Quality Engineer

Guided Search Partners; Leetsdale (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading executive search firm is seeking a Quality Engineer for a high-performance manufacturing site in Allegheny County. You'll be responsible for key quality engineering activities, including inspection and documentation, ensuring product integrity where performance matters. The team values hands-on problem solvers and rewarding long-term careers in a culture built on accountability and teamwork. This role offers a chance to contribute significantly as the company grows and diversifies across markets.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in quality within manufacturing.
• Strong background in First Article and nonconformance handling.
• Familiarity with quality management systems like IATF 16949.

Responsibilities

• Own quality engineering activities across inspection and documentation.
• Lead First Article work and nonconformance handling.
• Support inspection execution using precision measurement tools.

Skills

Quality engineering

Inspection methods

GD&T

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Tools

CMM

Micrometers

Gauges

Job description

Guided Search Partners (GSP) Executive Search firm built on Trust, Transparency, Specialization, and Long-term Relationships. We connect high-performing professionals with organizations that value people, performance, and growth—helping leaders find roles where they can make an impact and build meaningful careers.

About the Opportunity

We’re partnering with a long-standing manufacturer of high-performance polymer components—known for complex geometry, tight tolerances, and parts that are critical to the systems they support. The business has grown meaningfully in recent years and is actively diversifying across markets (including aerospace/defense and medical) while continuing to support automotive programs.

This Quality Engineer opening comes at an important transition point. The site has a tenured Quality Technician retiring at year-end and a Quality Engineer moving to another location—creating urgency for overlap and knowledge transfer. The team is also scaling quality capability to match growth and future capacity, including potential near-term expansion.

This environment fits someone who likes technical work, clear standards, and a culture built on work ethic and teamwork—low politics, low bureaucracy, and high accountability.

What You’ll Do

• Own core quality engineering activities across inspection, documentation, and problem-solving in a tight-tolerance manufacturing environment.
• Lead First Article work, nonconformance handling, and customer/submission-related quality documentation as needed.
• Read and interpret prints with GD&T and translate requirements into inspection plans and methods.
• Support inspection execution using tools like CMM, micrometers, gauges, drop gauges, and related measurement systems.
• Improve measurement reliability—supporting gauge strategy and working to strengthen gauge R&R results.
• Contribute to quality system practices (IATF 16949; AS9100 / ISO 9001 environment) through procedure/document support and consistent execution.
• Partner closely with engineering and operations to resolve issues and prevent recurrence.

Who You Are

You’re hands‑on, dependable, and you follow through—especially when problems show up. You can walk up to a print, understand how it should be inspected, and communicate clearly with operators and engineers. You’re team‑first, direct, and comfortable in a culture where results and work ethic matter more than titles.

Preferred Experience & Attributes

• Experience in quality within manufacturing; plastics experience is a plus.
• Strong inspection background: First Article, nonconformance, inspection methods, and print reading.
• Comfortable with GD&T and measurement tools; CMM exposure/programming is a plus.
• Familiarity with quality management systems and documentation (IATF 16949 / AS9100 / ISO 9001 exposure preferred).
• Fixturing or gauge/measurement fixture design experience is a strong plus.
• Strong work ethic, strong teamwork mindset, and willingness to jump in when needed.

Why This Role Matters

This role protects product integrity in applications where performance matters and tolerances are tight. You’ll help preserve critical tribal knowledge through overlap with experienced team members while also strengthening the site’s quality capability as the business grows and invests in new capacity. If you want a place where your work is noticed, your effort matters, and people tend to build long careers, this team is built for that.

Reporting Structure

• Reports to: Quality Manager
• Partners closely with: Engineering, Operations, and cross‑functional leadership