Aerospace Transparencies - Senior Quality Engineer

Aerospace Transparencies - Senior Quality Engineer

Huntsville, AL

Are you a Senior Quality Engineer ready to take your career to new heights? Passionate about the voice of the customer and the voice of quality within cross‑functional teams? Ready to prevent quality escapes, resolve customer issues, and embed quality into engineering and manufacturing processes? Your deep knowledge of AS9100, FAA, and EASA requirements will make a difference for our customers and end users.

If this sounds like you, APPLY NOW for this role as part of the PPG team!

As a senior technical contributor, you will lead preventive quality engineering, systemic problem solving, and customer quality execution across the product lifecycle. You will lead complex quality investigations, drive robust corrective actions, and partner cross‑functionally to ensure manufacturing and support processes are capable, compliant, and continually improving. You will operate with significant autonomy and be accountable for technical quality leadership, customer issue resolution, and systemic improvement.

Focus on root‑cause elimination, data‑driven decision‑making, and sustained process capability.

Position is fully onsite at our Huntsville, AL facility. You will report to the Quality Manager.

• Lead customer quality issues, complaints, and audits as the primary quality engineering lead.
• Lead cross‑functional root‑cause investigations and drive containment, corrective, and preventive actions using structured methodologies (e.g., 8D).
• Ensure corrective actions address true systemic and process causes, verify effectiveness, and embed lessons learned into standard work.
• Apply advanced quality tools (SPC, FMEA, Control Plans, DOE, MSA) and analyze quality data to identify trends and risks.
• Partner across functions to implement sustainable process improvements and represent quality requirements in design, change, and failure reviews.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and data‑driven insights to support leadership decision‑making and customer communication.
• Act as a senior technical influencer, mentoring quality engineers and driving outcomes through expertise rather than authority.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Eight or more years of aerospace or similar environmental quality engineering experience.
• Six Sigma, CQE, or similar certifications are preferred.
• Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply.

PPG offers comprehensive benefits including Health, Dental, Life, Retirement Plan, Paid Vacation & Holidays, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Disability/Leave, and other voluntary benefit offerings. Actual benefit offerings are confirmed at the time of hire.

All offer amounts are dictated by length/breadth of applicable experience and current departmental pay equity.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without distinction of sex, pregnancy, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression.

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