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Senior Advanced Quality Engineer - Manufacturing

Honeywell · North Carolina

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Level
Senior
Team
Quality
Travel
30%
Degree
Required
Experience asked
7+ years
Certification
Black Belt preferred
Industry
Industrial
Posted
Yesterday

The role in 30 seconds

A senior quality role at Honeywell (industrial) in North Carolina. In this role, you will improve the quality and reliability of HSS products by ensuring customer, regulatory, statutory, and Honeywell requirements are translated into effective controls.

They ask for
7+ years · degree required · Black Belt preferred
Tools it names
Lean, Six Sigma, Root cause, FMEA, ISO 9001, AS9100
Day to day
about 30% travel

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About the role

requirements

are translated into effective controls. You will lead structured problem solving, use data to identify systemic opportunities, and drive corrective and preventive actions that reduce defects, escapes, warranty exposure, and cost of poor quality.

Key Responsibilities

  • ◆Lead quality planning and execution for HSS products and processes, including new product introduction, change management, production, and post-delivery support.
  • ◆Ensure compliance with the applicable quality management system, customer requirements, engineering specifications, and industry standards, including ISO 9001 and AS9100 where applicable.
  • ◆Lead root cause and corrective action activities using structured methods such as 8D, 5 Why, fault-tree analysis, and other Six Sigma tools; verify effectiveness and prevent recurrence.
  • ◆Analyze quality data and performance trends, including customer escapes, defects, warranty, scrap, rework, and cost of poor quality; translate findings into prioritized improvement plans.
  • ◆Facilitate risk-based assessments such as FMEA and control-plan reviews to identify and mitigate product and process risks.
  • ◆Partner with Engineering and Operations to establish inspection, test, validation, and acceptance criteria that support capable and stable processes.
  • ◆Support internal, customer, registrar, and regulatory audits; address findings and sustain audit readiness.
  • ◆Collaborate with suppliers and Supplier Quality to resolve material and component issues, improve supplier capability, and strengthen incoming quality performance.
  • ◆Serve as a quality representative in cross-functional reviews, customer communications, and escalation forums; communicate status, risk, containment, and recovery plans clearly.
  • ◆Coach and mentor colleagues on quality tools, standards, problem solving, and prevention-focused decision making.
  • ◆Drive continuous improvement using Lean Six Sigma and Honeywell operating-system principles.
  • ◆Travel 20-30% domestically or internationally as business needs require.

You Must Have

  • ✓Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Engineering, Quality, Science, Technology, or a related technical discipline.
  • ✓7+ years of progressive experience in aerospace quality engineering, quality systems, manufacturing quality, design quality, supplier quality, or a related regulated-industry role.
  • ✓Working knowledge of AS9100, ISO 9001, applicable aerospace regulatory requirements, and customer-specific quality requirements.
  • ✓Experience leading quality management system governance, internal and external audits, nonconformance management, and corrective and preventive action across multiple sites or business units.
  • ✓Demonstrated ability to lead complex root cause investigations using structured methods such as 8D, 5 Why, fault-tree analysis, and Lean Six Sigma tools.
  • ✓Experience using quality metrics, statistical analysis, and trend data to identify systemic risk, establish priorities, and drive measurable improvement.
  • ✓Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, contractual quality clauses, and regulatory

requirements

and translate them into effective controls.

  • ✓Strong executive communication, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills in a global matrix organization.
  • ✓Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and deliver measurable results in a fast-paced global matrix environment.
  • ✓Strong analytical, organizational, facilitation, and project-management skills.
  • ✓Proficiency with Microsoft Office, quality data systems, dashboards, and enterprise tools such as SAP.
  • ✓Ability to travel domestically and internationally to support sites, suppliers, customers, and audits.
  • ✓Eligibility to access ITAR-controlled information, products, and technology and to obtain and maintain any required U.S. government authorization.

ITAR Specific

Requirements

  • ✓Must be a U.S. Person, as defined by applicable U.S. export-control laws and regulations, or otherwise eligible to obtain and maintain any U.S. government authorization required for access to ITAR-controlled technical data, defense articles, or defense services.
  • ✓Demonstrated understanding of ITAR compliance obligations, including access restrictions, technical-data controls, export authorization, secure handling, and prevention of unauthorized exports or deemed exports.
  • ✓Ability to identify, mark, store, transmit, discuss, and dispose of ITAR-controlled technical data in accordance with approved company procedures and authorized systems.
  • ✓Experience incorporating export-control

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Join a team recognized for leadership, innovation and diversity

The future is what we make it. When you join Honeywell, you become a member of our global team of thinkers, innovators, dreamers, and doers who make the things that make the future. Working at Honeywell is about developing solutions that improve safety, reliability, productivity, and sustainability while creating dynamic career opportunities across different fields and industries.

As a Senior Quality Engineer within Honeywell Industrial Automation’s HSS business, you will apply deep quality-engineering expertise to improve product and process performance, strengthen compliance, and enhance customer satisfaction. You will partner with Engineering, Operations, Sourcing, Supplier Quality, Product Management, and other functions to identify risk, resolve complex quality issues, and embed prevention-based practices across the product life cycle.

You will report directly to our Director, Quality Control Engineering and work out of our Charlotte, NC location on a hybrid work schedule, and may consider other locations within the HSS ISC sites (Boyne City, MI and Richardson, TX). For the first 90 days, New Hires must be prepared to work 100% onsite, Monday-Friday.

In this role, you will improve the quality and reliability of HSS products by ensuring customer, regulatory, statutory, and Honeywell

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