1st Shift Quality Engineer

About the Role

At our ADFED LLC manufacturing site, quality is more than a requirement. It is a mission-critical commitment that ensures the reliability and safety of products used in some of the world's most demanding environments. We're seeking a 1st Shift Quality Engineer to be a key driver of operational excellence, partnering directly with manufacturing teams to reduce defects, solve complex technical challenges, and continuously improve processes that support high-reliability products. This is an opportunity to make a visible impact on the factory floor, lead quality initiatives, influence production outcomes, and help maintain the highest standards of compliance, customer satisfaction, and product performance. If you thrive in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and enjoy using data, root cause analysis, and problem-solving tools to drive measurable results, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Provides Quality Group metrics to senior staff at regular intervals.
• Works closely with design and manufacturing groups to define process improvements and ensures compliance to manufacturing processes and new product introduction (NPI).
• Works cross-functionally on documentation to improve procedures and workflows via process audits.
• Works with contracts and program management to review Quality clauses during RFQs and new purchase orders.
• Provides support and hosts customer audits. The candidate will also support supplier audits and ISO certification audits.
• Drive quality improvement not limited to:
  • Zero Defect Philosophy
  • Apply risk mitigation and FMEA tools to increase yields
  • Improve Supplier KPIs
  • Develop new ideas for metrics and implement through a quality dashboard
• Designs and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and/or production equipment.
• Works root cause corrective actions and performs verification to prevent recurrence.
• Support MRB/TRB/Change requests on a weekly basis as needed.

Qualifications

• Must be a US Citizen
• Master's degree in engineering or Bachelor's degree in engineering and equivalent experience in electronics manufacturing environment (2+ years)
• Proven leadership and effective oral communication skills
• An understanding of root cause corrective action (RCCA)
• Understanding of Quality Management Systems: ISO9001, AS9100, and other related systems
• Able to deal with multiple issues simultaneously and have the awareness of setting priorities.
• Must have good Engineering skills regarding machining, tolerancing, reading source control drawings and general electrical engineering skills.

Pay & Benefits

• The expected wage range for a new hire into this position is $75,200 to $103,400. Actual wage offered may vary depending on work location, experience, education, training, external market data, internal pay equity, or other bona fide factors.
• This position qualifies for a discretionary performance-based bonus which is based on personal and company factors.
• This position includes medical, vision and dental coverage, 401k, paid vacation, holidays, and sick time, and other benefits.