Sr. Quality Engineer

Hyve Solutions•Carson City, NV

About The Position

The Senior Quality Engineer provides advanced quality engineering leadership within a PCBA manufacturing environment. This role leads complex investigations, systemic corrective actions, customer requirement translation, manufacturing process quality improvement, audit readiness support, and Quality Engineer mentorship. The Senior Quality Engineer serves as a systems-level quality leader and technical resource for Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, Materials, Program Management, customers, and site leadership.

Requirements

5+ years of Quality Engineering experience in manufacturing.
Strong knowledge of ISO 9001, corrective action systems, manufacturing process controls, and customer requirement implementation.
Strong communication, technical judgment, cross-functional influence, and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related technical field preferred.
3+ years of electronics, PCBA, or related technical manufacturing experience preferred.
Experience with IPC-A-610, ISO 14001, SMT, AOI, AXI, inspection, test, and rework processes preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead complex quality investigations involving customer escapes, recurring defects, systemic process failures, audit findings, and major nonconformances.
Drive containment, root cause analysis, corrective action, preventive action, effectiveness verification, and sustainment for significant quality issues.
Own the review, interpretation, communication, and implementation strategy for customer-specific quality requirements.
Translate customer requirements into operational controls across manufacturing, inspection, documentation, labeling, traceability, training, and quality records.
Identify gaps between customer requirements and site execution and drive cross-functional closure before they result in defects, escapes, or audit findings.
Provide technical quality engineering support for manufacturing processes, inspection criteria, process controls, corrective action strategy, and systemic risk reduction.
Mentor QE I and QE II team members in investigations, customer requirement interpretation, data analysis, process control, and corrective action discipline.
Support internal audits, process audits, customer audits, registrar audits, compliance assessments, management review inputs, and quality improvement planning.
Lead improvement projects tied to FPY, DPPM, scrap, rework, fallout, cost of poor quality, customer escapes, and audit readiness.
Perform other duties as assigned in support of Quality department objectives, customer requirements, production support, and QMS/EMS compliance.