Senior Quality Engineer

Job Description

Ready to own quality strategy at a manufacturing site where no two challenges look the same?

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About the Position:

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We are hiring a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality strategy at our Harlan, Iowa manufacturing site. This newly created role offers the opportunity to assess our current systems, identify gaps, and build a prioritized roadmap for stronger processes, training, and performance. You will support a highly varied operation spanning recurring production and custom projects across metal fabrication, welding, plastics, wire and cable, rail products, and complex assemblies.

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Key Responsibilities:

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• Lead site-level quality strategy, beginning with a comprehensive gap analysis and actionable improvement plan.
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• Drive APQP activities from concept through customer delivery, including PFMEAs, control plans, quality plans, and inspection and test requirements.
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• Lead advanced root cause investigations and corrective actions using tools such as DMAIC, 8D, mistake proofing, Fishbone analysis, and fault tree analysis.
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• Manage process and product qualifications, including capability studies, Gage R&R, statistical analysis, and production controls.
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• Strengthen QMS and ISO 9001 compliance, oversee audit activity, and monitor trends involving rejects, corrective actions, and nonconformances.
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• Coach quality team members, resolve escalations, and partner with production, engineering, suppliers, customers, Sales, and global quality teams.
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Qualifications:

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
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• Five or more years of manufacturing quality experience, ideally in an integrated environment spanning raw materials through final assembly.
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• Practical expertise in APQP, PFMEA, control plans, process capability, statistical methods, and advanced root cause analysis.
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• Strong mechanical aptitude and the ability to interpret engineering drawings, GD&T, weldments, assemblies, and fabrication processes.
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• A systematic, risk-based approach suited to high product, project, and supplier complexity.
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• A Certified Quality Engineer credential, or the willingness to earn one within your first year.
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• Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, Excel, and data-analysis skills.
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This is a primarily plant-based role with approximately 15% travel, generally for supplier visits. We offer health, dental, and life insurance, a 401(k), paid time off and holidays, profit sharing, tuition reimbursement, and relocation support for the right candidate. If you are ready to take ownership, develop people, and build quality systems that last, apply today.