Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Varian Medical Systems, a Siemens Healthineers company, is seeking a Quality Engineer to join our team in Scottsdale, Arizona. As the site's primary quality engineering resource, you will have the opportunity to contribute to important engineering decisions and directly support manufacturing operations, incoming inspection, supplier quality, quality systems, and continuous improvement activities within an ISO 9001:2015-compliant manufacturing environment. Working closely with Supply Chain, Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, IT, and other cross-functional teams, the Quality Engineer will help develop, implement, and sustain scalable quality practices that ensure product quality, process effectiveness, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence.

In this role, you will mainly be responsible for the following:

• Serve as a key quality engineering resource across manufacturing quality, incoming inspection, supplier quality, quality systems, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Define, implement, maintain, and continuously improve quality system processes, procedures, work instructions, and other related controlled documentation to support Scottsdale operations and ISO 9001:2015 compliance.
• Support manufacturing operations by ensuring products, processes, and quality controls meet established specifications, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations.
• Develop and maintain incoming, in-process, and final inspection methods, acceptance criteria, critical-to-quality characteristics, and inspection controls to ensure effective product verification.
• Support supplier quality activities, including supplier issue investigations, corrective action follow-up, supplier performance monitoring, and quality documentation reviews.
• Investigate, document, and support the disposition of nonconforming materials, components, processes, and finished goods while partnering with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and other stakeholders to drive timely resolution.
• Lead and support root cause investigations, containment actions, corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), and recurrence prevention efforts using structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Analyze manufacturing, inspection, supplier, calibration, and quality system data to identify trends, mitigate risks, and drive data-based improvements.
• Establish, monitor, and report key quality performance indicators, including yield, defect trends, supplier performance, inspection effectiveness, calibration compliance, and issue closure metrics.
• Support new product introductions, manufacturing readiness activities, process changes, equipment qualification, risk assessments, process validation, and production builds as needed.
• Assist with calibration and metrology program activities, including equipment status management, record maintenance, out-of-tolerance investigations, and process improvements.
• Participate as needed in internal audits, management reviews, document control activities, and other quality system processes to ensure site compliance and audit readiness.
• Develop and deliver training on quality procedures, inspection requirements, and quality system processes to support consistent execution across the site.
• Partner closely with Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Product Quality, Supplier Quality, Quality Systems, and site leadership to resolve quality issues, strengthen process controls, and enhance customer satisfaction.
• Apply Lean, Six Sigma, statistical methods, and continuous improvement tools to reduce variation, improve yield, lower the cost of poor quality, and drive operational excellence.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Quality, or a related engineering discipline, with 5+ years of experience in a quality, manufacturing, or process engineering role.
• Experience supporting manufacturing operations, establishing Quality Management Systems (QMS), quality investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 or similar quality management system requirements.
• Experience using structured problem-solving and root cause analysis methodologies…