Senior Process Quality Engineer - Mechanical

Location: Houston, TX

Department: DEPENG

The Opportunity

The Senior Process Quality Engineer - Mechanical is a quality engineering role responsible for improving and sustaining mechanical product quality across manufacturing and assembly operations. This position partners with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supplier Quality, Operations, Product, and Field Construction teams to prevent defects, strengthen process controls, support first-pass quality, and ensure mechanical assemblies meet drawings, specifications, customer requirements, field installation needs, and applicable quality standards before release from the factory. The role focuses on process capability, in-process quality controls, production and field issue resolution, root cause analysis, corrective action effectiveness, and lessons learned that improve repeatability across product builds and construction installation.

What you will do?

• Own mechanical product quality engineering support for factory production, assembly, integration, and ready-to-ship release activities.
• Develop, maintain, and improve mechanical inspection plans, control plans, quality gates, checklists, hold points, and acceptance criteria for mechanical modules, skids, piping, valves, tanks, cooling systems, fabricated structures, and related assemblies.
• Support in-process inspections, first-piece/first-build reviews, mechanical fit-up verification, dimensional checks, torque verification, pressure/leak testing, alignment checks, and final product quality release reviews.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering to resolve mechanical quality issues related to drawings, tolerances, fabrication, assembly sequencing, workmanship, material condition, supplier components, and installation readiness.
• Collaborate with Field Construction teams to troubleshoot installation-related mechanical product quality issues, support field problem solving, clarify factory versus field interfaces, and feed lessons learned back into factory inspection plans, design reviews, and standard work.
• Lead containment, root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, and effectiveness verification for factory mechanical nonconformances, repeat defects, customer escapes, and production quality trends.
• Analyze NCRs, inspection results, test data, defect trends, rework drivers, and first-pass quality performance to identify systemic process improvement opportunities.
• Drive manufacturing process improvements using quality engineering tools such as PFMEA, control plans, SPC, mistake-proofing, standard work, layered process audits, and visual quality standards.
• Support production readiness reviews for new products, first-of-kind builds, design changes, supplier changes, and manufacturing process changes to ensure mechanical quality risks are identified and controlled before production release.
• Collaborate with Supplier Quality on incoming mechanical component issues, supplier corrective actions, first article reviews, certificates of conformance, and supplier-related quality escapes affecting factory production.
• Maintain clear quality records, including inspection results, NCRs, RCCM/CAPA documentation, deviation support, lessons learned, quality alerts, and product release documentation.
• Coach manufacturing teams and quality inspectors on mechanical quality requirements, defect re