Quality Assurance Engineer III
Nidec · Tennessee
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Yesterday
The role in 30 seconds
A senior quality role at Nidec (industrial) in Tennessee.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Tennessee: typical posted base $80k–$120k.
Median of the low and high ends of 8 live postings that list pay, out of 24 quality engineer openings in Tennessee, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Tennessee plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 23 other live quality postings in Tennessee.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $80k–$120k, from 8 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 50%
- Lean 38%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 38%
- Supplier quality 33%
- ✓ Team leadership 33%
- SPC 29%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention 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 Nidec
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 did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 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.
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Job Summary
Job Description
Additional Job Details
Technical – T3
Knowledge & Experience
- ✓Requires understanding of basic context and practical knowledge of technical and business environment as well as potential and upcoming technical advances within area of specialization, typically obtained through advanced education and relevant experience
- ✓Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec
Work Shift Schedule
First Shift (United States of America)
No Soliciting
Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.
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Organizational Impact
- •Works to achieve operational, functional, and/or business targets within team with direct and indirect impact on departmental or job family results, using practical technical principles
- •Intermediate-level technical contributor; generally works independently under moderate supervision and may seek advice of more senior employees in the same area
- •Failure to achieve results requires allocation of additional resources to meet goals and impacts project completion with the potential for additional financial expense.
- •Works on smaller, less complex projects/assignments
Communication & Influence
- •Communicates with employees typically within the department and/or job family, explaining and interpreting matters related to the department; may communicate with external clients or partners depending upon the job area
- •May influence employees within own job area at an operational level
Innovation & Complexity
- •Responsible for making minor improvements to technical/business processes, procedures, or systems to contribute to the performance of the team
- •Problems faced may be difficult but are not complex, requiring application of technical skills/analysis drawing from prior experiences, and typically involve consideration of multiple issues and impact job family and/or multiple teams
Leadership & Talent Management
- •May provide guidance, help with training and review work of entry-level employees
- •May lead parts of less complex projects or processes