Quality Engineering Team Leader

Brooks Instrument (  ), an industry leader in flow and pressure instrumentation for critical applications, is seeking candidates for a Quality Engineering Team Leader position that will be based at the company headquarters in Hatfield, Pennsylvania (suburban Philadelphia). The company has manufacturing locations in Pennsylvania, Hungary, Malaysia and Korea, and also maintains sales and service offices throughout the world. Our high-tech products are used in laboratory and process applications in end markets such as: oil & gas, petrochemical, medical devices, waste water, life sciences, and analytical instruments.

Brooks is a division of ITW (Illinois Tool Works), a fortune 200 company. ITW is one of the world’s leading diversified manufacturers of specialized industrial equipment, consumables, and related service businesses. The company has operations in 56 countries and employs over 50,000 employees. These talented employees, many of whom have specialized engineering or scientific expertise, contribute to ITW’s global leadership in innovation.

The company is proud of its broad portfolio of nearly 10,000 active patents, and is focused on fully leveraging its highly differentiated business model to deliver solid growth with consistent best-in-class margins and return on capital.

The Quality Engineering Team Lead is a hands-on technical leader responsible for supporting the quality, reliability, and continuous improvement of Brooks Instrument industrial products and related manufacturing processes at the Hatfield, Pennsylvania site. The role performs core quality engineering work while providing day-to-day direction, prioritization, training, and technical guidance to hourly Quality Technicians and others supporting quality processes.

Working closely with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Customer Service, and other cross-functional partners, this individual ensures that products and processes meet customer, regulatory, and company requirements. The successful candidate will be self-directed, highly organized, and comfortable balancing immediate production needs with corrective action, prevention, and longer-term process improvement.

• Serve as the working lead for day-to-day Industrial Products quality activities, remaining actively engaged in technical work, production support, investigations, and problem resolution.

• Establish daily priorities, coordinate assignments, balance workload, and provide work direction to hourly Quality Technicians and other personnel supporting inspection and quality processes.

• Provide technical coaching, training, and support to Quality Technicians; reinforce standard work, consistent decision-making, accurate documentation, and timely escalation of issues.

• Monitor completion and quality of assigned work, identify coverage or resource concerns, and communicate priorities, risks, and performance trends to the Quality Manager.

• Support the Quality Manager with onboarding, skills development, qualification/certification needs, performance feedback, and continuous improvement of team effectiveness.

• Promote a collaborative, accountable, customer-focused culture and model professional communication across shifts and functions

• Perform quality engineering activities and audits, and establish or maintain quality standards for incoming material, in-process production, and finished industrial products.

• Provide timely floor support for product and process nonconformances; lead structured containment, investigation, root-cause analysis, and corrective action with cross-functional teams.

• Review and disposition discrepant material in accordance with system requirements, ensuring product quality, traceability, and appropriate risk-based decisions.

• Review design, manufacturing, inspection, and test documentation to confirm that applicable quality-system, customer, and contract requirements are met.

• Verify and approve applicable operation instructions and inspection documentation, and ensure affected employees understand the requirements and their application.

• Develop and maintain inspection methods, sampling plans, control plans, forms, and instructions used to record, evaluate, and report quality data.

• Determine whether manufacturing processes and equipment are capable of meeting requirements through capability studies, control charts, measurement results, and other statistical data.

• Coordinate annual product…