Quality Engineer

At Winchester Interconnect, we foster a dynamic, inclusive environment that thrives on collaboration and continuous growth. We hire exceptional people, celebrate wins, empower employee growth, and provide opportunities to thrive. Winchester is where potential transforms into purpose, and every team member plays a vital role in shaping our shared success.

About the Role

The Quality Engineer has accountability and shared responsibility to ensure quality systems and processes are aligned and support the growth and improvement targets of the company. This role will support the Quality Manager and collaborate with engineering, operations, business development, and finance to achieve productivity, quality, cost, and profitability revenue growth targets.

You will drive technical investigations, conduct DOE, FMEA, process auditing, measurement system analysis, and use standard quality techniques to champion defect elimination and closed-loop process improvement. You will be involved in the validation of new products and process launches and provide input on product reliability and compliance to promote advanced product quality planning.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for advanced product quality planning, nonconforming material trend analysis, corrective action planning, and production process auditing; use findings to propose and assist in administering best practices across the organization.
• Assess customer, industry, and regulatory requirements, developing tailored quality plans to ensure compliance.
• Execute audit plans to ensure adherence to customer, industry, and regulatory standards.
• Drive a customer-centric, total quality culture; participate in NPI projects, internal auditing, FAIs, source inspections, RMAs, CARs, and general customer service as required.
• Champion the Winchester culture, fostering a strong organization.
• Collaborate across all levels of the organization, as well as with suppliers and customers, leading by example, holding people accountable, and using data to make informed decisions.
• Support and maintain quality systems to capture, monitor, and manage product and process quality, aligning with the company’s tactical and strategic business goals.
• Assist in developing and monitoring business process performance metrics/indicators, making recommendations and supporting process improvements.
• Participate and perform FAI, material review boards, and internal audits in collaboration with operations.
• Follow uniform processes for FAI/qualification of products and processes for both internal and external customers.
• Support the Quality Manager in addressing customer-related quality issues, including failure analysis and corrective actions, in conjunction with other functional areas.
• Maintain a robust corrective action process incorporating Six Sigma, design for manufacture, design for assembly, failure mode and effects analysis, MSA, DOE, reliability analysis, and lean manufacturing principles.
• Represent the product group during customer, supplier quality, ISO, and related audits.
• Identify, develop, and support processes and training programs as required by the Quality Manager.
• Ensure compliance with customer, industry, and regulatory standards, including export regulations.
• Drive continuous improvement, common processes, and company values to support growth and improvement targets.

Requirements

• BS degree required; Material Science engineers or similar preferred.
• 3-5 years of quality experience.
• Proficiency in quality, Six Sigma, and lean manufacturing techniques, including design for manufacturability, design for assembly, measurement system analysis, design of experiment, and failure mode and effects analysis in a design and manufacturing environment.
• Ability to direct quality resources to develop and implement test and inspection programs to meet customer, industry, and regulatory standards across the manufacturing site.
• Analytical thinker with demonstrated technical ability to perform root cause analysis, prepare and implement action plans, and lead technical improvement initiatives.
• Commitment to Winchester’s values of accountability, collaboration, and empowerment.
• Ability to compile and use data, databases, ERP systems, and spreadsheets to communicate and contribute to enterprise-wide initiatives and drive continuous improvement.
• Ability to measure components and assemblies specified to tight tolerance.
• Ability to measure process yields, report them, and drive improvement initiatives based on that data.
• Experience with process auditing preferred.

Skills

• Advanced product quality planning (APQP).
• Design of Experiments (DOE).
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Measurement System Analysis (MSA).
• Root cause analysis and corrective action (CAR).
• Process auditing and internal auditing.
• First Article Inspection (FAI).
• Six Sigma and lean manufacturing principles.
• Reliability analysis.
• Data analysis and reporting using ERP systems, databases, and spreadsheets.

Systems You’ll Use

• Google Enterprise
• ADP

Pay

The pay range for this position is $85,000 - $100,000 per year, plus incentive compensation. Exact salary will be contingent upon your experience, education, skills, and other relevant factors.

Benefits

For a sneak peek into some of our benefits and to learn more about our career opportunities, visit Winchester Interconnect Careers.