Senior Quality Engineer

About ITT:

ITT is an industrial manufacturer of critical, engineered components that serve fast-growing end markets in transportation, flow, energy, aerospace and defense. The company’s differentiation is sustained through a combination of several factors: execution, the quality of its leadership and our DNA as an engineering leader. We have a clear purpose as an organization: to provide our customers with cutting-edge solutions to help solve their most critical needs.

 The company generated 2023 revenues of $3.3 billion and is comprised of three distinct segments: 

• Motion Technologies ($1.5B revenue) is a global leader in brake pads, shock absorbers and sealing solutions for the automotive and rail markets
• Industrial Process ($1.1B revenue) is a global leader in centrifugal and twin-screw pumps for the chemical, energy, mining and industrial markets
• Connect & Control Technologies ($0.7B) is a niche player in harsh environment connectors and control components in critical applications for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets.

 ITT is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut with over 10,000 employees in more than 35 countries and sales in approximately 125 countries.

Position Summary

ITT's Control Technologies, headquartered in Valencia, Calif., provides fuel management, actuation, noise abatement and vibration isolation components to the aerospace industry and customized and standard products for precision motion control, energy absorption and vibration isolation for industrial markets.

 

ITT offers an extremely attractive benefits program. Our employees are provided medical and dental coverage, 401K savings plan, life insurance protection, sickness and accident income protection, a generous vacation and holiday program, a tuition reimbursement program, and a program that allows you to use tax-free dollars to pay for many health care and dependent care expenses.

 

Summary: The Senior Quality Engineer will manage tasks related to current production processes, continuous improvement, and daily support with internal and external customers. This role will be a leader in the organization to support of all MRB and RMA activities and appropriate root cause problems solving and improvement to prevent recurrence of customer escapes and internal defects. The Senior Quality Engineer will hold a primary role in the launch of new products by ensuring compliance and readiness by employing Advanced Product Quality Planning techniques. 

Essential Responsibilities

• Work directly work with the customer to understand and mitigate Quality concerns and provide appropriate timely responses for actions of containment, root cause analysis, corrective action and effectiveness reviews.
• Read/Interpret and assure Customer requirements are followed and flowed into Supplier Purchase Orders.
• Work directly with Customer to organize on-site visits and/or audits.
• Support production by analyzing problems, recommending, and implementing corrective actions as well as obtaining data to create appropriate metrics and plans for continuous improvement.
• Create, monitor and improve production quality metrics such as first pass yield. The candidate will make appropriate charts for display, actively participate in daily GEMBA meetings, and lead appropriate improvements
• Lead and teach the multidisciplinary effort to perform Root Cause analysis on internal and external product with timely responses and ensure all corrective actions are validated to prevent recurrence of non-conformances.
• Perform activities of an Internal auditor and create appropriate reports per procedures.
• Act as a Quality representative on the Engineering Change Control Board.
• Lead cultural transformation of quality standards throughout the Production and Quality organization, by adhering to our Quality Management System and through reinforcement of our core values of respect, integrity and accountability.
• Lead creation of Part Acceptance standards for Final Inspection, Assembly and Receiving Inspection areas as well as ensuring these requirements flow down to suppliers
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Position Requirements

• BS degree, with 10+ years of technical industry experience in manufacturing environment
• Working knowledge of materials: plastics, metals, elastomers, and metal finishes
• OEM documentation experience (drawing, specification, router, BOM, parts list, etc.).
• Demonstrated leadership or program management abilities
• Proficiency in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word and Outlook, excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Must be proactive approach to planning, organization capabilities, and problem r