Senior Quality Engineer - Aerospace Transparencies

PPG; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

PPG in Huntsville, AL seeks a Senior Quality Engineer to lead preventive quality engineering and customer quality across the product lifecycle. You will drive robust corrective actions, lead root cause investigations, and mentor quality engineers in cross-functional teams.

You will apply AS9100, FAA, and EASA requirements, develop dashboards and KPIs, and partner with design and manufacturing to embed quality into processes. This onsite role reports to the Quality Manager.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline.
• Eight or more years aerospace or similar environmental quality engineering experience.
• Six Sigma, CQE, or similar certifications are preferred.
• Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary quality engineering lead for customer quality issues, complaints, and audits.
• Leads cross-functional root cause investigations and drives containment, corrective, and preventive actions using structured methodologies (e.g., 8D).
• Ensures corrective actions address true systemic and process causes, verify effectiveness, and embeds lessons learned into standard work.
• Applies advanced quality tools (SPC, FMEA, Control Plans, DOE, MSA) and analyzes quality data to identify trends and risks.
• Partners across functions implement sustainable process improvements and represent quality requirements in design, change, and failure reviews.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and data-driven insights to support leadership decision-making and customer communication.
• Acts as a senior technical influencer, mentoring quality engineers and driving outcomes through expertise rather than authority.

Skills

Root cause analysis

Data-driven decision making

Customer quality

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

SPC

FMEA

Control Plans

DOE

MSA

Job description

PPG in Huntsville, AL seeks a Senior Quality Engineer to lead preventive quality engineering and customer quality across the product lifecycle. You will drive robust corrective actions, lead root cause investigations, and mentor quality engineers in cross-functional teams.

You will apply AS9100, FAA, and EASA requirements, develop dashboards and KPIs, and partner with design and manufacturing to embed quality into processes. This onsite role reports to the Quality Manager.