Quality Engineer

Job Location:

Maple Grove Office - Maple Grove, MN, Position Type:
Full Time, Education Level: 4 Year Degree, Salary Range: $80000.00 - $93000.00

Salary/year, Job Category:
Engineering, Gradian is an engineering-led, full-line thermal solutions partner serving data center and other mission-critical, commercial, and industrial markets. Headquartered in Maple Grove, MN, with additional facilities across North America, we design and manufacture liquid cooling systems, air handling equipment, heat rejection units, and modular, factory-assembled thermal management solutions.

Gradian was founded through the unification of four complementary, established brands: MAS HVAC, Daedex, DeepCoolAI, and Eco Chillers. Together, we act as a single-source provider, deploying cooling technologies as scalable systems optimized for efficiency, spatial constraints, and overall performance. With a vertically integrated engineering and manufacturing model, we pair rapid design turnaround with precision fabrication, so customers can move faster on complex projects where reliability, timeline, and quality all matter.

At Gradian, you'll work alongside others who get genuinely fired up by complex problems, see your work go from first sketch to job site in weeks, not years, and know that while we're developing the technologies critical for AI infrastructure to scale, our culture remains people-first by design.

It is core to our identity that we operate as one team — driving to win together, energizing others, and building lasting relationships that make the work fun and rewarding.

The Quality Engineer is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining quality systems that ensure products and manufacturing processes meet internal, customer, and regulatory requirements. This role works cross‑functionally with engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and quality management to drive product reliability, ensure compliance, and support continuous improvement initiatives. The Quality Engineer will also conduct risk management activities, lead investigations, and contribute technical expertise to both new product development and sustaining engineering efforts.

If you like being a part of building something, this is your opportunity to help us build our Quality Management System from the ground up!

The candidate will be working in a manufacturing facility that produces liquid coolant distribution units and HVAC systems and components including but not limited to: enthalpy & sensible plate heat exchangers, energy recovery wheels, gas and electric heaters, hot water coils, cold water coils, DX coils, filter racks, control dampers, fan array systems, coolant distribution units, etc.

• Write Work Instructions for manufacturing processes.
• Develop inspection protocols.
• Develop and maintain quality standards for manufacturing and material processing.
• Conduct quality assurance testing, statistical analyses, process validations, and risk management deliverables (e.g., PFMEA).
• Lead and implement process control and monitoring of CTQ (Critical‑to‑Quality) parameters.
• Support creation and approval of product performance specifications, engineering drawings, work instructions, and test methods.
• Execute Design Verification, Design Validation, Process Characterization, and Process Validation activities.

• Evaluate and disposition nonconformance reports (NCRs) for product and material issues.
• Lead Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs), root cause investigations, and monitor implementation effectiveness.
• Support complaint investigations, field action assessments, and post‑market root cause analysis.

• Perform data…