Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Title: Quality Engineer
Location: Buffalo Grove, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $90k-$110K/YR.
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), PTO, Paid Holidays, Career Growth Opportunities
Sterling Engineering is seeking a senior-level Quality Engineer IV to lead quality initiatives across manufacturing, engineering, suppliers, and customers. This position plays a critical role in driving continuous improvement, reducing defects, improving manufacturing processes, and ensuring customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate has a strong background in quality systems, root cause analysis, lean manufacturing, and New Product Introduction (NPI) within an industrial manufacturing environment.
Job Duties:
- Lead customer quality investigations, including containment, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and customer communication.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives utilizing 8D, DMAIC, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, DOE, SPC, MSA, and statistical analysis.
- Support APQP, PPAP, FMEA/PFMEA, Control Plans, and process validation activities.
- Lead quality planning and support New Product Introduction (NPI) from concept through production launch.
- Analyze quality data, KPIs, COPQ, scorecards, and business intelligence tools to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
- Support supplier quality, warranty, field quality, rework, and manufacturing issue resolution.
- Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Customers to improve product quality and manufacturing performance.
- Implement error-proofing and process improvements to reduce waste and improve efficiency.
- Mentor Quality Engineers and provide technical guidance on complex quality issues.
- Support ISO 9001 compliance and quality management system initiatives.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related technical field preferred.
- Minimum of 8 years of quality engineering experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
- Candidates without a degree may qualify with 10+ years of relevant quality experience, including at least 4 years in a customer-facing quality role.
- Strong experience with customer quality, quality systems, and manufacturing process improvement.
- Must have knowledge of 8D, DMAIC, A3, FMEA/PFMEA, APQP, PPAP, SPC, MSA, DOE, Control Plans, Lean Manufacturing, and Root Cause Analysis.
- Must have Experience with ISO 9001, ERP/MES systems, digital Quality Management Systems (QMS), and Business Intelligence tools.
- Lean Practitioner, Six Sigma Green Belt, or equivalent experience preferred.
- Strong communication, leadership, and project management skills.
- Ability to travel up to 10% as needed.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Buffalo Grove, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $90,000–$110,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- 8Dunmatched
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)unmatched
- Business Intelligence Softwareunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Customer Satisfactionunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)unmatched
- ISO 9001unmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Lean Manufacturingunmatched
- Lean Six Sigmaunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)unmatched
- Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
- Manufacturing Systemsunmatched
- Manufacturing/Industrial Processesunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA)unmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Process Validationunmatched
- Product Supportunmatched
- Product/Service Launchunmatched
- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)unmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Proofreadingunmatched
- Quality Assuranceunmatched
- Quality Engineeringunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- Scorecardingunmatched
- Six Sigma DMAICunmatched
- Six Sigma Green Beltunmatched
- Statisticsunmatched
- Supply Chain Operationsunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Trend Analysisunmatched
- United States Department of Energy (DOE)unmatched
- Validation Planunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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