Quality Engineer

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Quality Engineer to support product development, manufacturing, and supplier quality initiatives while driving continuous improvement efforts throughout the organization. This position plays a key role in ensuring products meet customer, regulatory, and internal quality requirements.

Position Overview

The Quality Engineer develops, implements, and maintains quality systems, processes, and controls to ensure products meet customer expectations and regulatory requirements. This role collaborates closely with engineering, manufacturing, laboratory, and supplier quality teams to establish inspection methods, testing procedures, acceptance criteria, and risk mitigation strategies. Responsibilities include designing and analyzing inspection processes, conducting quality audits and assessments, performing statistical analyses, supporting corrective actions, ensuring compliance with quality standards, and driving operational excellence through continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the CAPA Chairperson, leading root cause investigations and corrective/preventive action activities to eliminate recurring nonconformances.
• Act as the lead Quality Engineer for a new vehicle product line.
• Partner with design engineering teams to ensure quality requirements are incorporated early in the product development lifecycle.
• Identify, document, and resolve product, process, and quality system issues.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure production routings contain proper quality controls and inspection requirements.
• Support supplier audits and assessments to verify compliance, drive standardization, eliminate waste, and promote continuous improvement.
• Travel to supplier and subcontractor locations as needed to clarify quality requirements, conduct quality risk assessments, and resolve supplier quality issues.
• Assist in evaluating supplier technical concerns and ensuring continuity of supply that meets technical and quality requirements.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and program teams to maintain a robust quality management program.
• Monitor, communicate, and improve key quality performance metrics and KPIs.
• Establish and execute short- and long-term product quality goals.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives utilizing Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, process capability studies, value stream mapping, and process analyses.
• Support new product introductions, design updates, disposition activities, and nonconforming material processes.

Skills

• Supplier quality
• CAPA
• Quality engineering
• AS9100
• Root cause analysis
• Quality management system
• NPI
• Continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a government clearance.
• Preference for experience in ISO 9000 or AS9100 manufacturing environment.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Plymouth, MA.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $43.26 - $55.28/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available)
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Schedule

This is a fully onsite position in Plymouth, MA.

About the Company

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.