The Senior Quality Engineer is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and improving quality standards for products manufactured in a high-reliability, low-volume, high-mix electronics environment. This role provides hands-on engineering support to production and serves as a key liaison for quality issues with both customers and suppliers. The position requires a strong technical foundation in electronic assembly and a disciplined approach to root cause and corrective action methodologies.
Responsibilities:
- Perform as the technical team leader while interfacing with customers and suppliers on product performance
- Serve as the primary contact with customers on quality issues
- Responsible for the development of customer specific Quality Program Plans
- Performs P.O. and SOW reviews to ensure Sypris compliance and/or take exceptions as required to ensure compliance to customer specifications
- Key team member in manufacturing and production readiness reviews
- Responsible for generating and approving AS9102 FAI's to contract and prints
- Strong participation with program teams in an effort to drive high product quality, continuous improvement, and increased customer satisfaction
- Reviews quality and product data to ensure conformance to specifications
- Analyzes process, product, and component performances to identify continuous improvement opportunities
- Establishes and implements statistical process controls
- Manages, analyzes, and publishes Quality Assurance Performance Reports for assigned projects including process yields, defect/root cause analyses and associated corrective actions
- Leads failure analysis efforts on systemic non-conformances and field returns implementing appropriate corrective action
- Generates quality alerts, deviations, purges, and other process documentation
- Performs MRB review and engage Team/Customer as required to disposition product and raw components
- Evaluation, approval, implementation and verification of ECO's
- Designs and implements methods and procedures for testing and inspecting the quality level of products and production equipment
- Analyzes reports and returned products and recommends corrective action
- Evaluates new quality standards as required
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- Minimum of 7 years in quality or process engineering within electronic component and assembly manufacturing
- Possess an in-depth understanding of high-mix/low-volume manufacturing
- Hands on technical experience with SMT assembly processes and requirements, including AS9100/9102; IPC-610; and J-STD-001
- Extensive knowledge and experience creating and reviewing full or partial FAI's per AS9102
- Extensive knowledge of Corrective Action and failure reporting processes
- Experience with document collection, hardware hierarchy, and specification reviews with customers
- Extensive knowledge of data collection and statistical techniques including ability to implement Statistical Process Control
- Extensive knowledge in RCCA and building quality into the process
- Knowledge of Lean/Six Sigma principles and application methods
- Experience with implementing Lean tools/methods (Standard work, 5S, cells, TPM, 1 piece flow, Set Up reduction, Poka Yoke)
- Experience with process improvement changes through Kaizen or other focused methods
- Familiarity with work standards and visual manufacturing instructions
- Strong skills with MS Office programs
- Experience working with MRP systems and inventory availability analysis
- Strong interpersonal skills and team building skills
- Experience with answering Customer corrective action with detailed information and in a timely manner
- Ability to operate independently or as a team as the work dictates
- Strong time management skills
- Possess or have the ability to obtain a U.S. Government granted security clearance
Sypris Electronics, LLC provides goods and services to the U.S. Government and other prime contractors and is obligated by its contracts with those entities, as well as by various federal laws and regulations regarding security and export control, to restrict access to certain goods, services, and/or any related information. Accordingly, Sypris Electronics has a policy of only hiring U.S. citizens. Upon employment all employees have to provide evidence verifying U.S. citizenship.
Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.e-verify.gov.
Pre-employment drug screening required.
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Sypris Electronics, LLC
Sypris Electronics offers a competitive compensation and benefits package upon date of hire including health, dental, vision, life, disability, and 401(k) with company matching. We also offer a 9/80 work schedule.
Jul 17, 2025