Sr. Quality Engineer

Date:
Oct 6, 2026

Location:

Beloit, KS, US

Workplace Type:
Onsite

Employment Duration:
Permanent

Not everyone can claim to feed the world, but it is part of our every day. Behind everything we do for our farmers, there is one AGCO team making it happen. We are proud to put our curiosity to work, building a better and more sustainable world.

The Senior Quality Engineer is a plant technical leader for manufacturing quality strategy, control-system design, launch governance, and complex problem solving. The role leads the translation of product and process risks into robust special-characteristic controls, measurement strategies, Control Plans, functional test requirements, MSA, SPC, PPAP evidence, Safe Launch plans, quality gates, and finished-product verification. Working across Product Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Supplier Quality, and Product Integrity, the Senior Quality Engineer influences critical decisions, coaches Quality Engineers, resolves high-risk technical issues, and delivers measurable improvement in customer, supplier, launch, and manufacturing quality performance.

Your Impact

1. APQP, NPI and Launch Quality Governance

Lead plant Quality Engineering deliverables for major or high-risk NPI and APQP programs, establishing the quality strategy, reviewing technical adequacy, challenging weak evidence, escalating unresolved risk, and advising leadership on launch readiness.

Lead special-characteristic management across assigned products and processes; challenge characteristic flow-down, approve control and measurement strategies, and ensure KC/CC/SC requirements are traceable to reaction plans and objective evidence.

Provide senior technical challenge during PFMEA development, using field, warranty, supplier, capability, and lessons-learned data to influence risk prioritization and ensure significant risks are addressed in Control Plans and verification strategies without assuming PFMEA ownership.

Lead internal PPAP approval for complex or high-risk launches; determine evidence of sufficiency, resolve cross-functional gaps, and withhold quality approval when risk or evidence is unacceptable.

Establish and govern risk-based Safe Launch strategies, enhanced controls, escalation thresholds, exit criteria, and leadership status reporting; authorize or recommend exit based on demonstrated capability and defect containment.

Represent plant Quality Engineering in DFMEA, DFM/DFA, production readiness, and launch maturity reviews; influence design and process decisions using technical evidence, manufacturing risk, and customer impact.

2. Production Control Plans and Functional Verification

Lead control strategy development and approve Production Control Plans for complex assembly, fabrication, machining, stamping, paint, welding, and special processes; mentor others in risk-based control selection and change control.

Define and technically approve inspection and functional-test strategies, including method selection, coverage, sampling, acceptance criteria, reaction plans, data retention, and correlation to product risk and customer requirements.

Design and optimize quality-gate and finished-product-audit strategies using risk, defect escape data, process capability, and detection effectiveness; recommend control reduction or escalation based on evidence.

Provide technical leadership to Manufacturing Engineering during functional-test development and integration; review test architecture, failure detection, repeatability, false-pass risk, correlation, and validation evidence against approved quality requirements.

Establish governance that keeps Control Plans aligned with engineering changes, process changes, lessons learned, nonconformities, warranty signals, and emerging field risks; audit effectiveness across assigned areas.

3. Measurement Systems, SPC and Process Control

Serve as the technical authority for measurement strategy, gauge selection, MSA design, Gauge R&R interpretation, uncertainty and bias considerations, calibration linkage, and fitness-for-use decisions on complex applications.

Lead plant SPC methodology and advanced application, including characteristic selection, rational subgrouping, chart selection, limit strategy, reaction plans, automated monitoring, compliance, and escalation.

Interpret capability and stability using Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk, distribution behavior, control-chart signals, and supporting statistical methods; influence Manufacturing Engineering and Operations…