Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

The Quality Engineer supports high-volume advanced manufacturing operations involving laser processing, fragile material handling, inspection, cleaning, packaging, and customer quality requirements. This role develops, maintains, and improves data collection systems to understand process performance, identify defect trends, support root-cause analysis, and ensure effective, well-documented production controls. A key focus is creating reliable process data at every production step, from incoming inspection through shipment, while partnering closely with Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing, Materials, and customer-facing teams.

This position is critical to scaling production while protecting yield, customer confidence, product traceability, and process control within a cutting-edge, high-growth environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and improve production quality data collection systems to monitor process performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Create and manage reliable process data across all production steps, including incoming inspection, lamination, laser processing, cleaning, final inspection, packaging, and shipment.
• Analyze production data to identify defect trends, process variation, and quality risks, and translate findings into practical corrective and preventive actions.
• Support root-cause analysis and implement disciplined corrective actions to address quality issues and prevent recurrence.
• Ensure production controls are effective, documented, and aligned with quality management system requirements, including ISO 9001.
• Collaborate closely with Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing, Materials, and customer-facing program teams to identify and mitigate quality risks early.
• Support and maintain documentation such as Control Plans, PFMEA, work instructions, inspection plans, and nonconforming material processes.
• Collect data, compile it into graphs and charts, and present it in a clear and meaningful way to internal stakeholders and customers.
• Interface directly with customers to address quality concerns, present data and proposals, and respond to quality-related requests.
• Support customer audits, supplier qualifications, Control Plan reviews, PFMEA reviews, and corrective-action reviews as needed.
• Contribute to process control, defect tracking, and process capability analysis to support stable, scalable production.
• Participate in and support production ramps, new product introductions, and high-growth manufacturing activities to ensure quality is maintained as volume increases.
• Use structured problem-solving methods and statistical tools such as MSA, gage R&R, SPC, capability analysis, and Pareto analysis to improve processes.
• Support optical inspection, metrology, and automated inspection methods where applicable, ensuring measurement systems are suitable and reliable.
• Prepare and deliver proposals and technical presentations to internal teams and external customers, explaining quality strategies, findings, and recommendations.

Essential

Skills:

• 3–5 years of experience as a Quality Engineer in a manufacturing or production environment.
• Experience working within an ISO 9001 quality management system and familiarity with ISO 9001 QMS requirements.
• Ability to interface effectively with customers regarding quality issues, data, and corrective actions.
• Strong ability to collect data, compile it into graphs and charts, and present it in a clear and meaningful way.
• Experience with root-cause analysis, corrective action, process control, and defect tracking.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Materials Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience such as an associate degree or substantial non-degreed technical experience.
• Strong capability to develop and maintain production quality data systems.
• Familiarity with Control Plans, PFMEA, work instructions, inspection plans, and nonconforming material processes.
• Ability to analyze data, identify trends, and convert findings into practical actions that improve quality and process performance.
• Strong communication skills for working with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Materials, and customer-facing teams.
• Strong attention to detail and a high level of commitment to documentation accuracy.

Additional Skills &

Qualifications:

• Experience in aerospace, industrial manufacturing, or medical device manufacturing environments is highly preferred.
• Experience supporting production ramps, new product introductions, or high-growth manufacturing environments.
• Experience with laser processing, semiconductor materials, wafer handling, micro-machining, optics, electronics, medical devices, aerospace, or other precision manufacturing environments.
• Experience working with fragile materials such as wafers, thin films, coated materials, or thermal interface materials.
• Experience with optical inspection, digital microscopy, profilometry, metrology systems, SWIR/IR inspection, or automated inspection methods.
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