Sr. Quality Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex quality investigations involving customer escapes, recurring defects, systemic process failures, audit findings, and major nonconformances.
• Drive containment, root cause analysis, corrective action, preventive action, effectiveness verification, and sustainment for significant quality issues.
• Own the review, interpretation, communication, and implementation strategy for customer-specific quality requirements.
• Translate customer requirements into operational controls across manufacturing, inspection, documentation, labeling, traceability, training, and quality records.
• Identify gaps between customer requirements and site execution and drive cross-functional closure before they result in defects, escapes, or audit findings.
• Provide technical quality engineering support for manufacturing processes, inspection criteria, process controls, corrective action strategy, and systemic risk reduction.
• Mentor QE I and QE II team members in investigations, customer requirement interpretation, data analysis, process control, and corrective action discipline.
• Support internal audits, process audits, customer audits, registrar audits, compliance assessments, management review inputs, and quality improvement planning.
• Lead improvement projects tied to FPY, DPPM, scrap, rework, fallout, cost of poor quality, customer escapes, and audit readiness.
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of Quality department objectives, customer requirements, production support, and QMS/EMS compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related technical field preferred.
• 5+ years of Quality Engineering experience in manufacturing.
• 3+ years of electronics, PCBA, or related technical manufacturing experience preferred.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001, corrective action systems, manufacturing process controls, and customer requirement implementation.
• Experience with IPC-A-610, ISO 14001, SMT, AOI, AXI, inspection, test, and rework processes preferred.
• Strong communication, technical judgment, cross-functional influence, and problem-solving skills.