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An innovative aerospace technology company developing high-reliability communication systems for space and airborne platforms is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead continuous improvement initiatives across engineering and manufacturing operations.

This role is ideal for a hands-on quality leader who combines Lean, Six Sigma, and structured problem-solving methodologies to drive measurable operational impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify improvement opportunities and implement root cause countermeasures
• Lead Kaizen events and cross-functional process improvement initiatives
• Develop and execute Value Stream Mapping (VSM) roadmaps aligned with business objectives
• Champion Lean and Six Sigma principles across engineering and manufacturing teams
• Mentor and develop internal Lean practitioners
• Conduct machine capability (CmK) and measurement system (GR&R) studies
• Support AS9100 / ISO9001 audits and QMS compliance activities
• Develop and track performance metrics to drive operational excellence

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Engineering or related field preferred)
• 5+ years of experience in quality engineering or continuous improvement within a manufacturing environment
• Experience working within AS9100 or ISO9001 Quality Management Systems
• Proven experience leading Kaizen events and eliminating waste
• Strong background in Root Cause Analysis, Lean, Six Sigma, and Value Stream Mapping
• Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills

Preferred

• Aerospace or high-reliability electronics manufacturing experience
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
• AS9100 / ISO auditor experience

General Summary

As a member of the Manufacturing Engineering group at Penumbra, you will be called upon to solve complex problems and implement innovative solutions. You will provide manufacturing technology and robust solutions aimed at commercializing new products and continuously improving production processes. Working cross-functionally with engineering groups across the company, as well as with Production, Quality Control and Quality Assurance, you will resolve problems encountered on the production floor and throughout the business, and will apply your engineering knowledge and creativity to implement adaptations and modifications to the production line and to quality systems.

What You'll Work On

•Solve complex problems and implement innovative solutions

•Execute detailed root cause analysis and recommend vetted solutions

•Communicate and explain problems and solutions cross-functionally and inter-departmentally

•Collaborate closely with suppliers, ensure timely communication of updates, and respectfully request any necessary changes.

•Manage NCRs, deviations, engineering change orders, and supplier documentation while utilizing a Quality Management System to ensure continuous improvement and compliance.

•Engage in the troubleshooting of electromechanical products by employing failure analysis and problem-solving techniques, while also recommending and implementing effective solutions.

•Lead the implementation of projects at the supplier level, managing communications related to test plans, monitoring project timelines, and ensuring all milestones are met efficiently.

•Approach problems from a detail-oriented perspective

•Suggest independent recommendations for project approach, scope, and tactics

•Support production needs

•Create and maintain product and process documentation

•Monitor process and equipment performance and identify and implement process improvement activities to increase/optimize yield

•Design fixtures, acquire off-the-shelf tooling and equipment, and implement new fixturing on the production line

•Test processes, equipment, raw materials, and product

•Perform process validations

•Author protocols to execute tests and write reports and make conclusions and/or recommendations based on test results

•Plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate detailed phases of engineering work as part of a project or as a total project

•Develop specifications of a product, process, or piece of equipment

•Develop, characterize, and optimize processes using statistical techniques and engineering knowledge and experience

•Coordinate with the appropriate suppliers and other external resources needed in developing and implementing process improvement plans

•Participate in project planning and scheduling

•Train assemblers, quality control and technicians, as necessary, on processes, equipment, and documentation

•Comply with quality system regulations, standards and procedures

* Indicates an essential function of the role

Location and Pay

•Alameda, CA

•$95,000 to $127,000

Position Qualifications

Minimum education and experience:

•Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Biomedical, Electrical, Chemical, Materials, or Industrial Engineering or related degree with 2+ years relevant engineering experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Additional qualifications:

•Engineering experience in a manufacturing environment recommended, medical device industry preferred

•Experience in troubleshooting and working with electromechanical devices

•Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills required

•Knowledge of FDA regulations, Lean/Flow Manufacturing, and/or materials and manufacturing processes desired

•Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and other computer applications required

•Supplier audits, risk management (FMEA, DFMEA, PFMEA), lean manufacturing/six sigma, equipment qualification

Working Conditions

•General office, laboratory, and clean room environments.

•Willingness and ability to work on site.

•Business travel from 0% - 10%

•Potential exposure to blood-borne pathogens.

•Requires some lifting and moving of up to 25 pounds.

•Must be able to move between buildings and floors.

•Must be able to remain stationary and use a computer or other standard office equipment, such as a printer or copy machine, for an extensive period of time each day.

•Must be able to read, prepare emails, and produce documents and spreadsheets.

•Must be able to move within the office and access file cabinets or supplies, as needed.

Director of Quality & Reliability

Los Angeles, CA

My client is a bleeding edge Deep Tech company working in one of the most exciting sectors around and they are looking for a Director of Quality and Reliability to oversee organizational quality, hardware reliability, and design assurance.

The ideal candidate will have experience in a hardware production environment and understand that controls need to be built directly into production processes.

This role will require you to constantly ask “what is the right way to do this” and never settle for “how has it always been done.”

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Work directly with engineering, production and operation in a hardware-focused fashion to streamline builds while reducing variation and non-conformances.
• Support other departments as they develop and implement their quality requirements and procedures; drive accountability and enforcement to process owners.
• Own and manage internal quality program, ensuring full compliance with applicable standards while maintaining a lean program.
• Manage the corrective action program to identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and prevent recurrence of quality issues.
• Foster and drive a positive QA culture across all teams.
• Continuously evaluate and improve the quality system by analyzing data, identifying trends, and leveraging lessons learned to enhance QA processes.
• Own the evaluation and disposition of deviations from quality requirements.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, physics, or related technical discipline.
• 10 years of related technical experience (engineering design, quality, reliability, production) in a manufacturing environment.
• Direct responsibility for owning or implementing quality assurance requirements. (ISO 9001, AS9100, IATF 16949 etc.).
• Experience in management leading a team and interfacing with executives; comfortable negotiating resources and responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.

Desired Skills and Qualifications:

• Familiarity with continuous improvement methodologies, such as Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma, within a QA framework.
• Experience in auditing suppliers and/or source inspection at supplier facilities.
• Familiarity with the Code of Federal Regulations or ASME certification processes.

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Position Summary

Responsible for gaining new business and growing National Accounts. This role drives new product placements within select national chains, collaborating with business partners in Product Management, Marketing, Research & Development, and Culinary areas. The manager develops robust customer plans focused on creating value for both the customer and the company, achieving both short- and long-term goals, and manages broker relationships as needed.

Essential Job Functions

• Identify, develop, and manage national account relationships—including developing deep relationships with customers in R&D, Purchasing, and Marketing, conducting customer ideation sessions, capabilities presentations, and quarterly business reviews (50%).
• Develop and implement a customer-centric planning process that creates distinctive and sustainable value for both customers and the company (20%).
• Generate timely communications of activities, call reports, and pre-call planners (15%).
• Effectively manage budget, program, and pricing elements (15%).
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business, Marketing, or a related field, or four years of related work experience.
• Five years of sales experience selling to national accounts (food industry).
• Two years of Nielsen Product Analysis experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s in Business Administration (MBA).

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs)

• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve customer issues.
• Ability to identify complex problems, review information, develop and evaluate options, and implement solutions.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills, including the ability to create clear and concise presentations.
• Ability to build professional relationships and negotiate with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure, meet deadlines, present a professional demeanor, and work well independently.

Environmental/Working Conditions

• Able to travel up to 50% of the time, including overnight stays for up to five days at a time.

Physical Requirements

• Usual office environment with frequent sitting, walking, and standing, and occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and balancing.
• Frequent use of eye, hand, and finger coordination for office machinery.
• Oral and auditory capacity for interpersonal and automated communication.
• Able to stand for at least four hours.
• Can regularly lift and move 30-pound boxes or buckets and repeatedly twist, turn, kneel, stoop, stand, rotate, bend, push, or pull to move 30 pounds.

Description of Role:

• Responsible for ensuring manufactured/supplied products meet or exceed standards of quality, reliability, and performance. develop, implement, and manage quality control systems designed to ensure continuous production of FXC/Guardian materials and applications, consistent with established standards and customer specifications. Supervise and mentor a team of quality control inspectors. This is a hands-on position. Improving and reviewing new specifications and procedures for products or processes and conduct training with inspection personnel. Assist in establishing the requirements for raw materials from suppliers and monitoring their compliance. Ensure compliance with company quality policy, vision, and mission statements. This position reports to the Quality Assurance Manager.

Job Requirements:

• Ensure a high level of internal and external communication with customers. Investigate and correct customer issues and complaints relating to quality control and quality assurance.
• Supervise workers engaged in inspection and testing activities to ensure high productivity with high technical integrity.
• Develop and analyze statistical data and product specifications to determine standards and to establish quality and reliability expectancy of finished products.
• Coordinate government source inspection activity, call for source after product have been inspected internally.
• Establish data for first pass yields for receiving inspection, inspection and test, track production inspection escapes and report results to the ERP and to the QA Manager.
• Coordinate process control activities with quality engineers
• Provide technical and statistical expertise to teams.
• Formulate, document, and maintain quality control standards and company quality control objectives.
• Coordinate objectives with production procedures in cooperation with other managers
• Create, document, and implement inspection criteria, workmanship, and procedures for QC.
• Inspecting the final output, comparing it to the requirements, and approving or rejection the final product to include the shipping process.
• Maintain documented information of inspection outputs, nonconformity, customer returns and document results.
• Conduct product investigation, CAPA and provide results to quality assurance manager
• Give quality control input to contract review activity
• Interpret quality control philosophy to key personnel within company.
• Provide and oversee inspection process for product throughout production life cycle.
• Apply continuous improvement quality tools and approaches to charting and reporting processes.
• Interact with suppliers to ensure quality of purchased parts.
• Maintain active role on internal continuous improvement team.
• Design, develop and implement quality control training programs for inspection personnel.
• Conduct internal process audits per ISO 9001 requirements
• Support the management representative in achieving company goals and objectives
• Complete 1 improvement project per year as it pertains to process, product, or QC system

Preferred Skills:

• AS9100/ISO9001 training and implementation experience
• Internal Auditing, FAI, and strong CAPA, FMEA experience
• Project, process management
• Experience in the use of precision tools
• Supervision, Coaching, and Managing Processes
• Collaborative/team-based management style preferred
• Problem solving skills; process, electromechanical production, and inspection
• Strong knowledge of mathematics, data analysis, and statistical methods
• Use of inspection tools, methods, processes, and maintain inspection tools
• Knowledge and experience in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, Quality Assurance Certification and ASQ-CQE,
• 7-10 years of experience in quality control management and inspection activities
• Management and leadership skills
• Ability to create and manage budgets
• Demonstrate ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, set priorities, identify, and address problems, meet deadlines, and stay within budgeted hours.
• Must have excellent writing and communication skills
• Work collaboratively with process improvement teams

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk and sit for extended periods of time.
• Lift 25-50lbs

Personal Attributes:

• Motivation: Must be ambitious, like to work hard, be highly motivated, and able to work in a fast-paced environment. Must share the senior management team’s vision of building a world class business.
• Integrity: Has highest standards of integrity reflected in all external and internal communications.
• Strategic Thinking: Must have the strategic vision to create and execute long term planning and processes.
• Communication: Exceptional communicator in written and oral forms, with a collaborative and flexible style.
• Personality: Self-motivated, high energy, respectful, honest, hard-working and loyal team player.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States and be able to pass a background check

• Serve as the technical project leader for NPI manufacturing activities, driving the development and commercialization of products.
• Provide strategic oversight of manufacturing readiness for new product introductions, ensuring alignment of engineering resources, project schedules, and cross-functional deliverables.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product Development, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing Operations to ensure robust, scalable, and compliant processes.
• Coordinate, identify, and implement advanced manufacturing processes to ensure production capacity, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and adherence to quality standards.
• Define project plans, timelines, and resources needed to support NPI manufacturing programs, ensuring accountability for milestones and deliverables.
• Apply in-depth technical expertise to specify, design, and validate equipment, tooling, fixtures, and automation used in production.
• Drive PFMEA, DFM/DFA, and design transfer activities to establish capable, efficient, and risk-mitigated manufacturing processes.
• Develop manufacturing assembly and test methods that ensure Critical to Quality (CTQ) and Critical to Assembly (CTA) requirements are met.
• Establish and track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and process capability metrics using statistical tools such as MSA, GR&R, and SPC.
• Represent externally and internally as a manufacturing subject matter expert (SME), ensuring effective knowledge transfer to production and suppliers.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers and technical staff, fostering a culture of engineering rigor, accountability, and innovation.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned/required.
  
  

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline required.
• 10+ years of experience in an FDA/ISO-regulated medical device or medical equipment manufacturing environment.
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• Proven leadership in the selection, qualification, and scale-up of capital assembly equipment and automation.
  
  

• Advanced degree preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise in automated assembly methods, robotics, automated inspection, and fixture/tooling design.
• Strong knowledge of injection molding and plastic joining techniques (ultrasonic/RF/laser welding, adhesive/solvent bonding).
• Proficiency in SolidWorks for 3D modeling and design of assembly models, fixtures, and tooling.
• Lean Six Sigma experience and proficiency in statistical data analysis tools (Minitab or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• Strong project management skills, with demonstrated accountability for planning, execution, and delivery of NPI milestones.
• Exceptional leadership and interpersonal skills, with ability to influence and align cross-functional teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present technical and project information to leadership and stakeholders.
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• Vision
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• 401K Plan
• Pet insurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  
  

This role will be based at our new Siemens Energy Transformers Manufacturing Center Factory in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The facility is planned to be built by early 2026 for production commencement. Consequently, the first part of the journey in this role in our company will involve overseeing the construction of the factory and the implementation of new processes, as well as managing the development of a high-performance team and coordinating all aspects of the factory set-up to prepare for production

A Snapshot of Your Day

The Manufacturing Engineer plays a key role in all stages of the Large Power Transformer manufacturing process. This role is responsible for improvements, reducing costs, along the entire process. As Manufacturing Engineer, you will define and improve process ensuring safety, quality and cost. This individual will also work closely with different departments in the organization, sharing experience and information before any process implementation. Additionally, this individual will have oversea exposure with another peer worldwide. This role requires a combination of strong leadership, technical expertise with a strong focus in safety, quality and efficiency, and a commitment to fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.

How You’ll Make an Impact

* Define and lead strategies, tactics, projects, and methods to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost, while ensuring coherence with internal and external regulations.

* Lead and contribute to manufacturing policies, guidelines, processes, and procedures, focusing on worldwide standardization and continuous improvement.

* Research and implement innovation, digital tools, and decarbonization projects to generate a positive environmental impact.

* Perform risk assessments, share lessons learned, and certify critical processes, involving different departments to make informed decisions.

* Propose, monitor and control short-, mid-, and long-term development projects, investment, budgets, and ensure optimum machine utilization.

* Support planning and industrial processes for capacity calculation, respond to complex operational inquiries, and ensure the availability of necessary procedures and guidelines, while training and coaching others in the organization.

What You Bring

* Bachelor’s degree: Electric, Electronic, Mechanical or Mechatronic Engineering preferred. Other disciplines will be considered with hands on experience.

* 5+ Years Experience in Power Transformers [>30 MVA & >75.5 kV].

* Experience with project management, planning and logistics.

* Six Sigma Certification and knowledge of lean manufacturing principals strongly preferred. Manufacturing Engineer - Large Power Transformers

* Experience with SAP and HANA Systems

* Familiarity with Total Productive Maintenance [TPM] and Overall Equipment Effectiveness [OEE].

Offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check, pre-employment drug screen, and any other test(s) required for the role.

Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.

About the Team

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology. At Charlotte Power Transformers, you’ll be part of a team that is passionate about making a difference in the energy sector. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth and development. Be a part of our mission to deliver superior transformer solutions to the world.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

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Rewards

* Career growth and development opportunities

* Supportive work culture

* Company paid Health and wellness benefits

* Paid Time Off and paid holidays

* 401K savings plan with company match

* Family building benefits

* Parental leave

* Networking & Exposure [On site & other BUs].

* Mentorship & Coaching.

* Develop yourself as new and potential talent.

* Annual training.

* Continuous learning.

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