Quality Engineer
SPX Technologies · Fremont, CA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $100k–$125k
- Experience asked
- 7+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 12 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level quality role at SPX Technologies (industrial) in Fremont, CA. Leads the investigation and communication of investigation results to appropriate functional areas and/or suppliers and coordinates corrective actions as necessary.
- They ask for
- 7+ years
- Tools it names
- Root cause, APQP, ISO 9001, Internal audits, Supplier quality, Assembly lines
- Base pay
- $100k–$125k
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $100k–$149k. This one lists $100k–$125k.
Median of the low and high ends of 89 live postings that list pay, out of 189 quality engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 188 other live quality postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 10% below similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (7+ vs 5+)
Typical $100k–$149k, from 86 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 77%
- FMEA 54%
- ✓ Supplier quality 49%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 46%
- AS9100 43%
- ✓ ISO 9001 39%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Assembly lines, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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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?
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Full description from SPX TechnologiesAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
How you will make an Impact (Job Summary)
SPX is a diverse team of unique individuals who all make an impact. As Quality Engineer, you will responsible for the day to day management and facilitation of our quality systems to ensure (a) the products coming from suppliers meet the required drawing
requirements
and/or standards, (b) products assembled internally and by suppliers and then shipped to customers meet internal and customer functional/quality requirements, and (c) root cause of internal, supplier and customer quality problems are identified, and corrective actions put in place and verified as effective. The position works across all functions to ensure current processes meet the ISO 9001 quality standard.
What you can expect in this role (Job Responsibilities)
While each day brings new opportunities at SPX, your core
requirements
- ✓ISO 9001 Facility coordinator including internal audits, system “Management Representative” and lead person/host of external annual audit
- ✓Manages the system that investigates and resolves internal and customer quality concerns that relate to manufacturing and supplier quality and does so on a timely basis
- ✓Leads the investigation and communication of investigation results to appropriate functional areas and/or suppliers and coordinates corrective actions as necessary
- ✓Develop new approaches to solve problems identified during quality assurance activities
- ✓Provides the customer, directly or through sales, problem solving documentation, e.g. root cause analysis, corrective action, etc.
- ✓Audits corrective actions to ensure sustainability + effectiveness and to avoid problem recurrence
- ✓Maintains a working knowledge of government and industry quality assurance codes and standards
- ✓Oversees gage calibration and management system
- ✓Designs and implements quality assurance training programs to key personnel
What we are looking for (Experience, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Education)
We each bring something to the table, and we are looking for someone who has:
Required Experience
- ✓5-7 years of work experience at a company that does electromechanical or similar assembly
- ✓Minimum of five years directly or indirectly in a quality engineering role at a company that performs electromechanical assembly
- ✓Experience working in with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Outlook
- ✓Must be a U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident as work will be performed in an ITAR facility
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will be
- •Leads the organization to improve overall quality
- •Monitors quality related KPIs. Creates mitigation plans when measures consistently miss target and/or trend negative. Includes supplier score card
- •Keeps upper management team abreast of significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and actions being taken to improve the situation
- •Reviews and reports the status of the Quality Management System to upper management
- •Support the Incoming Inspection and EM in-process inspection and their activities
- •Oversee incoming inspection systems, processes, and infrastructure ensuring practices are consistent, and processes are followed while looking for opportunities for improvement
- •Improve and develop procedures for in-process and final assembly activities
- •Ensure FAI (First Article Inspection) procedures and policies are met and followed for design and supplier changes as well as new product launches
- •Responsible for the containment and disposition of defective parts and assemblies. This includes responsibility for the MRB (Material Review Board) to ensure timely and proper disposition of rejected products
- •Provide inspection support when needed by performing receiving, in-process, and final inspections when needed. Be the authority on quality for these operations teams
- •Lead Supplier Quality
- •Supports purchasing in maintaining both supplier manual and supplier score cards and provides input to both
- •Performs supplier audits for new suppliers and when appropriate, for existing suppliers
- •Supports purchasing in supplier selection to ensure high quality and capable suppliers chosen
- •Use supplier quality history to work with supplier’s to improve performance and prevent future quality problems
- •Perform APQP with suppliers on new parts to ensure proper understanding of prints, designs are manufacturable to the desired quality levels, key characteristics are identified and more
- •Notify suppliers of rejects and issues SCARs and supplier chargebacks where appropriate
- •Performs quality engineering and partner with EM to be an engineering liaison between Ops and Engineering to ensure documentation such as prints, assembly instructions, test/inspection instructions meet minimum acceptable
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- +Prior Management experience in Quality Engineering or Leadership at an electro-mechanical manufacturing company
- +Experience in the manufactur