Job Title:
Senior Quality Engineer
Job Description:
The Role
Our site in Colorado Springs, CO is seeking an ONSITE Senior Quality Engineer to support our FOUP manufacturing operations. This role will help mature the quality system and process controls required to support an expanding semiconductor manufacturing business and its planned production ramp.
You will work across injection molding, assembly, cleaning, inspection, and final packaging operations to strengthen process discipline, reduce variation, build preventive controls, and ensure products consistently meet internal and customer requirements. The position combines hands-on floor support with development of the quality planning, statistical controls, procedures, training, and reaction systems needed for reliable high-volume manufacturing.
The ideal candidate is an experienced manufacturing quality engineer who can independently lead complex problem solving, influence cross-functional teams, and translate process and product risk into practical controls.
What You'll Do
Own and mature process-control strategies across injection molding, assembly, cleaning, inspection, and final packaging operations.
Develop, implement, and maintain PFMEAs, control plans, process flows, inspection plans, work instructions, sampling plans, and reaction plans.
Establish and improve SPC monitoring for critical product and process characteristics; analyze trends, capability, variation, and defect data to drive preventive action.
Partner with Manufacturing and Process Engineering to define process windows, validate controls, improve error proofing, and strengthen adherence to standard work.
Lead complex investigations involving customer complaints, nonconforming material, internal defects, escapes, and process deviations using structured root cause and corrective-action methods.
Drive containment, corrective action, effectiveness verification, and recurrence prevention through 8D, 5-Why, fishbone, fault-tree, or equivalent methodologies.
Support qualification and manufacturing-readiness activities for new equipment, tools, automation, products, and process changes, including MSA, GR&R, capability studies, and validation documentation.
Build and maintain quality procedures, inspection documentation, acceptance criteria, visual standards, and performance metrics as the FOUP quality system matures.
Conduct layered process audits and quality-system audits across molding, assembly, cleaning, and packaging; identify gaps and partner with operations to close them.
Partner with Operations and Training to strengthen operator qualification, defect recognition, process discipline, and reaction-plan execution during workforce and production ramp.
Provide quality engineering support for product disposition, deviation assessment, change management, and risk-based decision making.
Communicate quality risks, process performance, investigation results, and improvement priorities to leadership, cross-functional teams, customers, and auditors.
Support customer-quality activities, qualification data packages, audits, scorecards, and technical responses as required.
Use data to prioritize improvement projects that reduce defects, scrap, rework, and variation while improving yield, throughput, cleanliness, and customer confidence.
What We Seek
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science, Quality Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Minimum of 5 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; 3 years with a master's degree; or equivalent work experience.
Experience applying quality engineering tools in a manufacturing environment, including PFMEA, control plans, SPC, MSA, GR&R, process capability, root cause analysis, and corrective action.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional investigations and convert data into practical, sustainable process controls.
Experience creating or improving procedures,…