Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Department: Quality

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Swagelok Northern California

Reporting To: Quality Assurance Manager

Compensation: $107,070 - $153,913 / year

The Quality Engineer drives continuous improvement in business performance by ensuring processes consistently deliver safe, reliable, and customer-focused outcomes. Working collaboratively with process owners, this role measures and analyzes process performance, identifies risks and opportunities for improvement, and implements sustainable corrective and preventive actions.

The Quality Engineer serves as the steward of our Quality Management System, ensuring compliance while reducing process variation, improving operational effectiveness, and enhancing customer satisfaction. The Quality Engineer leads our internal audit program to assess process effectiveness, uncover risks and opportunities for improvement, and ensures corrective actions drive measurable and sustainable improvements in business performance. Through data‑driven decision making and root cause problem solving, this position helps the organization achieve its quality, delivery, and growth objectives.

• Develop, execute, and continuously enhance the internal and supplier audit programs to assess process effectiveness, ensure compliance, identify risks, and drive operational improvement.
• Develop, maintain, and improve quality system documentation, process descriptions, work instructions, and manufacturing procedures to support operational excellence and standardization.
• Evaluate supplier capabilities, quality systems, and process controls to ensure conformance with organizational, customer, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure supplier compliance with customer-specific requirements, including documentation, certifications, traceability, and quality record submissions.
• Review engineering drawings, bills of materials, routings, specifications, and related documentation to verify accuracy, completeness, and compliance with customer and company requirements.

• Own and continuously improve the Nonconforming Product (NCP) and supplier Returned Material Authorization (RMA) processes to minimize quality escapes, reduce recurrence, and protect customer satisfaction.
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective action initiatives, ensuring systemic issues are identified, addressed, and prevented from recurring through sustainable process improvements.
• Investigate, document, and resolve quality-related issues, coordinating with internal teams and external partners as needed.
• Communicate the status of quality-related issues, corrective actions, and improvement activities to Production Control, Operations, and other stakeholders.
• Attend and actively participate in Quality, Material Review Board (MRB), and other cross‑functional meetings to review quality performance, resolve issues, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Quality teams to proactively prevent nonconforming products from reaching customers through effective quality planning, risk mitigation, and process controls.
• Provide quality engineering support for new and existing products through first‑piece approvals, First Article Inspection Reports (FAIR), and validation of manufacturing processes.
• Participate in product and process design reviews to identify quality risks, improve manufacturability, and ensure customer requirements are adequately addressed.
• Provide technical guidance and support to Quality Technicians and inspection personnel to ensure consistent application of quality standards and inspection requirements.

• Monitor, analyze, and communicate supplier quality performance metrics, leading initiatives that improve supplier capability, reliability, and overall supply chain performance.
• Provide quality engineering support for new and existing products through first‑piece approvals, First Article Inspection Reports (FAIR), and validation of manufacturing processes.
• Foster collaborative…