Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Title: Senior Quality Engineer
Location: Elgin
Shift: 1st Shift
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Pay Rate: $90,000–$110,000 (based on experience)
Location: Elgin
Shift: 1st Shift
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Pay Rate: $90,000–$110,000 (based on experience)
Full Benefits
We're hiring a Senior Quality Engineer for an innovative, fast-growing technology manufacturer specializing in advanced electronic components used across multiple industries. This is a high-impact, highly visible role where you’ll have the opportunity to shape quality strategy, lead cross-functional initiatives, and directly influence product performance and customer satisfaction. If you’re looking to step into a leadership-driven engineering role with autonomy, technical depth, and strong career growth potential, this is an excellent opportunity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead quality strategy initiatives, ensuring compliance with global regulatory standards (RoHS, REACH, Conflict Minerals)
- Evaluate and enhance testing processes including DVT, HALT, and reliability testing methodologies
- Lead root cause analysis efforts, including customer failure investigations and supplier corrective actions (SCARs)
- Drive product quality improvements through specification analysis and engineering change initiatives
- Evaluate and collaborate with suppliers to ensure quality standards and resolve defects at the source
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related technical field
- 5+ years of experience in quality engineering, process engineering, or similar roles
- Strong experience with failure analysis, metrology, and reliability testing (HALT/HASS)
- Knowledge of global compliance standards (RoHS, REACH, Conflict Minerals)
- Experience with data analysis tools such as Minitab, JMP, or similar
- Proficiency with CAD software (SolidWorks, AutoCAD, or similar) preferred
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Elgin, 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
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- AutoCADunmatched
- CAD (Computer-Aided Design) Softwareunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Customer Satisfactionunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Electrical Componentsunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Failure Analysisunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Metrologyunmatched
- Minitabunmatched
- Process Engineeringunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Quality Assuranceunmatched
- Quality Assurance Methodologyunmatched
- Quality Engineeringunmatched
- Quality Metricsunmatched
- Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)unmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Reliability Testingunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- SolidWorksunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
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