NPI Quality Engineer

Department: Program Management

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, SMC

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain NPI quality plans, control plans, inspection criteria, and quality readiness deliverables.
• Participate in design and process reviews, PFMEA activities, build readiness reviews, and engineering change evaluations.
• Analyze defects, yield, escapes, and quality trends and lead structured root cause and corrective action activities.
• Partner with product, manufacturing, inspection, test, supplier quality, and operations teams to resolve quality issues.
• Support qualification, validation, first article, pilot, and ramp builds to verify product and process requirements are met.
• Define containment and disposition plans for nonconforming material and verify effectiveness of corrective actions.
• Establish quality metrics, acceptance criteria, and escalation thresholds for NPI builds and monitor performance against targets.
• Review drawings, specifications, BOMs, work instructions, and engineering changes for quality risks and control requirements.
• Support failure analysis and corrective/preventive action activities, including verification that actions prevent recurrence.
• Coordinate quality readiness and issue closure with internal teams, suppliers, and customers as required by the program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Quality, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 2+ years of quality engineering, manufacturing quality, or NPI experience preferred.
• Knowledge of quality tools such as PFMEA, control plans, 8D, 5 Why, SPC, MSA, and root cause analysis.
• Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, and inspection requirements and analyze quality data.

Reasons you should work for us:

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• Basic life insurance and short-term disability coverage provided by employer.
• Supplemental life insurance and long-term disability coverage options available.
• 401K with employer contribution.
• Personal, Vacation, and Holiday paid time off for all full-time employees.
• Onsite Aurora Health & Wellness Center available for all employees.
• Employees are continuously encouraged to learn and grow their careers in smart manufacturing.