Senior Quality Engineer - Expanded Beam Optics

About the role

The Senior Quality Engineer will own quality governance and manufacturing performance for Expanded Beam Optics (EBO) products, ensuring that quality requirements, control plans, risk registers, and metrics stay current across sites and regions. This role leads issue resolution, drives continuous improvement, and supports global customer challenges.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and support manufacturing quality improvement, root‑cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Maintain the EBO product quality baseline, including critical‑to‑quality characteristics, known risks, acceptance criteria, and quality requirements.
• Govern global product‑level control plans, inspection expectations, and defect classification standards.
• Maintain the EBO product quality risk register across customer, manufacturing, metrology, application, and design risks.
• Lead periodic product quality reviews using data from customers, manufacturing locations, and failure analysis.
• Support global quality triage when Menomonie production is involved and standardize quality dashboards, defect library, and reporting.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, or manufacturing.
• At least three years of experience in product and manufacturing quality, including advanced quality planning, process controls, and risk management.
• Three years of experience leading quality improvement activities such as PFMEA, control plans, change impact assessments, root‑cause analysis, corrective actions, SPC, and process capability.
• Experience with optical products, connectors, electronics, precision assembly, or high‑reliability manufacturing is a plus.
• Strong cross‑functional leadership and ability to work with engineering, manufacturing, customer quality, site quality, and metrology teams.

Required skills

• Advanced quality planning (PFMEA, control plans)
• Statistical Process Control (SPC) and process capability analysis
• Root‑cause analysis and corrective action implementation
• Risk register maintenance and risk management
• Defect classification and quality dashboard creation
• Proficiency in Mandarin (optional)