Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Your Job

As a Manufacturing Quality Engineer, you will establish and maintain quality activities that ensure quality requirements are met and continuously improved. You will identify critical processes and drive compliance through analysis, reviews, audits, inspections, testing, and metrics to maintain system capability and control.

Our Team

You will partner with crossfunctional stakeholders across Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, EHS, and Operations to strengthen quality system performance, support customer requirements, and enable continuous improvement across the site.

What You Will Do

• Lead internal, external, and thirdparty audit execution and closeout to site requirements (e.g., ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO 14001, and siteapplicable OH&S standard)
• Establish and maintain effective root cause analysis and closedloop corrective action processes across quality databases, ensuring timely resolution and verification of effectiveness
• Develop, analyze, and present criticaltoquality (CTQ) data and quality metrics to senior leaders and crossfunctional stakeholders
• Ensure customer requirements are understood and met through structured investigation, corrective action planning, and implementation oversight
• Deploy and enable quality tools and methodologies (e.g., 8D, 5Why, FMEA, Control Plans, 7 QC Tools) to drive continuous improvement across departments
• Oversee change management review activities to ensure requirements are identified, documented, validated, and sustained
• Maintain and improve Quality Management System (QMS) and Environmental, Health & Safety management system documentation and controls
• Support team objectives through participation in meetings, goal setting, training development, and process improvement initiatives
• Review highreliability orders to ensure Certificate of Conformance (C of C) and data summary requirements are met and appropriately documented
• Complete additional assignments and special projects as directed by the department supervisor

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or 5-10 years of professional quality assurance experience (combination preferred)
• Experience supporting quality in manufacturing environments (laboratory exposure also valued)
• Strong working knowledge of quality management principles, audits, corrective action, and continuous improvement
• Advanced capability with statistical quality tools (e.g., SPC, Cpk, DOE) and datadriven decision making
• Ability to read and interpret technical procedures, work instructions, and engineering specifications; capable of producing clear technical documentation
• U.S. Citizen or lawful permanent resident (required); able to travel 0-5% as needed

What Will Put You Ahead

• Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) and/or Certified Auditor of Quality (CAQ)
• Handson experience leading audits and sustaining compliance to AS9100 and environmental/health & safety management standards
• Proficiency using precision measurement instruments (calipers, micrometers, optical comparators) and translating results into actionable quality improvements
• Strong familiarity with calibration system requirements (e.g., ANSI/NCSL Z5401) and auditready documentation discipline

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are
With a strong legacy of engineering excellence, Smiths Interconnect, a Molex company, is part of Molex's Aerospace & Defense Solutions Division and represents the Signal Technologies business unit. Smiths Interconnect delivers missioncritical connectivity solutions-including ruggedized connectors, cable assemblies, Fiber & RF, and highreliability technologies-designed to perform in the most demanding environments. From aerospace and defense to space, medical, and industrial applications, our innovative products enable reliability where it matters most. Join a passionate, global team helping shape the future of highreliability interconnect solutions.

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).