Engineer, Quality Engineer
Honda · Greensboro, NC
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Preferred
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at Honda (automotive) in Greensboro, NC. Pull, push, carry, lift, or move items up to 15 lbs.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree preferred
- Tools it names
- Robotics, SAP
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in North Carolina: typical posted base $96k–$143k.
Median of the low and high ends of 21 live postings that list pay, out of 57 quality engineer openings in North Carolina, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
North Carolina plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 56 other live quality postings in North Carolina.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 5+)
Typical $96k–$143k, from 20 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 60%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 42%
- New product launch 40%
- Lean 37%
- FMEA 35%
- Six Sigma 33%
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This plant: Honda in Greensboro
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Full description from HondaAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Key Accountabilities
- ◆Prepare, analyze, and communicate recurring quality and compliance data using tool such as SAP, Business Objects, Excel, and standard presentation formats to support business reviews, leadership decision-making, and corrective action management.
- ◆Serve as a divisional subject matter lead for SAP quality-related processes, system access, SharePoint administration, and digital workflow support to ensure effective use of business systems and compliance with role-based access controls.
- ◆Identify, generate, coordinate, and support process improvement initiatives that improve efficiency, reduce waste, strengthen compliance, and enhance quality performance across the division.
- ◆Support core Quality Engineering duties, support audit readiness, lead or participate in audits, and coordinate division-level business planning inputs related to headcount, operating expense, and capital expense needs.
Qualifications, Experience, and Skills
- ✓Minimum Educational
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in engineering or other related field of study preferred
- ✓Minimum Experience :2 years’ minimum of Quality Engineering experience or other related field
- ✓Other Job-Specific Skills
- ✓Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, with emphasis on Excel, including pivot tables formulas, charts, and data manipulation
- ✓Working knowledge of SAP, Business Objects, or comparable ERP/reporting tools
- ✓strongly preferred
- ✓Ability to interpret quality data and communicate trends clearly
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Job Purpose
The purpose of this role is to support the company’s quality, compliance, and operational performance objectives by combining Quality Engineering expertise with Industrial Engineering methods, data analytics, SAP/business systems administration, financial coordination, and process improvement leadership to enable effective decision-making, maintain regulatory and internal compliance, and drive continuous improvement across the division.
Key Performance Indicators
- •Ability to provide reliable, complete, and timely reports for quality, compliance, corrective action, financial planning, and leadership review activities.
- •Effectiveness in tracking, communicating, and supporting closure of overdue corrective actions and compliance-related issues.
- •Contribution to improved efficiency, compliance, cost control, and operational effectiveness through projects, system improvements, and cross-functional coordination.
Working Conditions
- •Incumbents may be routinely exposed to equipment operational noise heat-cold-dust, and/or aircraft equipment, parts, or fuel odors.
- •Incumbents may be required to stand, sit, squat, walk, bend, move, reach, or stretch for prolonged time periods with no restrictions, as required by job duties.
- •Read, hear, speak, and see with no restrictions, as required by job duties.
- •Pull, push, carry, lift, or move items up to 15 lbs. throughout the work shift without assistance, as required by job duties.
- •Pull, push, carry, lift or move materials/people/items/equipment weighing up to 50lbs or more during the work shift, with the use of Company provided “reach assistance technology” or “movement assist technology” (fork-lifts, pallet jacks, pulleys, dolly’s, robotics reach equipment, people movers etc.), as required by job duties.