Quality Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Manufacturing, Systems, Mechanical, or a related engineering discipline.
• 5–8+ years of Quality Engineering experience across hardware, electromechanical, or embedded-system products.
• Strong knowledge of verification and validation methodologies, statistical tools, and quality engineering principles.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001/13485, ISO/IEC 17025, AS9100D, or similar standards.
• Experience with DFMEA, PFMEA, MSA, GR&R, control plans, and structured problem solving.
• Experience in Lean, Kaizen, or Six Sigma (Green Belt or higher).
• Experience with PCBA processes, electronics manufacturing, or test-system development.
• Familiarity with PLM, ERP, MES, or digital quality systems.
• Familiarity with reliability engineering concepts and methods, including Weibull analysis and FRACAS.
• Hands-on experience with failure analysis and reliability concepts.
• Proficiency with data-analysis tools such as Minitab, Power BI, or similar.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer or equivalent.
• Ability to influence without authority and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• High sense of ownership and urgency, with a continuous-improvement mindset.

Nice To Haves

• Internal auditor or lead auditor certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead development, review, and execution of product lifecycle quality plans from concept through launch.
• Own and drive Design for Quality, DFMEA, and design-control deliverables, ensuring traceability from requirements to verification and validation.
• Champion lifecycle risk management, own control plans, and maintain risk files.
• Define acceptance criteria, test strategies, measurement system analyses (MSA/GR&R), and Critical-to-Quality parameters.
• Partner with Design Engineering, Product Management, and Operations on design specifications, manufacturability, reliability, and risk.
• Plan and execute APQP or equivalent, including PFMEA, control plans, PPAP, process capability analysis, rolled throughput yield, and production-readiness assessments.
• Validate production test systems, calibration methods, and in-process inspection strategies.
• Support smooth transition from development to production through cross-functional reviews and readiness gates.
• Track and own launch quality metrics, including DPPM, escapes, and early-life warranty failures.
• Monitor product health—including returns, complaints, yields, warranty, and reliability—and own problem solving to drive continual improvement.
• Identify, measure, monitor, and reduce product rework and scrap contributing to Cost of Poor Quality.
• Lead root-cause investigations using 8D, 5-Whys, Ishikawa, and statistical methods.
• Lead stop-ship activities, containment, investigations, communications, and other quality-related activities.
• Optimize in-process and end-of-line inspection and testing strategies and reduce variation.
• Support change-control evaluations for engineering changes, process changes, and component changes to ensure continued product quality.
• Collaborate with Service and Customer Support on customer issues, containment, corrective actions, and communication.
• Lead cross-functional quality reviews and drive consensus on quality-critical decisions.
• Communicate risks, issues, and performance trends to leadership using clear, data-driven insights.
• Serve as lead auditor for ISO 9001:2015 by planning, executing, and reporting internal audits while supporting external audits.
• Ensure quality procedures, work instructions, and records meet QMS requirements.
• Support supplier and customer audits, including verification of the effectiveness of nonconformity closure.
• Promote quality, data integrity, and continual improvement using the Fortive Business System.