Continuous Improvement Quality Engineer

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for Communications, Mobile, RF, Optics, and Commercial electronics markets. Amphenol Corporation is one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable. ACS has an expansive global presence in research and development, manufacturing, and sales.

We design and manufacture a wide range of innovative connectors as well as cable assemblies for diverse applications including server, storage, data center, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.

Position:
Continuous Improvement Quality Engineer

Location:
Etters, PA

Amphenol High Speed Products Group is the market leader for high speed, high bandwidth electrical connectors for the Telecom/Datacom market (Mobile Networks, Storage, Servers, Routers, Switches, etc.). Our products help to enable the electronics revolution and remain a key enabler for all the major Tier 1 OEMs globally. Our global headquarters are located in Nashua, NH and we have design, sales and manufacturing locations globally.

The CBS team is looking for a Continuous Improvement Quality Engineer to join the Quality Department in Etters, PA.

The Continuous Improvement Quality Engineer will drive sustainable improvements in product quality, manufacturing processes, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction through quality engineering principles, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma methodologies, statistical analysis, and risk management. This role serves as a cross-functional change agent, leading initiatives that reduce variation, eliminate waste, improve process capability, strengthen prevention, and enhance overall business performance.

The role applies recognized quality engineering practices across quality management systems, process improvement, statistical methods, reliability, risk management, corrective action, and data-driven decision making.

• Lead Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and operational excellence initiatives that improve product quality, process performance, cost, delivery, and customer satisfaction
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to reduce defects, scrap, rework, cycle time, waste, and cost of poor quality
• Facilitate cross-functional improvement projects across manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, supplier quality, NPI, and quality
• Develop and maintain continuous improvement roadmaps aligned with business objectives and promote a culture of prevention rather than detection

• Analyze manufacturing and business processes to identify sources of variation, instability, non-value-added activity, and quality risk
• Apply DMAIC and structured problem-solving methods, including 8D, Fishbone Diagrams, 5-Why Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, and Pareto Analysis
• Develop, implement, and verify corrective and preventive actions; monitor effectiveness and sustainability before closure
• Provide fact-based recommendations on process feasibility, risk, capability, manufacturability, and improvement priorities

• Use statistical methods and software to evaluate process performance and support data-driven decisions
• Perform process capability studies (Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk), Statistical Process Control, Measurement System Analysis, Gage R&R, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and Design of Experiments
• Develop dashboards and KPI reporting systems for quality, process performance, corrective action effectiveness, and improvement…