Lead Quality Engineer

We are seeking a passionate Lead Quality Engineer committed to turning engineering designs into reliable, high-quality products. This role focuses on developing and implementing rigorous quality processes that meet or exceed industry standards. This is a predominantly hands-on role, requiring the successful candidate to work directly with internal/external manufacturing, testing and production teams to identify issues, implement solutions and drive continuous quality improvement. The ideal candidate will leverage their design and manufacturing experience and analytical skills to ensure reliability throughout production, supply chain, testing and deployment phases of the entire suite of product lines.

Responsibilities:

Define and maintain Quality Management System (QMS) and provide training to relevant personnel on ISO 9001 compliance requirements and industry standards

Perform as and train QA for Electrical and Mechanical systems, including drawings, production and test operations inspection signoffs and verification of compliance to procedures

Use strong engineering domain knowledge and practical experience to advise and solve problems with the design, manufacturing, supply chain, and leadership teams on product quality and safety

Partner with Product and Project engineering to create inspection plans for all deployable systems and support real time during operations on the implementation of the plans

Take a methodical approach to identifying the largest quality related issues and risks impacting manufacturing and operations across the product lines and partner with relevant stakeholders to minimize risk and implement process improvements

Assess core business processes, systems, and products through internal audits to assure compliance to customer requirements, procedures and policies, and ISO9001 standards

Utilize corrective and preventive action processes to address non-conformances and drive improvement of quality management across the various product lines

Drive quality assurance within the supply chain, ensuring effective supplier qualification and ongoing performance monitoring

Defi ne team growth plan and roadmap to increasing quality support across all relevant production, test and deployment operations

tire suite of product lines.

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7+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment as a Manufacturing Engineer, Test Engineer, Reliability Engineer, or Quality Engineer

Preferred Requirements:

Demonstrated experience in GD&T, MIL-STD, IPC and ISO family of standards

ASQ-CQA-RAB certified lead auditor or training with direct hands-on experience

Proficiency with quality tools such as design of experiments, statistical process control, root cause analysis and corrective action, advanced product quality planning (APQP), and process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA)

Strong technical writing skills, ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and strong problem-solving skills

Ability to work independently and take initiative; is creative, detail oriented and has a positive attitude when faced with challenging problems

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