Job Summary
A Quality Engineer is needed for a temp-to-hire opportunity in North Billerica, MA, supporting high-reliability electronics manufacturing with a focus on conformal coating quality. This role is ideal for a quality professional with hands-on experience in electronics production, IPC standards, coating processes, inspection methods, and continuous improvement.
The Quality Engineer Associate - Conformal Coating will provide technical oversight for coating application, inspection, validation, and defect prevention. This position supports a highly regulated manufacturing environment where precision, documentation, process control, and customer compliance are critical.
This opportunity offers the chance to work with experienced quality and compliance leadership, collaborate closely with production and engineering teams, and contribute to a positive, team-oriented environment. Candidates who enjoy solving problems, improving processes, training others, and supporting high-quality manufacturing outcomes will find this role especially rewarding.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain conformal coating quality control plans to ensure compliance with IPC, NASA, MIL, customer, regulatory, and internal requirements.
- Review and approve coating parameters for spray, dip, brush, and selective coating processes.
- Validate curing profiles, coating thickness measurement methods, and inspection criteria for conformal coating applications.
- Support DFM, PFMEA, FMEA, NPI, FAI, and FAIR documentation activities.
- Perform root cause analysis using tools such as 8D, 5-Why, Fishbone, and DMAIC to address defects and drive corrective actions.
- Support NCRs, CAPAs, SCARs, operator training, inspector training, yield improvement, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Compensation and Benefits
- Employment Type: Temp-to-Hire.
- Location: North Billerica, MA.
- Pay Rate: $37 to $40 per hour, depending on experience.
- Annual Salary Range: $76,960 to $83,200 per year.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disabled / Protected Veterans
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For temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer, the Company is pleased to offer major medical, dental, vision, 401k and any statutory sick pay where required.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact your staffing representative who will reach out to our HR team.
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