Manager, Quality Engineering

Novanta Inc.; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Financial benefits

Job summary

Novanta Inc. is seeking a Manager, Quality Engineering in Irvine, CA to lead quality engineering activities, including design control, risk management, and CAPA, ensuring regulatory compliance and product reliability.

You will supervise a quality team, mentor engineers, and drive COPQ reduction while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver high-precision components for medical and manufacturing applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Quality Engineering, Engineering, or related field.
• Extensive experience in quality engineering or related roles.
• Prior supervisory or team leadership experience preferred.
• Strong knowledge of quality systems, regulatory requirements, and statistical tools.
• Proven ability to conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage quality engineering activities including design control, risk management, and validation
• Supervise and coordinate daily activities of quality team members
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and quality management system requirements
• Conduct root cause analysis and drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA)
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve product quality and reliability
• Perform audits and identify areas for process improvement
• Maintain quality records, reports, and trend analysis
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and team members
• Drive cost of poor quality (COPQ) reduction initiatives
• Foster team engagement, development, and retention

Skills

Quality engineering

Team leadership

Regulatory compliance

Statistical tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Quality Engineering or related field

Tools

Quality systems

Job description

Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.

The Manager, Quality Engineering is a blended technical leadership and people management role responsible for ensuring product quality, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement. This position combines the responsibilities of a Senior Quality Engineer with frontline supervisory leadership, driving both engineering excellence and team performance.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and manage quality engineering activities including design control, risk management, and validation
• Supervise and coordinate daily activities of quality team members
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and quality management system requirements
• Conduct root cause analysis and drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA)
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve product quality and reliability
• Perform audits and identify areas for process improvement
• Maintain quality records, reports, and trend analysis
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and team members
• Drive cost of poor quality (COPQ) reduction initiatives
• Foster team engagement, development, and retention

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in Quality Engineering, Engineering, or related field
• Extensive experience in quality engineering or related roles
• Prior supervisory or team leadership experience preferred
• Strong knowledge of quality systems, regulatory requirements, and statistical tools
• Proven ability to conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Travel Requirements

• Less than 10%

Physical Requirements

• Lifting up to 50 pounds
• Standing long periods of time

Compensation and Benefits

• The base pay for this position is $109.500-179,900 per year depending on the geographic market.
• Novanta supports all aspects of your life’s needs. This position provides a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits to make your quality of life better.

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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