Quality Engineer

· Provide day-to-day leadership support to Quality Auditors, Quality Technicians, Torque Specialists, and other assigned hourly employees, including setting expectations, coordinating priorities, and maintaining effective production support coverage.

· Assign and schedule inspection, audit, containment, and quality support activities to meet production needs, project deadlines, and defined specifications.

· Coach, train, and develop hourly quality employees to strengthen technical capability, consistency, accountability, and adherence to standard work.

· Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, failure analysis, and corrective and preventive action implementation for production quality issues.

· Ensure adherence to quality standards across internal manufacturing processes and external suppliers.

· Manage and report on quality performance metrics, identify trends, and lead continuous improvement initiatives while translating findings into clear priorities for the hourly quality team.

· Own and support quality processes for new product development, including production start-ups, tool validation, inspection readiness, and supplier certification.

· Develop and maintain inspection and testing processes, equipment requirements, inspection criteria, quality procedures, and work instructions that support process validation and issue containment.

· Coordinate with suppliers and internal partners to inspect, contain, and address defective materials or components as needed.

· Support implementation of organizational quality initiatives, quality control policies, and best practices.

· Ensure compliance with safety standards and promote a clean, organized, and safe work environment.

· Manage assigned quality activities within approved budget parameters.

· Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Engineering, Operations, or related field required.

· 3 years of experience in quality, process engineering, or a related field preferred.

· Experience in automotive or similar assembly manufacturing environments preferred.

· Proven ability to provide direct front-line leadership or supervision to a group of hourly employees in a manufacturing environment, including work assignment, scheduling, coaching, and development.

· Knowledge of process improvement and quality methodologies, Kaizen, PFMEA, control plans, quality management systems and print reading.

· Experience conducting root cause analysis, product or process failure analysis, and implementing corrective and preventive actions.

· Strong communication, leadership, organization, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance technical engineering work and daily people-support responsibilities.

· Ability to work effectively in a manufacturing environment with significant plant-floor presence and respond to changing production priorities.

· Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% based on business needs.

· This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

To qualify for this position, former employees must be eligible for rehire, and current employees must be in good standing.

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At Polaris we put our employees first, by offering a holistic approach to their health and financial wellbeing. Polaris is proud to offer competitive compensation, including a market-leading profit-sharing plan that is fundamental to our pay-for-performance culture. At Polaris, employees are owners of the company through company contributions to our Employee Stock Ownership Plan and discounted employee stock purchases plan. Employees receive a generous matching contribution to 401(k), financial wellness education and consultation to plan for their financial future. In addition to competitive pay, Polaris provides a comprehensive suite of benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, wellness programs, paid time off, gym & personal training reimbursement, life insurance and disability offerings. Through the Polaris Foundation and our Polaris Gives paid volunteer time off, we