Aerospace Transparencies - Senior Quality Engineer

Aerospace Transparencies - Senior Quality Engineer

Huntsville, AL

Are you a Senior Quality Engineer who is ready to take their career to new heights?  Are you passionate about the voice of the customer and the voice of quality within cross-functional teams?  Are you ready to play a critical role in preventing quality escapes, resolving customer issues, and embedding quality into engineering and manufacturing processes? Are you able to take your deep knowledge in compliance with AS9100, FAA, and EASA requirements, and make a difference in the lives of our customers and the end users?  If this sounds like you, then APPLY NOW for this Aerospace Transparencies - Senior Quality Engineer role as part of the PPG team!

In this role as an Aerospace Transparencies - Senior Quality Engineer you will be a senior technical contributor responsible for preventive quality engineering, systemic problem solving, and customer quality execution across the product lifecycle.  In this role you will lead complex quality investigations, drive robust corrective actions, and partners cross-functionally to ensure manufacturing and support processes are capable, compliant, and continually improving. You will operate with significant autonomy and be accountable for technical quality leadership, customer issue resolution, and systemic improvement. Your focus in this role will be on root cause elimination, data-driven decision-making, and sustained process capability rather than inspection or administrative compliance.

This position is based fully onsite in our Huntsville, AL. facility. You will report to the Quality Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as the primary quality engineering lead for customer quality issues, complaints, and audits.
• Leads cross-functional root cause investigations and drives containment, corrective, and preventive actions using structured methodologies (e.g., 8D).
• Ensures corrective actions address true systemic and process causes, verify effectiveness, and embeds lessons learned into standard work.
• Applies advanced quality tools (SPC, FMEA, Control Plans, DOE, MSA) and analyzes quality data to identify trends and risks.
• Partners across functions implement sustainable process improvements and represent quality requirements in design, change, and failure reviews.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and data-driven insights to support leadership decision-making and customer communication.
• Acts as a senior technical influencer, mentoring quality engineers and driving outcomes through expertise rather than authority.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience required.
• Eight (8) or more years of aerospace or similar environmental quality engineering experience required.
• Six Sigma, CQE, or similar certifications are preferred.
• Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply.

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PPG offers comprehensive benefits such as Health, Dental, Life, Retirement Plan, Paid Vacation & Holidays, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Disability/Leave, and other Voluntary benefit offerings. Actual benefit offerings confirmed at the time of hire.

About us: 

PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD™ 

Through leadership in innovation, sustainability and color, PPG helps customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways than does any other company. To learn more, visit www.ppg.com and follow @PPG on X. 

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We are customer champions 

Proactive. Bold. Trustworthy. Everything we do starts with our customers. We listen, move fast and don’t stop until we solve their biggest challenges. When our customers win, we all grow. 

We act with purpose and speed 

Agile. Data-driven. Empowered. We take smart risks to stay ahead of the competition. We work proactively with agility, using quality data to develop solutions that create value.  

We are excellent operators 

Productive. Collaborative. Accountable. No matter our role, we identify problems, take ownership and always bring solutions. We are both proactive and responsive to drive continuous improvement and deliver results. We support our frontline, the faces of PPG to our customers.   

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Future-focused. Driven. Ambitious. We are passionate about growing our business and winning with our customers. We deliver results, embrace new technologies and leverage agility and speed as strengths. 

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