Quality Engineer

At Winchester Interconnect, we always do the right thing, the right way.

Winchester Interconnect is committed to inspiring the most innovative teams. We foster a dynamic, inclusive environment that thrives on collaboration and continuous growth. We hire exceptional people, celebrate wins, empower employee growth, and provide opportunities to thrive. Winchester is where potential transforms into purpose, and every team member plays a vital role in shaping our shared success.

The Quality Engineer has accountability and shared responsibility to ensure quality systems and processes are aligned and support the growth and improvement targets of the company. Winchester’s go to market strategy centers around its technical capabilities, customer service, and product reliability. This role will support the Quality Manager, work with engineering, operations, business development, and finance to achieve the productivity, quality, cost, and profitability revenue growth targets.

Specifically, in this role, you will drive technical investigations, conduct DOE, FMEA, process auditing, measurement system analysis, and use standard quality techniques to champion defect elimination and closed loop process improvement. You will be involved in the validation of new products and process launches and provide input on product reliability and compliance to promote advanced product quality planning.

• BS degree required and 3-5 years of quality experience, Material Science engineers or similar preferred
• Proficiency in quality, six sigma and lean manufacturing techniques, design for manufacturability, design for assembly, measurement system analysis, design of experiment, and failure mode and effects analysis techniques in a design and manufacturing environment
• Ability to direct quality resources to develop and implement test and inspection programs to meet customer, industry, regulatory standards across the manufacturing site
• Analytical thinker with demonstrated technical ability to perform root cause analysis, prepare and implement action plans, lead technical improvement initiatives
• Commitment to Winchester’s values of accountability, collaboration, and empowerment
• Compiles and uses data, databases, ERP systems, spreadsheets, etc. to communicate and contribute to enterprise-wide initiatives and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Ability to measure components and assemblies specified to tight tolerance
• Ability to measure process yields, report them, and drive improvement initiatives based on that data
• Experience with process auditing preferred

Our core values
- Accountability
, Collaboration
, and Empowerment (ACE) - are the foundation of how we operate and drive success. You will take ownership of your contributions, collaborate with a team that gets stuff done, and be empowered to innovate and pursue bold initiatives that drive our business forward.

• Accountable for advanced product quality planning, nonconforming material trend analysis and corrective action planning, and production process auditing, use their findings to propose and assist in administering best practices across the organization
• Assess customer, industry, and regulatory requirements, developing tailored quality plans to ensure compliance
• Execute audit plans to ensure adherence to customer, industry, and regulatory standards
• Drive a customer-centric, total quality culture, participate in NPI projects, internal auditing, FAIs, source inspections, RMAs, CARs, and general customer service as required
• Champion the Winchester culture, fostering a strong organization
• Collaborate across all levels of the organization, as well as our supplier and customer base as needed in a way that leads by example, holds people accountable and utilizes data to make informed decisions
• Empowered to support and maintain quality systems to capture, monitor, and manage product and process quality, aligning with the company’s tactical and strategic business goals
• Assist in developing and monitoring business process performance metrics/indicators, making recommendations and supporting process improvements
• Participate and perform…