Industrial Quality Engineer: Continuous Improvement & NPI

ManpowerGroup; Sussex (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ManpowerGroup is assisting an industrial manufacturing client in Sussex, WI to hire a Quality Engineer. The role focuses on ensuring quality, reliability, and ISO 9001 compliance across manufacturing operations and cross-functional teams.

The position requires 3–7 years in quality engineering, experience with electrical control panels, and strong root-cause analysis skills using 8D, 5 Whys, Fishbone, and DMAIC. Expect involvement in APQP, PFMEA, and control plans.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or higher required or equivalent technical training.
• Bachelor's degree in Industrial/Manufacturing/Electrical/Quality preferred.
• 3–7 years of quality engineering in manufacturing with ISO 9001 experience.
• Strong ability to interpret blueprints and electrical schematics and apply quality tools.
• Experience with APQP, PFMEA, control plans and KPI reporting (FPY, DPM, scrap, rework, COPQ).

Responsibilities

• Ensure quality, reliability, and compliance of industrial control panel assemblies throughout manufacturing.
• Maintain and strengthen ISO 9001 quality systems and related procedures, work instructions, inspection standards, and control plans.
• Monitor processes to verify compliance with drawings, schematics, wiring diagrams, BOMs, and customer specs.
• Lead corrective actions and CI efforts by investigating defects, complaints, returns, and field failures.
• Support product/process validation activities including NPI, engineering change management, APQP, PFMEA, and first article approval.

Skills

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Blueprint interpretation

Quality tools

Education

Associate degree or higher

Bachelor's degree preferred in Industrial/Manufacturing/Electrical/Quality

Job description

ManpowerGroup is assisting an industrial manufacturing client in Sussex, WI to hire a Quality Engineer. The role focuses on ensuring quality, reliability, and ISO 9001 compliance across manufacturing operations and cross-functional teams.

The position requires 3–7 years in quality engineering, experience with electrical control panels, and strong root-cause analysis skills using 8D, 5 Whys, Fishbone, and DMAIC. Expect involvement in APQP, PFMEA, and control plans.