Senior Quality Engineer: NPI & Risk Leader

Amphenol Communications Solutions; Yocumtown (PA); Sur place; USD 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, seeks a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality planning, risk management, and manufacturing controls from concept to production. You will drive CTQ, DFMEA/PFMEA, and APQP activities across programs and sites, mentoring teams and coordinating with design, process, and supplier partners.

The role emphasizes strong analytical skills, experience with MSA, SPC, and quality systems, and the ability to communicate across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Five to eight years of progressive quality engineering, manufacturing quality, development quality, NPI quality, supplier quality, customer quality, or related technical experience
• Demonstrated experience leading NPI quality planning, APQP, qualification, FMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, capability analysis, FAI, corrective action, and production readiness activities
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, GD&T, technical procedures, professional standards, customer requirements, and applicable regulations
• Ability to write clear technical reports, qualification plans, procedures, audit findings, risk assessments, customer communications, and executive-level status updates
• Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity, work with minimal supervision, influence cross-functional decisions, escape risks early, and lead difficult technical issues to closure
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers, suppliers, managers, engineers, technicians, and global manufacturing representatives
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required to support customers, suppliers, development programs, manufacturing sites, and process ramps
• Ability to proactively manage risk and quality through verified closure, influence with data, solve complex problems innovatively

Responsabilités

• Lead quality planning and risk management from concept and feasibility through EVT, DVT, PVT, production release, launch, and sustaining production
• Own quality risk visibility and provide fact-based go, conditional-go, or no-go recommendations at program and production readiness reviews
• Define quality deliverables, qualification tasks, ownership, timing, and acceptance criteria that support time-to-market objectives
• Serve as the trusted quality advisor to Design, Product Engineering, Process Engineering, Manufacturing, Reliability, Supply Chain, Program Management, suppliers, and customers
• Lead Voice of the Customer capture and translation into measurable product, process, qualification, reliability, and compliance requirements
• Ensure end-to-end traceability from VOC and specifications through CTQ/CTF identification, DFMEA, PFMEA, Process Flow, Control Plans, inspection plans, validation, and production monitoring
• Lead quality planning activities including APQP, qualification planning, PPAP where applicable, FAI, workmanship standards, metrology planning, and change control
• Represent Quality in customer reviews, audits, assessments, escalations, and corrective action discussions
• Lead and facilitate DFMEA, PFMEA, risk assessments, and control strategy reviews; challenge assumptions and drive meaningful risk reduction
• Ensure critical and special characteristics are identified, flowed down, measured, controlled, and supported by capable processes and measurement systems
• Evaluate product, process, supplier, material, tooling, test, and engineering changes for quality and reliability impact
• Capture lessons learned and institutionalize preventive controls across future programs, products, and sites
• Plan, perform, review, and interpret MSA, Gage R&R, SPC, Cp/Cpk, Pp/Ppk, Cmk, DOE, hypothesis testing, regression, sampling, and trend analysis
• Analyze yield, cycle time, throughput, defect, reliability, supplier, and customer data to identify variation, systemic risk, and improvement priorities
• Define inspection methods, measurement requirements, capability expectations, and escalation criteria for critical product and process characteristics
• Use Minitab, Excel, Power BI, QMS data, and approved AI-enabled analytics to improve decision quality and execution efficiency
• Lead complex cross-functional investigations using 8D, DMAIC, 5-Why, Fishbone, Fault Tree, Pareto, and other structured methods
• Ensure containment protects the customer while root cause analysis addresses the verified technical and systemic causes
• Approve and verify corrective and preventive actions, effectiveness checks, recurrence prevention, and lessons-learned deployment
• Drive improvements that reduce customer escapes, defects, scrap, rework, cost of poor quality, and launch risk
• Support and improve the Quality Management System and applicable ISO 9001, customer-specific, statutory, regulatory, and internal requirements
• Lead or support product, process, system, supplier, and customer audits; ensure findings are addressed and effectiveness is verified
• Develop and maintain procedures, work instructions, quality standards, checklists, templates, and governance processes
• Promote disciplined documentation, data integrity, configuration control, and audit readiness
• Mentor and develop Quality Engineers, technicians, and cross-functional team members in quality tools, risk-based thinking, and prevention methods
• Develop and deliver advanced training on FMEA, Control Plans, APQP, MSA, SPC, root cause analysis, qualification, and quality systems
• Lead through initiative, influence, innovation, ownership, accountability, and organizational impact without requiring direct authority
• Standardize and scale best practices, reusable tools, digital methods, and lessons learned across programs and manufacturing sites
• APQP, PPAP, VOC, CTQ/CTF, DFMEA, PFMEA, Process Flow, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, FAI, CAPA, reliability, risk management, auditing, and quality systems
• DOE, capability analysis, sampling, hypothesis testing, regression, root cause analysis, Lean, Six Sigma, and data visualization
• Minitab or equivalent statistical software; Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Power BI; QMS, ERP, and MES applications

Connaissances

Quality engineering

APQP

FMEA

MSA

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Quality/Manufacturing

Outils

Minitab

Power BI

QMS

Description du poste

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, seeks a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality planning, risk management, and manufacturing controls from concept to production. You will drive CTQ, DFMEA/PFMEA, and APQP activities across programs and sites, mentoring teams and coordinating with design, process, and supplier partners.

The role emphasizes strong analytical skills, experience with MSA, SPC, and quality systems, and the ability to communicate across