Quality Engineer

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Electronics. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you've got big plans - so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet.

That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries.

We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers.

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

The Quality Engineer position will lead the effort to raise quality performance for materials delivered to major semiconductor customers globally. In this role, you will identify improvement opportunities, lead cross-functional teams through structured problem solving and Lean/Six Sigma projects, and embed sustainable process changes that reduce variation, prevent defects, and strengthen customer confidence. As the voice of the customer, you will partner with the Site Quality Manager to build a culture of continuous improvement, using process control tools, data, and automation to make quality gains measurable and lasting.

• Partner with the Site Quality Manager to set improvement goals and maintain and advance quality performance
• Act as the voice of the customer to the site, translating customer feedback and requirements into improvement priorities
• Lead site continuous improvement efforts for Hometown quality, identifying, prioritizing, and delivering projects that reduce defects, variation, and cost of poor quality
• Use process control tools (e.g., SPC reviews) and performance metrics to find improvement opportunities and confirm that are sustained
• Lead investigations to root cause using structured problem-solving tools (5-Whys, segmentation, Model Based Problem Solving) and manage cross-functional teams in implementing corrective, preventive, and mitigation actions
• Drive Lean and Six Sigma projects (DMAIC, kaizen events, value stream mapping) from scoping through implementation and sustainment
• Lead cross-functional teams in resolving various issues and translating lessons learned into standardized process improvements across the site and globally
• Identify and enable automation and data digitization activities that speed decisions, improve visibility into unknown variables and issues, and remove manual inefficiencies
• Lead FMEAs, management of change, and document control improvements to keep changes controlled, documented, and effective
• Support and engage in audits of site processing and quality systems, turning findings into improvement actions
• Contribute to global quality projects and share best practices across sites
• Coach and mentor teams in continuous improvement methods to build problem-solving capability across the site

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, or a similar technical discipline, along with 5+ years of experience supporting or leading quality or continuous improvement initiatives in a semiconductor, chemical production, or a similar manufacturing environment
• OR Master's degree in chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, or a similar technical discipline along with 3+ years of experience supporting or leading quality or continuous improvement initiatives in a semiconductor, chemical production, or a similar manufacturing environment

• Demonstrated success leading continuous improvement projects with measurable results
• Experience with quality problem-solving tools (5-Whys, segmentation, Model Based Problem Solving), FMEAs, continuous improvement activities, management of change, and document control systems
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification preferred
• Demonstrated success…