Quality Engineer

Job title:

Quality engineer

Exciting opportunity for career growth at a leading UUV company Description We are seeking an experienced Quality Engineer to support product development, manufacturing, and supplier quality initiatives while driving continuous improvement efforts throughout the organization. This position plays a key role in ensuring products meet customer, regulatory, and internal quality requirements.

• Serve as the CAPA Chairperson, leading root cause investigations and corrective/preventive action activities to eliminate recurring nonconformances.
• Act as the lead Quality Engineer for a new vehicle product line.
• Partner with design engineering teams to ensure quality requirements are incorporated early in the product development lifecycle.
• Identify, document, and resolve product, process, and quality system issues.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure production routings contain proper quality controls and inspection requirements.
• Support supplier audits and assessments to verify compliance, drive standardization, eliminate waste, and promote continuous improvement.
• Travel to supplier and subcontractor locations as needed to clarify quality requirements, conduct quality risk assessments, and resolve supplier quality issues.
• Assist in evaluating supplier technical concerns and ensuring continuity of supply that meets technical and quality requirements.
• Work cross‑functionally with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and program teams to maintain a robust quality management program.
• Monitor, communicate, and improve key quality performance metrics and KPIs.
• Establish and execute short‑ and long‑term product quality goals.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives utilizing Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, process capability studies, value stream mapping, and process analyses.
• Support new product introductions, design updates, disposition activities, and nonconforming material processes.

The Quality Engineer develops, implements, and maintains quality systems, processes, and controls to ensure products meet customer expectations and regulatory requirements. This role collaborates closely with engineering, manufacturing, laboratory, and supplier quality teams to establish inspection methods, testing procedures, acceptance criteria, and risk mitigation strategies. Responsibilities include designing and analyzing inspection processes, conducting quality audits and assessments, performing statistical analyses, supporting corrective actions, ensuring compliance with quality standards, and driving operational excellence through continuous improvement initiatives.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a government clearance. Preference for experience in ISO 9000 or AS9100 manufacturing environment.

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Plymouth, MA.

The pay range for this position is $43.26 - $55.28/hr individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms.

If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre‑tax and Roth post‑tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and…