Advanced Manufacturing & Quality Engineer

About the role

The Advanced Manufacturing & Quality Engineer plays a crucial role in ensuring Hydro Flask products meet customer expectations for safety, durability, and performance. This position supports both New Product Introduction (NPI) and sustaining production across a global supplier base.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and sustain quality systems to ensure Hydro Flask products meet customer expectations for safety, durability, and performance.
• Partner with Design, Product Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and suppliers to embed manufacturing quality from concept through launch.
• Support Technical Reviews, Manufacturing Builds, and Pilot Builds.
• Define and validate Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) characteristics and provide early-stage DFX feedback.
• Support quality and manufacturing planning activities, including development of DFMEAs, PFMEAs, control plans, inspection standards, and robust measurement systems.
• Lead and manage PPAP submissions, ensuring supplier compliance, process capability validation, and on-time documentation delivery.
• Collaborate with overseas engineering teams and suppliers to review, approve, track, and maintain PPAP documentation across NPI and sustaining products.
• Develop and maintain a PPAP tracker to manage maturity levels across products and factories; elevate legacy programs to required PPAP standards.
• Identify gaps in current AQME systems and implement improvements to drive consistency, efficiency, and enforceability.
• Drive continuous improvement using supplier feedback to address recurring issues and implement process enhancements that improve manufacturability, cost, quality, and throughput.
• Support production issues as needed, providing structured problem-solving and corrective actions.
• Support validation and qualification of new or additional toolsets, ensuring dimensional, capability, and performance alignment with existing tooling.
• Identify manufacturing improvement opportunities related to cycle time, quality, throughput, automation, and NRE investments.
• Own manufacturing process specifications and ensure accurate cross-functional communication and rollout of updates across all suppliers and facilities.
• Develop new process specifications and coordinate testing activities as required.
• Drive ECR/ECO/ECN execution for manufacturing and process changes, including alignment, implementation planning, documentation, and rollout.
• Provide feedback to continuously improve Engineering Change mechanisms and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Quality Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in manufacturing or quality engineering for high-volume consumer products.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting manufacturing or product defects.
• Experience working with international, cross-functional teams.
• Experience building or scaling manufacturing and quality systems (start-up experience a plus).
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing and process engineering principles.
• Solid understanding of quality management systems and APQP/PPAP methodologies.
• Experience with SPC, MSA, capability studies, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, and continuous improvement tools.
• Proven ability to diagnose issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement effective corrective actions.
• Demonstrated success improving manufacturing processes to enhance quality and reduce cost.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management from development through end of life.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional and global teams.
• Hands-on experience working directly with international suppliers (China and Southeast Asia a plus).
• Experience partnering with Design Engineering and Product Development to influence DFX decisions.
• Authorization to work full-time in the United States.

Skills

• Strong knowledge of manufacturing and process engineering principles.
• Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous environment while managing multiple projects and prioritizing effectively.
• Solid understanding of quality management systems and APQP/PPAP methodologies.
• Experience with SPC, MSA, capability studies, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, and continuous improvement tools.
• Proven ability to diagnose issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement effective corrective actions.
• Demonstrated success improving manufacturing processes to enhance quality and reduce cost.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management from development through end of life.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional and global teams.
• Experience building or scaling manufacturing and quality systems (start-up experience a plus).

Benefits

• Salary + Bonus
• Healthcare
• Dental
• Vision
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401(k) with company match
• Basic Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability (STD)
• Long Term Disability (LTD)
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Charitable (volunteer) Leave
• Education Assistance