Advanced Quality Engineer
Milwaukee Tool · Brookfield, WI
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Travel
- 20%
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at Milwaukee Tool (industrial) in Brookfield, WI. Throughout a product’s development cycle, this position requires cross-functional communication skills and analytical expertise to help launch new and exciting solutions that meet user needs.
- They ask for
- degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Six Sigma, Control plans, Minitab, Supplier quality
- Day to day
- about 20% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Wisconsin: typical posted base $76k–$106k.
Median of the low and high ends of 12 live postings that list pay, out of 38 quality engineer openings in Wisconsin, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 37 other live quality postings in Wisconsin.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $76k–$106k, from 12 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 61%
- ✓ Supplier quality 47%
- SPC 37%
- FMEA 37%
- ✓ Control plans 37%
- ✓ Six Sigma 34%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: Milwaukee Tool in Brookfield
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- Quality Engineer II · Quality
- Reliability Engineer · Reliability
- Reliability Engineer II · Reliability
Full description from Milwaukee ToolAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
through product specifications and into manufacturing processes.
- ✓Collaborate with US, European, and Asian-based manufacturing and supplier representatives to ensure operational readiness of new product launches
- ✓Ensure manufacturing process stability and capability through the use of advanced statistical methods; including Six Sigma methods, and Ppk and Cpk analysis and interpretation
- ✓Participate in the evaluation and selection of suppliers.
- ✓Able to call, lead and conduct global, cross-functional team members with the following participants: New product development engineering, internal/external operations/suppliers, quality, and supply chain.
- ✓Provide technical guidance to the PRC and US-based supplier quality teams.
- ✓Monitor, investigate, and report field product reviews, utilizing various user feedback data streams to determine overall product health and assess risk of product quality.
Reliability Engineering
requirements
and specifications.
- ✓Support the product design process including benchmarking and testing of concepts & prototypes.
- ✓Develop and execute test procedures to validate product specifications and ensure Quality and Reliability readiness.
- ✓Lead Risk Assessments (Design and Manufacturing) during the product development cycle.
- ✓Perform reliability analysis, using advanced statistical techniques including Weibull, Minitab, and other statistical tools.
- ✓Interpret and present advanced statistical data to a cross-functional team in a concise format.
- ✓Perform failure analysis, and recommend solutions with corrective action, as required.
- ✓Proactively seek out quality improvements for new and existing products.
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor's Degree in Manufacturing, Industrial, Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- ✓Previous experience with Advanced Quality, Quality Engineering and/or Reliability Engineering concepts
- ✓Experience with use of advanced statistical methods and techniques in the Reliability and/or Quality disciplines (including Six Sigma methods, Weibull, Linear Regression, etc)
- ✓Extremely critical thinker, able to evaluate and identify risks in the early product development cycle and able drive projects to mitigate those risks.
- ✓Experience in manufacturing environments is highly preferred.
- ✓Ability to travel 20% of the time.
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Job Description
As an Advanced Quality Engineer for Milwaukee Tool, you will be located at our Corporate & Global Design Headquarters in Brookfield, WI reporting to the Quality Manager. Throughout a product’s development cycle, this position requires cross-functional communication skills and analytical expertise to help launch new and exciting solutions that meet user needs. You will work in a fast-paced environment to innovate new products as a member of a cross-functional team.
Reporting to the Quality Manager provides quality engineering services to cross-functional project teams which include New Product Development, Product Support, and Value Engineering. Primary duties are to lead and direct the advanced quality and reliability activities of project teams to successfully meet Project Quality/Reliability Objectives as well as project goals including Supplier Development, Time-To-Market, Cost, and Performance. Should be able to demonstrate strong problem-solving & critical thinking skills and show proactiveness in executing deliverables.
Quality Engineering
(60%)
- •Work with the global quality teams to develop QC mitigation strategies for high-risk specifications.
- •Coordinate quality planning activities such as auditing, inspection, and control plans (incoming, in-process and outgoing) that drive user need CtQ
(40%)
- •Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to translate customer needs into product