Hardware Quality Assurance Manager

About the role

The HQA Manager is a highly skilled professional who leads and directs hardware testing and validation activities. This hands‑on manager ensures testing and validation projects replicate potential in‑field exposure within required time frames while maintaining the highest quality standards. The role works with a cross‑functional team to test and validate past, current, and future industrial safety products and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute processes and procedures for testing component and system level specifications and requirements.
• Define and execute processes and procedures for testing to comply with agency approvals (UL, CSA, ATEX, IEC, MSHA, etc.).
• Lead team to troubleshoot new or legacy products with a data‑driven approach.
• Lead team to resolve complex product issues through detailed analysis, rapid experimentation, test planning, and novel idea generation.
• Ensure testing meets expected customer use cases for reliability and serviceability throughout the product’s expected life span.
• Drive innovation in testing to provide accelerated life‑testing that reflects field conditions.
• Create, update, and maintain HQA process and procedural documentation.
• Enforce and mature corporate testing and validation processes.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to HQA technicians.
• Travel to customer locations to resolve issues, collect Voice of Customer, and visit suppliers (travel less than 10%).
• Manage processes and teams to develop detailed testing plans and protocols throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Support sustaining, VAVE, and quality improvement of legacy products.
• Maintain testing process documentation and ensure properly tested products are released to production.

Required Qualifications

• Associate’s degree from an accredited engineering college or university, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in hardware life‑cycle testing and validation.
• Progressive experience managing testing and validation processes.
• Progressive experience using equipment and knowledge to troubleshoot problems.
• Experience establishing best practices for testing.
• Experience in electronics packaging testing.
• Familiarity with typical laboratory equipment such as thermal chambers, gas detection equipment, and oscilloscopes.
• Proficiency in basic computer software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Ability to work independently and in cross‑functional teams.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading a team of technicians.
• Understanding of accelerated testing processes.
• Proficiency with Windchill PLM, Oracle EBS, JAMA, and JIRA.
• Understanding of simulation analysis tools and techniques.
• Experience in statistical analysis.
• Experience in project management.
• Understanding of Stage‑Gate development process.

Pay

Salary range (local currency): 114,100.00 – 190,500.00.

Eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package.

Company Overview

Industrial Scientific designs and manufactures gas detection products and solutions that protect workers from hazardous conditions worldwide. Since 1985, the company has pioneered technologies such as the first 3‑gas detector, 6‑gas detector, wireless gas detector, and the first gas detector flown on a NASA space shuttle. The organization continues to innovate hardware and software to equip connected workers of the future, advancing toward the vision of ending death on the job by 2050.

Industrial Scientific is part of Fortive Corporation, a global industrial‑technology innovator with a startup spirit. Fortive’s essential technologies make the world safer and more productive across workplace safety, built environments, healthcare, and predictive maintenance. The company values diversity, inclusion, and continuous learning, employing a workforce of over 10,000 people.