Quality Engineer Battery Manufacturing
BlueWave is hiring a Quality Engineer Battery Manufacturing for a major manufacturing client in Glendale, Kentucky. This role will support the launch of a new battery manufacturing operation, with responsibility for ensuring quality systems, measurement infrastructure, testing equipment, and quality documentation are ready for production.
This is a hands-on launch role for an engineer who can bridge quality systems, metrology, laboratory equipment, manufacturing quality, and problem solving.
Responsibilities
- Support APQP readiness for new product and manufacturing launches
- Develop and coordinate PPAP documentation and launch-quality deliverables
- Support control plans, inspection methods, sampling strategies, and safe-launch procedures
- Develop offline inspection work instructions and first-article acceptance criteria
- Own specification, procurement, commissioning, and validation of offline quality-testing equipment
- Perform Measurement System Analysis (MSA), including Gauge R&R
- Establish calibration requirements and ensure measurement traceability
- Conduct correlation studies between inline inspection systems and offline measurement methods
- Support selection and implementation of quality and laboratory equipment
- Define quality-lab layouts, equipment placement, workflows, utility requirements, and environmental controls
- Establish lineside incoming and process-quality inspection stations
- Support installation, commissioning, calibration, and validation of quality equipment
- Establish incoming and in-process quality-control methods, sampling plans, testing requirements, and acceptance criteria
- Perform failure analysis and root-cause investigations on manufacturing quality issues
- Apply structured problem-solving methodologies including 8D, 5-Why, fishbone, and fault-tree analysis
- Analyze process capability using Cpk/Ppk and recommend corrective actions
- Support pre-launch production trials and manufacturing-quality signoffs
Preferred Experience
- Manufacturing Quality Engineering
- Battery or advanced manufacturing
- New product or manufacturing-line launches
- APQP and PPAP
- Measurement System Analysis (MSA) and Gauge R&R
- Metrology and calibration systems
- Process capability analysis, including Cpk/Ppk
- Incoming and in-process quality control
- Root-cause analysis and corrective action
- Quality-lab or testing-equipment commissioning
- Experience with laboratory equipment such as CMMs, CT scanners, tensile/peel testing equipment, SEMs, moisture analyzers, or similar manufacturing-quality equipment
Employment Type: Contract position, 100% on-site in Glendale, Kentucky.
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