Staff Process Quality Engineer

As a Staff Process Quality Engineer, you will

• Manufacturing process quality and control: Establish and improve process controls, quality plans, inspection strategies, and monitoring methods to prevent defects and consistently meet manufacturing requirements.
• Performance monitoring and corrective action: Analyze manufacturing and quality data for trends, variation, and emerging risks. Lead root cause analysis and corrective action for significant or recurring process and product quality issues.
• Process capability and continuous improvement: Use statistical and quality tools to assess process capability, reduce variation, improve yield, and sustain improvements. Lead Kaizen and continuous improvement activities at the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt level.
• New product and process introduction: Partner with Engineering and Manufacturing to identify quality risks early and establish controls, validation, measurement methods, and acceptance criteria before production release.
• Quality systems and governance: Support corrective and preventive action (CAPA), internal and external audits, Quality Steering Team activities, and other quality management processes to ensure compliance and operational alignment.
• Cross-functional leadership: Provide quality leadership across Manufacturing, Manufacturing Process Engineering, Design Engineering, and Operations. Facilitate problem solving and data-driven decisions.
• Customer-focused quality: Connect manufacturing performance to product quality and customer experience. Use internal and field quality information to identify prevention and improvement opportunities.
• Quality capability building: Serve as a subject matter expert and mentor for engineers, technicians, and manufacturing teams in problem solving, statistical methods, process control, and quality tools.

Who you are and the experience you bring

• BS degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline.
• 7+ years of quality or manufacturing engineering experience in a high-technology or complex manufacturing environment.
• Strong experience in manufacturing process quality, process capability, and statistical process control.
• Experience leading structured problem solving and corrective action using 8D, DMAIC, 5 Why, root cause analysis, or similar methods.
• Experience in New Product Introduction and manufacturing process qualification or validation.
• Working knowledge of Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Control Plans, Measurement System Analysis (MSA), and statistical methods.
• Experience applying Lean and Six Sigma to manufacturing process improvement.
• Ability to analyze quality and manufacturing data, identify trends, and turn findings into practical actions.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills, including influencing teams without direct authority.
• Ability to balance immediate production quality needs with longer-term systemic improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop others in quality engineering tools and problem solving.

Preferred experience that differentiates you

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Electromechanical products and complex assembly and test processes.
• GD&T, measurement systems, and process capability analysis.
• Working within an ISO 9001 quality management system.
• Developing or improving manufacturing quality metrics and process controls.

• Location: Hanover, New Hampshire
• Travel: Up to 10%