Senior Quality Engineer, Aerospace Transparencies

PPG Industries; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

Dental

Life

Retirement Plan

Paid Vacation & Holidays

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Disability/Leave

Other Voluntary benefit offerings

Job summary

PPG is seeking an Aerospace Transparencies - Senior Quality Engineer in Huntsville, AL to lead customer quality issues and audits, drive cross-functional root-cause investigations, and implement systemic improvements across the product lifecycle.

You will use advanced quality tools, mentor engineers, and partner with design and manufacturing teams to embed quality into processes and decisions. This onsite role reports to the Quality Manager.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience required.
• Eight (8) or more years of aerospace or similar environmental quality engineering experience required.
• 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

8D problem solving

SPC

FMEA

Control Plans

DOE

MSA

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

PPG is seeking an Aerospace Transparencies - Senior Quality Engineer in Huntsville, AL to lead customer quality issues and audits, drive cross-functional root-cause investigations, and implement systemic improvements across the product lifecycle.

You will use advanced quality tools, mentor engineers, and partner with design and manufacturing teams to embed quality into processes and decisions. This onsite role reports to the Quality Manager.