Senior Specialist, Quality Engineer

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Job Title:
Senior Specialist, Quality Engineering

Job Code: 44946

Job Location:
Londonderry, NH

Job Schedule: 1st shift - 9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days — totaling 80 hours worked — and have every other Friday off

The Senior Specialist, Quality Engineer is responsible for leading and executing quality engineering activities for an assigned program to ensure internal, customer, regulatory, and third‑party requirements are clearly defined, communicated, and achieved. This role serves as the primary Quality Engineering resource for the assigned program and provides broad support across production, compliance, testing, change management, metrics, and continuous improvement activities. Drives Program quality execution and interact with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Program Management, and Engineering personnel to maintain high levels of Compliance.

Leads material review board and Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA) activities. Serves as the primary interface to customers for quality related matters. This position requires a strong working knowledge of quality systems, manufacturing processes, root cause analysis, and cross‑functional problem solving in a production environment.

• Serve as the primary Quality Engineering point of contact for an assigned program.
• Provide program-level leadership on quality projects, ensuring requirements are verified, and consistently met or exceeded.
• Lead and coordinate the issuance of Corrective Actions, facilitating root cause analyses and implementation of effective corrective actions for production or system non-conformances, defects, or compliance gaps.
• Lead the review, documentation, investigation, defect categorization and disposition of nonconforming material in coordination with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Material Review Board participants.
• Serve as the primary quality escalation point for Production and Rework-related issues within the program, ensuring timely resolution and effective communication across all stakeholders.
• Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives in Quality Engineering, ensuring business alignment across customer, supply base, proposal, program, and hardware requirements.
• Serve as the Quality representative on Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), collaborating with Program Management, Supplier Quality Engineering, and management; present quality updates to leadership on a quarterly basis for assigned program.
• Ensure that program and Site quality goals—including cost, timeliness, and compliance—are met. Analyze Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ) data and drive effective solutions to reduce costs and prevent recurrence.
• Continuously enhance production, quality assurance and in-process/final inspection processes, tools, and planning.
• Measure, monitor, report, and improve internal and external process performance, including quality and delivery metrics.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Engineering, and Manufacturing to drive…