Quality Engineer

Founded in London in 1946,
Goodfellow is a global leader in advanced materials, enabling innovation globally across high-tech sectors including aerospace, medical research, electronics, and green energy. With a portfolio of more than 170,000 specialist products
, we support scientists, engineers, and manufacturers worldwide in transforming ideas into real world solutions.

The Quality Engineer will support high-volume advanced manufacturing operations involving laser processing, fragile material handling, inspection, cleaning, packaging, and customer quality requirements. This role is responsible for developing, maintaining, and improving the data collection systems needed to understand process performance, identify defect trends, support root-cause analysis, and ensure that production controls are effective and documented.

A primary focus of this position will be creating reliable process data across each step of production, including incoming inspection, lamination, laser processing, cleaning, final inspection, packaging, and shipment. The Quality Engineer will work closely with Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing, Materials, and customer-facing program teams to ensure that quality risks are identified early, contained quickly, and permanently addressed through disciplined corrective action.

• Develop and maintain the quality data collection system for all critical process steps.
• Define what data must be collected at incoming inspection, lamination, laser processing, cleaning, inspection, packaging, and shipment.
• Ensure data is tied to part number, revision, serial number, lot number, purchase order, process step, equipment, operator, inspection result, and disposition.
• Track defects by type, location, severity, process step, equipment, lot, operator, and customer impact.
• Create trend reports to identify recurring issues, abnormal variation, yield loss, scrap drivers, and process drift.
• Support daily, weekly, and customer-facing quality reviews with accurate, timely data.
• Develop dashboards, logs, trackers, and reports that allow the team to understand process capability and risk.
• Ensure that quality data is complete, controlled, accurate, and usable for root-cause analysis.

• Support quality control for laser-processed wafers, thermal interface material, and other fragile or customer-sensitive materials.
• Develop inspection methods for wafer bow, edge chips, micro-cracks, cracks, scratches, contamination, coating defects, handling damage, and packaging-related damage.
• Support evaluation of inspection technologies such as profilometry, digital microscopy, optical inspection, SWIR imaging, infrared inspection, or other economically feasible detection methods.
• Establish documentation methods for defect location, including photo records, clock-position mapping, and serial-number traceability.
• Help determine whether incoming conditions, process steps, handling methods, cleaning, chucking, or packaging contribute to cracking or other defects.
• Support containment and disposition of suspect wafers, TIM parts, and nonconforming material.

• Lead or support root-cause analysis for scrap, yield loss, customer complaints, nonconforming material, process escapes, and recurring defects.
• Use structured problem-solving methods such as 5 Why, fishbone analysis, Pareto analysis, fault-tree thinking, process mapping, and data correlation.
• Work with Engineering and Operations to identify whether defects are related to incoming condition, equipment, tooling, fixtures, vacuum hold-down, cleaning, handling, operator method, packaging, environment, or process parameters.
• Develop and track corrective and preventive actions.
• Verify effectiveness of corrective actions through data, inspection results, and sustained process performance.
• Ensure lessons learned are incorporated into work instructions, Control Plans, PFMEAs, training, and inspection procedures.

• Develop, maintain, and improve Control Plans for production processes.
• Support PFMEA development and ensure that identified risks are linked to actual process controls and reaction plans.
• Ensure Control Plans include clear inspection points, measurement methods, sampling plans, acceptance criteria, escalation triggers, and containment actions.
• Maintain quality procedures, inspection instructions, data collection forms, nonconforming material records, and customer-required documentation.
• Ensure that process changes, revision changes, tooling changes, inspection changes, and customer requirements are properly documented and communicated.
• Support preparation for customer reviews, audits, and quality meetings.

• Define inspection requirements for incoming, in-process, and final inspection.
• Support development of visual standards and acceptance criteria for fragile materials, including wafers and thermal parts.
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