Senior Quality Engineer

About the role

We are looking for someone interested in connecting the dots between Engineering innovation and Quality execution to build stable, scalable processes. This role will focus on serving as the critical liaison that embeds world-class quality into the engineering lifecycle while bridging the gap between engineering design and manufacturing execution through rigorous process discipline.

This person acts as a key support and liaison between Engineering and Quality. They ensure key projects are supported with quality processes, documentation, training, and work instructions. They also ensure world-class manufacturing processes for change management, structured communications, and continuous improvement are incorporated into the standard work.

Responsibilities

• Support quality measurement and validation during implementation of projects.
• Lead process validation and risk assessments.
• Support commissioning new equipment and processes with change management, training, and communications.
• Develop or improve the technical quality standards, specifications, and policies.
• Review sanitary design on new projects and support improvement of sanitary design on current equipment.
• Support troubleshooting at the plant level (with QAMs) and customer troubleshooting.
• Support problem-solving across all plants and train personnel and quality teams to problem-solve.
• Support the measurement system and improvement to the measurement system.
• Support/Coach Focused Improvement Teams.
• Design standards for change management and structured communications.
• Fill in support for quality manager at the plant level if necessary.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years as a quality engineer or manager.
• Worked in manufacturing, food, or beverage (food and beverage preferred).
• Working knowledge of Six Sigma, DMAIC, or other continuous improvement processes and tools, including root cause analysis.
• Shows competency in data management, statistics, and data summaries.
• Understands how to set up validation studies (design of experiments or other).

Preferred Qualifications

• Laboratory experience (chemistry or microbiology).
• Lab management or other management of a measurement system.
• Technical writing or other writing experience.
• ASQ or other quality certifications.