Senior Quality Engineer

• ◆Provide day-to-day Quality Engineering support for assigned Chaska products, manufacturing areas, and value streams.
• ◆Lead and support investigations of internal and customer quality issues, including containment, root-cause analysis, corrective action, effectiveness verification, and closure.
• ◆Coordinate and support Quality Notifications (QNs), material review activities, product disposition, and risk assessments. This will require working cross-functionally with Operations, Customer Service, Materials, Tooling, and other functions as appropriate.
• ◆Partner directly with Manufacturing and Engineering to identify recurring defects and process variation and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• ◆Apply structured problem-solving and statistical methods to manufacturing and quality issues, using tools such as FMEA, SPC, capability analysis, Pareto analysis, MSA/Gage R&R, process mapping, and 8D/root-cause methodologies.
• ◆Support customer complaint investigations and help develop technically sound, timely responses and corrective-action packages.
• ◆Participate in and support customer, internal, and quality-system audits.
• ◆Support change management activities, including risk assessment, manufacturing change reviews, validation and qualification activities, and quality documentation.
• ◆Develop, review, and maintain quality-related documentation such as inspection methods, control plans, risk assessments, specifications, and other process-control documentation.
• ◆Support new product introduction and product/process changes through FMEAs, control plans, measurement strategies, validation/qualification activities, and data analysis.
• ◆Use manufacturing and quality data to identify adverse trends and proactively drive improvements in product quality, process capability, defect reduction, and customer performance.
• ◆Work with Operations and Engineering to strengthen process controls and prevent defects rather than relying exclusively on inspection or containment.
• ◆Participate in continuous-improvement activities and cross-functional projects that improve quality, delivery, cost, and manufacturing effectiveness.
• ◆Serve as a technical Quality resource for engineers, technicians, inspectors, manufacturing leaders, and operators.
• ◆Mentor less-experienced engineers and help build structured problem-solving capability across the organization.

Traits we believe make a strong candidate

• ◆Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex quality investigations from initial containment through sustainable corrective action.
• ◆Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
• ◆Comfortable working directly on the manufacturing floor and collaborating with operators, technicians, engineers, and leadership.
• ◆Ability to balance urgent production/customer needs with longer-term systemic improvements.
• ◆Strong technical judgment and an ability to make risk-based decisions using data.
• ◆Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical quality issues to different audiences.
• ◆Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to influence without relying solely on formal authority.
• ◆A proactive mindset with an interest in preventing defects and improving processes rather than simply responding to failures.
• ◆Ability to manage several priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

• ✓Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline.
• ✓Approximately 5 or more years of relevant Quality Engineering or closely related manufacturing engineering experience.
• ✓Experience in a manufacturing environment.
• ✓Demonstrated experience with root-cause analysis, corrective action, risk assessment, and structured problem solving.
• ✓Experience applying core quality tools such as FMEA, SPC, MSA/Gage R&R, control plans, process capability, and statistical analysis.
• ✓Experience working with cross-functional manufacturing and engineering teams.
• ✓Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

• ✓Experience in high-purity, semiconductor, medical device, aerospace, automotive, or another technically demanding manufacturing environment.
• ✓Experience with ISO 9001 or a comparable regulated quality-management system.
• ✓Experience with customer complaints, 8D methodology, CAPA, MRB, and change control.
• ✓Working knowledge of SAP, EtQ or another electronic QMS, Minitab, and Camline or comparable SPC/data-analysis systems.
• ✓Experience supporting manufacturing processes such as injection molding, extrusion, machining, assembly, or other polymer/plastics manufacturing