The Senior Quality Engineer is responsible for leading and overseeing quality assurance activities to ensure the consistent production of conforming products in accordance with applicable industry standards, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications. This role serves as a key technical authority within the Quality Management System (QMS), providing independent decision-making, cross-functional leadership, and direct interface with customers, suppliers, and auditors.
The Senior Quality Engineer drives continuous improvement initiatives, leads root cause investigations, and ensures effective implementation of corrective and preventive actions. This position requires advanced knowledge of quality systems, manufacturing processes, and inspection methodologies, along with the ability to influence organizational performance and ensure compliance across all operations.
Primary Responsibilities
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Serve as a quality interface between the organization and customers, ensuring requirements are understood, flowed down, and effectively implemented.
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Provide technical leadership in root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization.
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Maintain and improve the Quality Management System, ensuring compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001, ISO17025, Nadcap and applicable regulatory/statutory/customer requirements such as REACH, RoHS, and Conflict Minerals.
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Lead internal audits and support external audits, including customer and regulatory audits.
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Provide advanced support for new product introduction, including APQP, FMEA, control plans, and validation activities.
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Serve as a mentor and technical resource for quality engineers, inspectors, and cross-functional teams.
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Ensure effective integration of quality requirements into manufacturing, inspection, and testing processes.
