Senior Product Quality Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-12-05

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HSK02: Kidde Aerospace 4200 Airport Drive,NW, Wilson, NC, 27896 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Senior Product Quality Engineer to support our fire suppression product portfolio at our Wilson, NC location. In this role, you’ll provide technical expertise and drive quality excellence across manufacturing and development processes to ensure product integrity, compliance, and customer satisfaction. This position is ideal for a quality professional seeking career growth in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You’ll gain visibility with site leadership while managing projects that have a direct impact on site quality performance. As an individual contributor, you’ll influence the development, application, and improvement of quality systems and protocols that uphold Collins’ commitment to operational excellence.

What You Will Do:

• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality evaluation, control systems and protocols for manufacturing products.

• Ensures that projects and/or process control documentation are compliant with requirements, objectives and/or contracts.

• Reviews and makes recommendations for Quality Assurance plans, guidelines, policies, and processes to ensure the achievement of Quality targets.

• Collects and analyzes data for the development of quality strategy and programs to ensure on-going reductions in Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) and escapes.

• Performs escape management procedures and leads teams to investigate the root cause of customer escapes and non-conformances as well as implement corrective/preventive actions.

• Provides technical guidance and support and maintains a strong working relationship with the inspection and operations teams.

• Develops new inspection technologies or methodologies to assure product conformance.

• PPAP core elements (e.g. PFMEA, MSA, Process Flow, and Control Plans) to identify and make recommendations for managing risk in product development.

• Participates in internal, customer, and third-party regulatory audits.

• Supports Material Review Board (MRB) activities.

• Supports review and implementation of engineering change orders.

• Other duties as required

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field

• Manufacturing experience

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience with root cause analysis and MRB

• Six Sigma/Lean deployment and process improvement experience (green belt preferred).

• AS9100 experience

• GD&T knowledge

• Experience with SAP and ETQ ideal

• Mechanical engineering experience

• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills.

What We Offer:

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:   

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance  

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees  

• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option  

• Tuition reimbursement program 

• Student Loan Repayment Program  

• Life insurance and disability coverage  

• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection 

• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits 

• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning  

• Adoption Assistance           

• Autism Benefit  

• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions  

• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program 

• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits  

• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services 

• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program

• This position may be eligible for relocation  

•  And more!  

Learn More and Apply Now!

Collins