Senior Quality Engineer

ITT Cannon, LLC; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ITT Cannon, LLC in Irvine, CA is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality activities across production and new product launches. You will drive containment, root cause analysis, and corrective actions with customers and suppliers, while tracking metrics and improvements.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and adherence to our Quality Management System, with travel up to 20% for audits and supplier visits.

Qualifications

• BS degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of technical industry experience in manufacturing environment.
• Aerospace, Military, or Automotive experience.
• Working knowledge of materials: plastics, metals, elastomers, and metal finishes.
• OEM documentation experience (drawing, specification, router, BOM, parts list, etc.).
• Demonstrated leadership or program management abilities.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word and Outlook, excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Must be proactive approach to planning, organization capabilities, and problem resolution.
• Travel requirement: up to 20% (domestic and international).
• Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor, Certified Quality Manager, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the customer to understand and mitigate Quality concerns and provide appropriate timely responses for actions of containment, root cause analysis, corrective action and effectiveness reviews.
• Read/Interpret and assure Customer requirements are followed and flowed into Supplier Purchase Orders.
• Work directly with Customer to organize on-site visits and/or audits.
• Support production by analyzing problems, recommending, and implementing corrective actions as well as obtaining data to create appropriate metrics and plans for continuous improvement.
• Create, monitor and improve production quality metrics such as first pass yield.
• Lead and teach the multidisciplinary effort to perform Root Cause analysis on internal and external product with timely responses and ensure all corrective actions are validated to prevent recurrence of non-conformances.
• Perform activities of an Internal auditor and create appropriate reports per procedures.
• Act as a Quality representative on the Engineering Change Control Board.
• Lead cultural transformation of quality standards throughout the Production and Quality organization, by adhering to our Quality Management System and through reinforcement of our core values of respect, integrity and accountability.
• Lead creation of Part Acceptance standards for Final Inspection, Assembly and Receiving Inspection areas as well as ensuring these requirements flow down to suppliers.
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Skills

Root cause analysis

Quality data analysis

Leadership

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Gemba/Shop floor presence

Communication

Education

BS degree or equivalent experience

Tools

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

MS Word

MS Outlook

Job description

Senior Quality Engineer

US-CA-Irvine

Job ID: 2026-17312

# of Openings: 1

Category: Quality Control and VBLSS

US-CA-Irvine-2851

Overview

The Senior Quality Engineer will manage tasks related to current production processes, continuous improvement, and daily support with internal and external customers. This role will be a leader in the organization to support of all MRB and RMA activities and appropriate root cause problems solving and improvement to prevent recurrence of customer escapes and internal defects. The Senior Quality Engineer will hold a primary role in the launch of new products by ensuring compliance and readiness by employing Advanced Product Quality Planning techniques.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the customer to understand and mitigate Quality concerns and provide appropriate timely responses for actions of containment, root cause analysis, corrective action and effectiveness reviews.
• Read/Interpret and assure Customer requirements are followed and flowed into Supplier Purchase Orders.
• Work directly with Customer to organize on-site visits and/or audits.
• Support production by analyzing problems, recommending, and implementing corrective actions as well as obtaining data to create appropriate metrics and plans for continuous improvement.
• Create, monitor and improve production quality metrics such as first pass yield. The candidate will make appropriate charts for display, actively participate in daily GEMBA meetings, and lead appropriate improvements
• Lead and teach the multidisciplinary effort to perform Root Cause analysis on internal and external product with timely responses and ensure all corrective actions are validated to prevent recurrence of non-conformances.
• Perform activities of an Internal auditor and create appropriate reports per procedures.
• Act as a Quality representative on the Engineering Change Control Board.
• Lead cultural transformation of quality standards throughout the Production and Quality organization, by adhering to our Quality Management System and through reinforcement of our core values of respect, integrity and accountability.
• Lead creation of Part Acceptance standards for Final Inspection, Assembly and Receiving Inspection areas as well as ensuring these requirements flow down to suppliers
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications

• BS degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of technical industry experience in manufacturing environment
• Aerospace, Military, or Automotive experience
• Working knowledge of materials: plastics, metals, elastomers, and metal finishes
• OEM documentation experience (drawing, specification, router, BOM, parts list, etc.).
• Demonstrated leadership or program management abilities
• Proficiency in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word and Outlook, excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Must be proactive approach to planning, organization capabilities, and problem resolution
• Fostering Teamwork & Diversity; specifically, through proactively soliciting all facts and opinions from team members, creating a constructive and open environment for sharing data.
• Ability to present to members of the leadership team.
• Capable of making best-practice decisions and communicating why certain facts or opinions prevailed over others.
• Travel requirement: up to 20% (domestic and international)
• Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor, Certified Quality Manager, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher preferred

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