Senior Quality Manager
Smiths Group · Elmwood Park, NJ
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Preferred
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 5 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management quality role at Smiths Group (industrial) in Elmwood Park, NJ. Coordinate, participate and lead continuous improvement efforts in collaboration with Production.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree preferred
- Tools it names
- Root cause, SPC, PPAP, AS9100
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 9, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in New Jersey: typical posted base $114k–$155k.
Median of the low and high ends of 13 live postings that list pay, out of 23 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 22 other live quality postings in New Jersey.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (5+ vs 8+)
Typical $110k–$147k, from 11 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 8+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 70%
- Six Sigma 39%
- Supplier quality 35%
- New product launch 30%
- ✓ AS9100 30%
- Internal audits 26%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for PPAP, 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 Smiths Group
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.
This plant: Smiths Group in Elmwood Park
2 other open roles at this site.
- Production Supervisor · Production · Supervisor
- Manufacturing Engineer · Manufacturing
Full description from Smiths GroupAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
as supplied by internal procedure, customer or industry standards
- ✓Corrective Actions
- ✓Maintain root cause and corrective action system that eliminates duplicate nonconformance by effectively implementing corrective actions
- ✓Process Control
- ✓Implement tools necessary to ensure process control and comply with customer
requirements
such as PPAP, standard work, SPC, KPC, etc
- ✓Continuous Improvement
- ✓Coordinate, participate and lead continuous improvement efforts in collaboration with Production
- ✓Other
- ✓Any other tasks, duties or
responsibilities
requested by your supervisor
- ◆Manage data collection, analysis and reporting of quality data such as rework, scrap and cost of quality
College degree preferred, at least 5 years quality experience in manufacturing
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