Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer

Job Duties

• Analyze processes to identify improvements in efficiency, cost reduction, safety, and risk mitigation.
• Develop and maintain quality standards, metrics, testing, and data collection systems; support process capability and documentation review.
• Monitor quality trends and lead defect reduction and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure quality compliance during product development, supplier integration, and manufacturing processes.
• Investigate production issues, warranty concerns, and failures; implement corrective and preventive actions and solutions.
• Support supplier audits, nonconformance reviews, training, reporting, and continuous development of quality systems and personnel.

Minimum Qualifications

• This position requires a four-year college degree plus 8-15 years’ experience.
• Non-degree considered if 12+ years of related experience along with a high school diploma or GED
• Minimal travel outside of the campus area.
• Occasional overnight stays (less than 10%)

Preferred Qualifications

• ASQ (or equivalent) Certified Quality Engineer certification highly desired.
• Excellent computer literacy, word processing skills (MS Word) and spreadsheet skills (MS Excel)
• Certain technical skills and training, such as quality tools and techniques, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), process capability theory and statistical process control (SPC)
• Good problem-solving skills are also required, including 5Y’s and basic 6 Sigma tools.  The incumbent should have good communication skills, the ability to work effectively with people and the personal drive/sense of urgency necessary to provide needed support in the time frames demanded.