Position Overview
The Quality Engineer III serves as a senior technical resource responsible for strengthening the manufacturing Quality Management System and leading quality engineering activities across production and support functions. The role applies quality engineering methods, supports compliance with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, improves process controls, leads corrective action and continual improvement, and provides daily technical direction to quality technicians and inspection laboratories. The position combines hands-on manufacturing quality expertise with ownership of risk-based quality planning, process auditing, root-cause analysis, control plans, inspection planning, metrology, and quality data analysis to improve product conformity, process capability, customer satisfaction, and sustained QMS performance.
Primary Job Functions
Quality Engineering & QMS Support / ISO 9001 Responsibilities
Quality Management System Support: Participate in and support ISO 9001 quality system & ISO 14001 environmental system processes, procedures, work instructions, forms, and documented information to ensure effective implementation and ongoing compliance.
Process Controls & Risk-Based Thinking: Develop, review, and improve best practice, inspection plans, process controls, and risk mitigation activities to prevent defects and support consistent product conformity.
Corrective Action & Root-Cause Analysis: Lead investigations for internal nonconformances, customer complaints, supplier issues, and audit findings using structured problem-solving tools such as 5 Why, 8D, fishbone diagrams, and corrective action plans.
Audit Readiness & Compliance: Perform, and support ISO 9001 & 14001 internal audits, customer audits, supplier audits, and certification audit activities; verify corrective actions for effectiveness and closure.
Quality Metrics & Continual Improvement: Track, analyze, and report quality performance indicators such as scrap, rework, customer complaints, audit findings, supplier defects, and corrective action status to identify trends and drive improvement projects.
Cross-Functional Quality Leadership: Partner with the Quality Supervisor, production, engineering, purchasing, suppliers, and management to resolve quality issues, implement process improvements, communicate requirements, and promote quality ownership throughout the organization. Provide quality input for product and process changes, recommend containment or escalation when requirements are not met, and support disposition decisions within delegated authority.
Quality Lead, Inspection
Team Coordination: Provide day-to-day technical direction to quality technicians and inspectors; assign and coordinate inspection priorities; support qualification and training; review the completeness and accuracy of inspection work; and escalate staffing, performance, or disciplinary matters to the Quality Supervisor. This role provides functional leadership but does not have direct personnel-management responsibility.
Advanced Inspection & Metrology: Perform inspection as needed, on critical features using CMM, optical comparators, micrometers, calipers, gages, and other precision measurement equipment.
Inspection Planning: Create and maintain inspection requirements, sampling plans, receiving inspection criteria, in-process checks, final inspection requirements, and records needed to demonstrate product conformity.
Calibration Management: Audit and verify our third party calibration services are effectively maintaining the calibration system and processes for measuring and monitoring equipment, to ensure gages are properly identified and controlled, and address out-of-tolerance conditions in accordance with quality procedures.
Documented Information Control: Support control of procedures, work instructions, inspection records, calibration records, nonconformance records, audit reports, and corrective action documentation required by the quality management system…