Senior Quality Engineer – Aerospace & Continuous Improvement

Timken; Keene (NH); On-site; USD 79,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & vision

401(k) match

Paid holidays

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Employee discounts

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development

Job summary

Timken in Keene, NH is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead cross-functional teams, resolve quality issues, and drive continual improvements to ensure product conformance and customer satisfaction.

The role focuses on implementing QMS procedures, leading 8D investigations, and coordinating ISO9001/AS9100 compliance, with hands-on use of CMMs, gage R&R studies, and measurement tooling to enhance process capability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Science/Engineering or related field.
• 2+ years experience in quality systems and procedures in an Aerospace or manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of ISO9001 and AS9100 requirements for quality systems.
• Strong leadership and problem solving ability.

Responsibilities

• Program, troubleshoot, and maintain plant digital gaging including CMMs, roundness gages, and profilometers.
• Drive all elements of 8D techniques to investigate root cause analysis, perform effective corrective action and prevent recurrence of significant quality issues and customer complaints.
• Lead efforts to resolve and eliminate internal nonconformances.
• Create and analyze process capability studies, machine capability studies, gage R&R studies to identify opportunities for systemic improvement in quality and cost.
• Lead project activity and cross functional teams to execute continuous improvement plans to agreed-upon goals and budget.
• Implement the Operator Quality Certification program within the area, including assessing, training and mentoring of the operators.
• Support L6S teams, Kaizen events as requested through consultation, analysis and trials.
• Assist in third party audit preparation and execution as requested, ISO9001, NADCAP, Customer, etc. This can include work instruction audit or revision, floor auditing, best practice research and training.
• Write and revise Quality Management System procedures for use through-out the organization. Maintain the QMS documentation to ensure compliance to the applicable regulations and requirements .Oversee internal audits, assist internal auditors and document CAR/PAR’s as necessary.
• This individual may generate and/or handle regulated (i.e. hazardous/non-hazardous) waste as part of this job. This must be disposed of in accordance with federal/state regulations.

Skills

Quality Systems

Aerospace/Manufacturing

Lean Six Sigma

Root cause analysis

AS9100 knowledge

ASQ Certification

Education

Bachelor degree in Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

CMMs

Roundness gauges

Profilometers

Job description

Timken in Keene, NH is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead cross-functional teams, resolve quality issues, and drive continual improvements to ensure product conformance and customer satisfaction.

The role focuses on implementing QMS procedures, leading 8D investigations, and coordinating ISO9001/AS9100 compliance, with hands-on use of CMMs, gage R&R studies, and measurement tooling to enhance process capability.