Program Quality Engineer II - 2nd Shift; Onsite

As a Program Quality Engineer II – 2nd Shift in our Rockford, IL location, you’ll play a critical, hands‑on role in safeguarding product integrity and driving quality excellence across active manufacturing programs. Supporting 2nd shift production, you’ll be embedded where decisions matter most—working directly with manufacturing teams to ensure customer quality requirements are fully understood, flowed down, and executed across internal operations, Collins‑wide support sites, and key suppliers.

From managing escapes and nonconforming material to leading root cause analysis and corrective actions, you’ll be a trusted quality leader ensuring issues are resolved decisively and don’t reoccur.

This role blends program-level responsibility with product-level execution, giving you exposure to complex manufacturing environments, cross‑functional stakeholders, and multi‑site coordination. You’ll enhance and maintain quality systems, oversee testing and inspection methodologies, support MRB and supplier quality activities, and help drive proactive quality initiatives that strengthen both process reliability and customer confidence. For engineers who thrive in a fast‑paced, accountability‑driven environment and want to grow their impact in aerospace manufacturing, this role offers meaningful responsibility, visibility, and the opportunity to make a real difference.

This is an Onsite role in Rockford, IL. The core hours for 2nd Shift are 3:30 pm – 12 am.

• Support Production on 2nd Shift of Manufacturing
• Understand and implement customer quality requirements, ensuring thorough flow down and execution of these requirements across internal production and Collins wide support sites as well as major subcontractors
• Lead the execution of escape management procedures, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning and implementation, adhering to current standard work
• Enhance processes to develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation, control systems, and protocols
• Oversee and resolve nonconforming material and process noncompliance events
• Provide detailed analysis and explanations of testing and inspection plans, methods, and technologies to ensure product and process reliability and conformance
• Ensure projects and process control documentation comply with requirements, objectives, and contracts
• Assist with supplier quality activities, warranty processes, part purges, and MRB activities
• Develop and implement proactive quality initiative strategies
• Oversee both Program and Product Quality Engineering responsibilities

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field
• Previous experience supporting quality functions within a manufacturing or production environment

• Self‑directed, proactive mindset with the ability to manage priorities independently
• AS9100 Experience
• MRB Experience
• Advanced degree in engineering or related field
• Experience working with electrical, electronic, and electromechanical devices and applications
• Experience with managing projects across multiple facilities

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal,  protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• And more!

• Eligible for relocation

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