Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Amphenol Industrial Operations

Reports To:

Quality Manager

The Quality Engineer is responsible for supporting day-to-day quality initiatives within manufacturing operations to ensure product conformity, process control, and customer satisfaction. This position works closely with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Operations teams to identify and resolve quality issues, reduce defects, improve process capability, and drive continuous improvement efforts. The Quality Engineer serves as a key resource in root cause analysis, corrective action implementation, audit support, and ongoing monitoring of quality performance across automated assembly, CNC machining, and progressive stamping operations.

This role reports directly to the Quality Manager and plays a critical role in maintaining compliance with the site's Quality Management System (QMS).

Amphenol Industrial Operations, headquartered in Endicott, New York, with global manufacturing, design, sales, and marketing locations, specializes in delivering a comprehensive range of high-reliability power and signal connectors along with interconnection systems designed specifically for harsh environments and high performance. Our solutions cater to diverse, high-growth industrial sectors such as alternative energy, energy storage, hyperscale datacom, telecom, rail and mass transit, electric and hybrid vehicles, transportation, factory automation, robotics, and heavy equipment.

Our product portfolio addresses modern power and signal requirements and emerging system technology needs encompassing high-amperage power interconnects utilizing proprietary RADSOK contact technology, ruggedized circular, rectangular interconnects and board level contacts (GT, AC, PT, Amphe-Lite, Radsert, Power Blok, Sur Lok Plus, ePower, UPC, H4 Plus, and more), advanced power distribution including value-add box builds, custom-engineered cable assemblies and overmolded harnesses. With a dedicated team of over 2500 skilled staff operating across a growing international footprint—including eight key manufacturing sites in North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East providing localization for our customer base.

Amphenol Industrial Operations consistently meets the highest global standards of quality, product performance, design capabilities, and regionalized technical and sales support.

Amphenol Industrial Operations proudly operates as a business unit of Amphenol Corporation (NYSE: APH), a global leader in the electronics revolution, headquartered in Wallingford, Connecticut.

• Support daily manufacturing quality activities and provide hands-on assistance in resolving production quality issues.
• Investigate nonconforming material, customer complaints, internal rejects, scrap, and rework issues using structured problem-solving techniques.
• Lead and facilitate root cause analysis activities utilizing tools such as 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, PFMEA, and statistical analysis methods.
• Develop, implement, and monitor corrective and preventive actions to ensure sustainable solutions.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering to improve process capability, reduce variation, and eliminate recurring defects.
• Maintain and update control plans, inspection plans, process flow diagrams, PFMEAs, and quality procedures.
• Analyze quality metrics including DPPM, first-pass yield, scrap, rework, and customer returns to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Participate in new product introduction activities by supporting risk assessments, process validations, capability studies, and inspection planning.
• Perform process audits, product audits, and layered audits to verify compliance and process…