six Sigma, CQE, or similar certifications are preferred.
Responsibilities
- Serves as the primary quality engineering lead for customer quality issues, complaints, and audits.
- Leads cross-functional root cause investigations and drives containment, corrective, and preventive actions using structured methodologies (e.g., 8D).
- Ensures corrective actions address true systemic and process causes, verify effectiveness, and embeds lessons learned into standard work.
- Applies advanced quality tools (SPC, FMEA, Control Plans, DOE, MSA) and analyzes quality data to identify trends and risks.
- Partners across functions implement sustainable process improvements and represent quality requirements in design, change, and failure reviews.
- Develop dashboards, KPIs, and data-driven insights to support leadership decision-making and customer communication.
- Acts as a senior technical influencer, mentoring quality engineers and driving outcomes through expertise rather than authority.
Benefits
- Health
- Dental
- Life
- Retirement Plan
- Paid Vacation & Holidays
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Disability/Leave
- other Voluntary benefit offerings
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
