EP Quality Systems Engineer

Quality Systems Engineer

Aspen is a technology leader in sustainability and electrification solutions. The Company's aerogel technology enables its customers and partners to achieve their own objectives around the global megatrends of resource efficiency, e-mobility, and clean energy. Aspen's Pyro Thin® products enable solutions to thermal runaway challenges within the electric vehicle ("EV") market. The Company's Cryogel® and Pyrogel® products are valued by the world's largest energy infrastructure companies.

Aspen's strategy is to partner with world-class industry leaders to leverage its Aerogel Technology Platform® into additional high-value markets. Aspen is headquartered in Northborough, Mass.

At Aspen, our values reflect who we are and how we work both with each other and our customers, suppliers, and communities. They shape our interactions, guide our decisions, and inspire us to bring our best. Whether collaborating internally or externally, our values drive us to make a meaningful impact within Aspen and in all our relationships.

We Do the Right Thing

We are Problem Solvers

We are Allies

We Drive Forward

Aspen is seeking a motivated and collaborative Quality Systems Engineer to drive and continuously improve the East Providence Quality Management System (QMS). Reporting to the Quality Manager, this role is responsible for ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory, and internal quality requirements through effective management of quality system processes, corrective actions, document control, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives.

The Quality Systems Engineer works closely with Operations, Process Engineering, Supply Chain, R&D, EHS, and other cross-functional teams to promote quality, compliance, and operational excellence. While supporting alignment with Aspen's Global Quality Management System, the scope of this position is limited to the East Providence site and does not include responsibility for Quality Management System oversight, certification management, or audit scheduling at other Aspen locations.

Manage, maintain, and continuously improve the East Providence Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with IATF 16949, ISO 9001, VDA 6.3, applicable customer-specific requirements, statutory and regulatory requirements, and alignment with the Global Aspen QMS.

Develop, coordinate, and continuously improve the East Providence audit program, including Quality Management System, manufacturing process, layered process audits, customer, certification and other applicable audits.

Ensure audit planning, execution, reporting, corrective-action follow-up, and effectiveness verification are conducted in accordance with applicable standards and customer requirements.

Support investigations of internal, customer, supplier and audit-related nonconformities using structured problem-solving methodologies. Ensuring appropriate containment, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, implementation and effectiveness verification.

Manage the Customer-Specific Requirements process, including identification, applicability reviews, revision monitoring, assignment of ownership, communication, implementation, integration into the Quality Management System, and verification of compliance.

Monitor Quality Management Systems performance through Key Metrics, Management Review activities, audits, customer feedback, and operational performance data. Identify risk and improvement opportunities; drive actions to enhance process effectiveness, product quality, and customer satisfaction.

Manage document and record control processes, ensuring internal and external quality documents, customer-specific requirements, standards, specifications, records, and regulatory requirements are properly controlled, maintained, communicated, and available to applicable functions.

Serve as a System Admin for Aspen's Quality Management System Software and support training, competency development, implementation of quality system requirements and maintenance of associated records.

Coordinate quality-systems-related change management, risk assessment, opportunity evaluation, and contingency-planning activities to ensure…