Quality Engineer

About the role

The Quality Engineer supports product, process, and supplier quality through qualification, inspection, validation, corrective action, and continuous improvement activities. The role applies quality tools and data-driven problem solving to improve processes, prevent defects, and ensure compliance with customer and quality system requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide value to both internal and external customers by being a reliable, trusted, high-integrity, and well‑rounded professional.
• Through clear communication, consistent performance, and timely execution, build confidence and demonstrate that others can depend on you.
• Foster a workplace where employees and customers feel supported, valued, and confident that you have their best interests in mind.
• Identify and review Part Qualification documents such as First Article Inspection, Gage R&R, Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis, capability study, control plan, process validation, etc.
• Develop and implement quality standards across assigned product lines.
• Monitor, analyze, report, and communicate quality metrics and performance.
• Inspect and test materials, equipment, processes, and products to ensure quality specifications are met.
• Provide incoming, in‑process, and final inspection support.
• Perform quality inspection, including use of measurement tools and sampling plans.
• Prepare quality reports.
• Assist with continual improvement activities to enhance the quality system, such as 5S, Kaizen lean methods, etc.
• Foster and support a growing ISO 9001:2015 quality system built on continuous improvement to ensure no internal defects ship to customers.
• Analyze failure, corrective, and preventive action to respond to customer complaints.
• Lead teams through problem identification, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Apply quality tools such as 8D, 5‑Why, Fishbone diagrams, and process mapping.
• Investigate and troubleshoot product, process, or production issues.
• Conduct supplier audits if needed (
• Perform supplier development, validation, and supplier quality activities.
• Ensure timely resolution of supplier failure, corrective actions, and preventive actions.
• Develop requirements for quality inspection of incoming material from suppliers.
• Facilitate the completion of Supplier Corrective Action Requests and Vendor Quality Notices from suppliers.
• Monitor outside service contractor’s capabilities.
• Participate in engineering design reviews and provide inputs.
• Conduct quality training programs for production personnel.
• Perform gap analysis to update procedures and documentation.
• Work with calibration programs.
• Conduct internal and supplier audits within an ISO‑9001 environment, including closing out audit findings, creating audit finding reports, and determining proper corrective and preventive actions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Degree in quality, industrial, or mechanical engineering; ASQ certification preferred; 2+ years of