Quality Engineering Technician IV

Eaton Corporation; Town of Orchard Park (NY); On-site; USD 63,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation in New York is hiring a Quality Engineering Technician IV. The role supports quality tasks, interfaces with management, operations, and engineering, and may lead multidisciplinary teams to drive issue closure.

Required are technical degrees or significant manufacturing experience, GD&T, APQP, FAI AS9102, and PowerBI/Excel skills. The position emphasizes problem solving, collaboration, and adherence to regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree in a technical discipline or equivalent.
• 2-year degree in a technical discipline with at least 1 year manufacturing experience.
• High School diploma with 5 years related mechanical manufacturing experience.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day quality tasks such as generating production quality metrics, documenting issues, assembling customer data packs.
• Interpret and apply relevant domestic and international regulations and industry standards (ISO, AS, AMS, ASTM).
• Support regulatory inspections, audits, investigations, and inquiries regarding design and manufacturing quality.
• Review adequacy and correctness of changes to procedures, documents, component specifications, FMEAs, and control plans.
• Assist with development of measurement methods and quality requirements for purchased and manufactured products.
• Assist with timely disposition of non-conforming materials and ensure corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Participate in corrective action activities including data and trend analysis for complaints and supplier quality.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Problem Solving

Time Management

Methodical

Attention to detail

Education

4-year degree in a technical discipline

2-year degree in a technical discipline and a minimum of 1 year experience in a manufacturing environment

High School diploma and 5 years related mechanical experience in a manufacturing environment

Tools

PowerBI

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Eaton’s IS AER MSD division is currently seeking a Quality Engineering Technician IV.

The hours for this role are 7am-3:30pm

The hourly rate for this position is $30.50 - $35.50 per hour.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Eaton announced, on June 11, 2026, the intent to combine its Mobility Group (including both the Vehicle and eMobility segments) with a new company. We expect to complete this process by the end of the first half of 2027. The compensation and benefits that will initially be offered for this position are based on Eaton's plans, programs and practices. If you are offered and accept this position and are actively employed by the Mobility Group when the transaction closes, the new company will provide further details to employees concerning compensation and benefits at that time.

What you’ll do:

The Quality Engineering Technician will work closely with Quality Engineering on supporting multiple Integrated Product Teams (IPT). They will be interfacing with other employees including Management, Manufacturing Operations, and Engineering, as well as third party personnel such as Customers, Registrars, and Suppliers (as needed). This position will periodically be called on to help lead multidiscipline teams to assist in bringing systemic issues to closure. This position will work both independently and collaboratively, depending on the issues at hand.

Job Responsibilities

• Support day to day quality tasks such as generating production quality metrics, documentation of issues, assembling customer data packs, support problem investigations, and Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA).
• Interpret and apply relevant Domestic and International Regulations and Industry Standards (e.g., ISO, AS, AMS, ASTM, etc.) when required as part of tasks.
• Support regulatory and agency inspections, audits, investigations, and inquiries regarding the control and assessment of product design and manufacturing quality.
• Review the adequacy and correctness of changes to Procedures, Documents, Component Specification, FMEAs, Control Plans, as applicable.
• Assist with the development of measurement methods and quality requirements for purchased and manufactured product.
• Assist with the timely disposition of non-conforming materials, maintain compliance to necessary regulatory requirements, and ensure adequacy of corrective actions to prevent re-occurrence, as applicable.
• Participate in Corective Action activities, including analysis of data and trends in complaints, supplier quality, nonconforming material, training effectiveness, and root causes analysis.
• Work with suppliers, Management, Engineers, and Manufacturing in the resolution of quality problems.

Qualifications:

Education level required

Education (at least one of the following):

• 4-year degree in a technical discipline
• 2-year degree in a technical discipline and a minimum of 1 year experience in a manufacturing environment
• High School diploma and 5 years related mechanical experience in a manufacturing environment.

• This position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by export laws of the US. In order to be eligible you must be either a US Citizen or Permanent Resident.

Years and area of experience required

• Minimum 1 year experience in a manufacturing environment

Technical knowledge

• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and requirements.
• Basic Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
• Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
• First Article Inspection (FAI) AS9102
• AS9100
• PowerBI
• Experience in problem solving techniques (5 Why, 8D)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel

Skills:

Soft skills

• Communication, Teamwork, Problem Solving, Time Management, Methodical and Organized, Attention to detail

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