Sr Associate, Quality Engineer
L3Harris · Clifton, NJ
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $73k–$136k
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Certification
- Green Belt preferred
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 23 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior quality role at L3Harris (aerospace & defense) in Clifton, NJ. By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that L3Harris Technologies may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience) · Green Belt preferred
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, Green Belt, Kaizen, 5S, Root cause
- Base pay
- $73k–$136k
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in New Jersey: typical posted base $110k–$140k. This one lists $73k–$136k.
Median of the low and high ends of 7 live postings that list pay, out of 18 quality engineer openings in New Jersey, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
New Jersey plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 17 other live quality postings in New Jersey.
- Base pay
- About 22% below similar roles
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 8+)
Typical $114k–$155k, from 6 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 8+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 56%
- ✓ Six Sigma 39%
- ISO 9001 33%
- Supplier quality 33%
- ✓ Lean 28%
- ✓ AS9100 22%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Kaizen, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at L3Harris
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
- How does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
- The posting mentions a Green Belt. Does the company sponsor certification?
- 4
Apply with someone vouching for you
If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
This plant: L3Harris in Clifton
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Full description from L3HarrisAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
are met. This includes ensuring/verifying the quality of product inputs and outputs. A successful Quality Engineer should have excellent analysis skills and communication skills to work with customers, leadership, engineers and peers in a variety of work engagements.
Essential Functions
- ◆Lead or support continuous improvement activities to enhance the quality system, such as root cause analysis, Zero Defect Plan (ZDP), 8D, 5S, Kaizen, lean methods, Six Sigma, etc.
- ◆Provide quality support to development teams on software, systems, hardware and aeronautical engineering programs to facilitate proper implementation of product and process policies, methods, and operating practices.
- ◆Leverage investigative & problem-solving tools, techniques and methods to identify corrective and preventive action opportunities and drive continual improvement.
- ◆Perform quality audits and assessments to assure compliance with customer, company, and regulatory
requirements
in support of CMMI, AS9100 and the Quality Management System.
- ✓Monitor and report audit findings and determine proper corrective and preventive actions with the process owner and leadership.
- ✓Attend Agile team meetings and observe Agile practices to ensure compliance with defined company processes and industry practices for SAFE, DEVOPS and LeanAgile.
- ✓Witness product verification and validation procedures including systems, software and aeronautical engineering per documented test procedures and criteria.
- ✓Frequent contact with internal and external customers at various levels and participation in meetings and activities.
- ✓Occasional night and/or weekend work may be required. Occasional weekend on-call duty is required.
Required Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.
- ✓Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Demonstrated knowledge of quality assurance / quality control concepts, tools and methodologies
- ✓Demonstrated experience with lean methodologies such as; 8D, Six Sigma/Lean Green Belt, Kaizen, etc.
- ✓Demonstrated experience in technical writing for reporting or process purposes.
- ✓Demonstrated experience engaging internal and/or external customers at various levels.
- ✓Demonstrated Agile, SAFe and Lean Agile process experience a plus.
- ✓Experience in engineering, or aviation industry a plus.
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L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.
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