Senior Quality Engineer

Entegris•Chaska, MN

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Entegris is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer for its Advanced Purity Solutions Quality organization at the 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 role is a key Quality partner to Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, and other cross-functional teams, providing hands-on engineering support for assigned products and processes while managing risk, leading structured problem solving, and advancing corrective action and continuous improvement. The engineer will support investigations of manufacturing and customer quality issues from containment through root-cause analysis, corrective action, effectiveness verification, and closure. The role also supports product disposition, risk assessments, audits, change management, quality documentation, new product introductions, and process validation and qualification. Using manufacturing and quality data and tools such as FMEA, SPC, capability analysis, Pareto analysis, MSA/Gage R&R, process mapping, and 8D methods, the engineer will identify trends, reduce defects, strengthen process controls, and improve customer and manufacturing performance. The position includes serving as a technical Quality resource and mentoring less-experienced engineers. The Chaska site supports Entegris’ Fluid Handling business and multiple sites across the company. The Quality organization is working to strengthen product and process controls, SPC maturity, FMEA and control-plan integrity, and defect trending. This role offers the opportunity to help build more capable, preventive, data-driven quality processes while addressing current manufacturing and customer issues.

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, structured problem-solving, and technical judgment skills, including risk-based decision making using data.
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.
Effective written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical quality issues to different audiences.
Strong cross-functional collaboration and ability to influence without relying solely on formal authority.
Proactive approach to preventing defects and improving processes.
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 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, material review activities, product disposition, and risk assessments with relevant cross-functional teams.
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, including risk assessment, manufacturing change reviews, validation and qualification activities, and quality documentation.
Develop, review, and maintain inspection methods, control plans, risk assessments, specifications, and other process-control documentation.
Support new product introduction 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.