Contract Quality Engineer – Manufacturing Excellence

Kelly Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom; Santa Isabel (PR); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Part time

Job summary

Kelly Engineering is seeking a Quality Engineer on a contract basis for a manufacturing client located in Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. The role focuses on developing and maintaining quality systems, testing plans, and process control documentation to ensure product conformance.

Responsibilities include PFMEA/MSA risk management, PPAP acceptance, and driving continuous quality improvements across programs and suppliers. Fluency in English and Spanish is preferred for effective customer interaction.

Qualifications

• Experience in quality roles within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience dealing with external customers and strong customer focus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word).

Responsibilities

• Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains quality evaluation, control systems and protocols for materials being processed into partially finished or finished products.
• Working with product design and specification, devises testing plans, methods and equipment to assure reliability of product.
• Collaborates internally to ensure quality standards are in effect.
• Ensures that projects and process control documentation are compliant with requirements, objectives and/or contracts.
• Identifies and manages risk in product development primarily utilizing and driving UPPAP core elements (e.g. PFMEA, MSA, Process Flow and Control Plans, etc.).
• Responsible for ensuring continuous improvements in product quality, customer and supplier scorecards, and supplier quality.
• Develops proactive quality initiative strategies and drives their implementation.
• Performs Escape management procedures, root cause analysis, and recommends corrective action for design problems for internally produced products & processes.
• Ensures all requirements are met for work transfer and process change management, including Resourcing Gate and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) acceptance.
• Designs and implements product engineering changes to satisfy quality issues raised by customers.
• Responsible for both Program and Product Quality Engineering.
• Responsible for development of new inspection technologies or methodologies to assure product conformance.

Skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving

Customer focus

English and Spanish communication

Education

BS degree in Engineering

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

Job description

Kelly Engineering is seeking a Quality Engineer on a contract basis for a manufacturing client located in Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. The role focuses on developing and maintaining quality systems, testing plans, and process control documentation to ensure product conformance.

Responsibilities include PFMEA/MSA risk management, PPAP acceptance, and driving continuous quality improvements across programs and suppliers. Fluency in English and Spanish is preferred for effective customer interaction.