Lead Quality Engineer
Middlesex, NC
Pay: $74.94/hr
The Lead Quality Engineer will serve as a technical leader responsible for driving product and process quality performance across assigned value streams, products, customers, and suppliers. The Lead Quality Engineer will deploy requirements, tools, and advanced quality methodologies to prevent defects, improve customer satisfaction, reduce cost of non-conformance, and support operational excellence. The Lead Quality Engineer will provide technical guidance to Quality Engineers and cross-functional teams while leading problem-solving, quality planning, risk mitigation, customer support, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Lead Quality Engineer Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with applicable customer, regulatory, and industry standards, including AS9100, ISO 9001, customer-specific requirements, and internal procedures
- Support audits, assessments, and corrective action activities
- Deploy APQP methodologies and support PPAP submissions and approvals
- Ensure adequate control plans, PFMEAs, inspection methods, validation activities, and launch readiness requirements are established and maintained
- Support manufacturing process capability improvements through SPC, mistake-proofing, and variation reduction initiatives
- Lead investigation of customer complaints, escapes, and returns
- Drive containment, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive actions
- Facilitate structured problem-solving activities utilizing 8D, 5 Whys, fishbone analysis, Pareto analysis, etc.
- Partner with supplier quality and supply chain teams to improve supplier performance
- Act as a subject matter expert for quality systems, tools, and customer requirements
Lead Quality Engineer Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- 5+ years of experience in manufacturing, quality engineering, supplier quality, or related technical role
- Experience working within a regulated quality management system environment
Lead Quality Engineer Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within aerospace manufacturing
- Experience with AS9100 and/or ISO 9001
- APQP and PPAP deployment experience
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher
- ASQ-certified Quality Engineer (CQE)
- Internal Auditor or Lead Auditor certification
- Experience utilizing program management tools and advanced problem-solving methodologies
Hunter Recruiting provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
