Manufacturing Quality Engineer
Howmet Aerospace · Cleveland, OH
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Certification
- Black Belt preferred
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at Howmet Aerospace (aerospace & defense) in Cleveland, OH. ALCOA® Wheels are highly engineered products operating in challenging environments with significant product liability risk and wide diversity of end use applications ranging from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks to commercial and military vehicles.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required · Black Belt preferred
- Tools it names
- Lean, Root cause, PPAP, APQP, ISO 9001, IATF 16949
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Ohio: typical posted base $90k–$130k.
Median of the low and high ends of 7 live postings that list pay, out of 63 quality engineer openings in Ohio, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 62 other live quality postings in Ohio.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 5+)
Typical $90k–$130k, from 6 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 62%
- ✓ PPAP 48%
- ✓ ISO 9001 46%
- Supplier quality 43%
- FMEA 41%
- ✓ APQP 37%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: Howmet Aerospace in Cleveland
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Full description from Howmet AerospaceAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
(All references to customer within this document shall apply to internal & external customers).
- ✓Responsibility as a liaison between all Howmet Aerospace Cleveland Flowpath manufacturing processes and the customer.
- ✓Responsible for monitoring and improving the quality of our operational process and products with a strong understanding of quality tools to ensure compliance with the IATF16949.
- ✓Provide support to Howmet Aerospace external providers for incoming product issues and problem-solving techniques such as 8D, 7 Step, 5 WHY Principle, etc. and continuous improvement development as driven from Howmet’s quality management systems and customer requirements.
- ✓Communicates with all levels of personnel within the organization. Supervision of quality personnel as assigned. Provide assistance as needed to the Quality manager role in his absence.
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree (BS) from an accredited university
- ✓Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
- ✓This position is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) which requires U.S. person status. ITAR defines U.S. person as an U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Bachelors degree in Quality, Materials or Manufacturing Engineering; MBA preferred.
- ✓Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a Quality management or supervisory role located in a manufacturing environment.
- ✓Knowledge of Quality Management Systems such as IATF16949 o
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Howmet Aerospace is searching for a Quality Engineer to join our Howmet Wheel Systems (HWS) business unit in Cleveland, OH.
Howmet Aerospace (NYSE: HWM) creates breakthrough products that shape industries. Working in close partnership with our customers, we solve complex engineering challenges to transform the way we fly, drive, and power. Through the ingenuity of our people and cutting-edge advanced manufacturing techniques, we deliver these products at a quality and efficiency that ensure customer success and shareholder value.
Howmet Wheel Systems (HWS) is a business unit with a rich tradition and a bright future. We invented the forged wheel in 1948 and have remained the global leader in providing safe, strong, lightweight, and innovative aluminum transportation products ever since. ALCOA® Wheels are highly engineered products operating in challenging environments with significant product liability risk and wide diversity of end use applications ranging from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks to commercial and military vehicles. HWS employs 1,700 people at 14 locations worldwide and produces over 4 million aluminum wheels globally with annual sales more than $800 million.
Our customers trust us to deliver a wide range of great looking and dependable products that improve fuel economy and increase payload to address their customer’s business needs. Our Commercial Vehicle Wheel products lead the world in market innovation and truck, trailer, and bus customers recognize our LvL ONE®, Dura-Bright® and Ultra ONE® wheels as the current innovative products in this market.
With direction from the Quality Manager
- •Applies the quality strategy and vision as defined for the organization.
- •Implements and improves the Quality System in accordance with IATF16949, customer requirements, and all its functions throughout the organization.
- •Supports the quality responsibility to existing and new products and their related processes to meet customer
Major Activities & Key Challenges
- •Responsible for support of Cleveland Forge Flowpath for closure to all customer issues, concerns, and requests.
- •Drives & implements the Quality Policy, develops, documents and maintains an
effective Quality System in accordance with IATF16949 and customer requirements.
- •Executes against goals, objectives and measurables for reviewing and monitoring the effectiveness of the Quality Management System.
- •Drives organizational improvement through reporting of the performance of the Quality System and quality issues (i.e. non-conformance, Cpk, audit results, corrective & preventive action, customer rejections, etc.) to management for use as a basis for continuous improvement. Attend daily and weekly meetings accordingly.
- •Applies knowledge in quality systems to drive disciplined systems and robust processes, and focused standardization of best practices; in conjunction with managing to a cohesive set of key performance metrics that provide objective insights into the health and effectiveness of our business operating system.
- •Manages risk mitigation and containment utilizing industry standards, while collaborating with the corporate legal, commercial, manufacturing and support teams to quickly resolve open customer and manufacturing issues typically with specific and broad legal implications for Cleveland Flowpath.
- •Supports APQP and launches of new wheel programs including prototype, FAI, MFS, and all PPAP elements as required.
- •Strong working knowledge of Quality Management Systems such as ISO9001, IATF16949 and the ability to work with supply base to continuously improve their systems resulting in improved product/service quality and reduced cost. Provide support to the supplier management process as needed.
- •Provide training and development programs to support product and process quality, productivity, continuous improvement and safety performance.
- •Provide quality support for the evaluating, testing, analyzing, dispositioning, and improvements from warranty returns as applicable to Cleveland Forge process.
- •Utilizes Lean Manufacturing techniques to elevate the Quality culture of the plant while
leading employee engagement teams with focus on customer Satisfaction, First Pass Yield, Scrap and rework reduction
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