Quality Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 14, 2026. ABB scores A on the Alion truth index.
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This position reports to:
Engineering Manager__
Your role and responsibilities
At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions.
The Quality Engineer will serve as both a technical design authority and a customer-facing lead for ABB Critical Power projects. This role combines engineering responsibilities with commercial customer engagement to ensure successful project delivery and resolution of customer quality issues. Utilizing management skills, technical under standing of products, and communication skills to lead the ABB service, engineering, factory, and product management to solve and resolve customer quality issues.
ABB Smart Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division’s technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division’s portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world’s largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions. The Division’s ABB Ability™ Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps organizations save energy and reduce CO2 emissions.
The work model for the role is: Remote {#LI-Remote}
40% travel requirement for customer visits and project support.
Your role and responsibilities:
- Serve as ABB’s primary customer contact for quality and technical issues, leading communications, onsite support, action plans, and resolution timelines.
- Act as the technical and design authority for engineering deliverables on moderate- to high-complexity projects.
- Review and approve designs, perform verification and peer reviews, and ensure compliance with safety, quality, contractual, and as-built documentation requirements.
- Identify and resolve technical challenges while communicating product gaps, customer needs, and market trends to commercial and product management teams.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, testing, commissioning, service, supply chain, sales, and product management to ensure successful project execution.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects, including work plans, cost estimates, RFQs, supplier evaluations, project meetings, contract variations, and timely delivery of engineering outputs.
Qualifications for the role:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or (related field) with 7+ years’ experience in electrical distribution or power systems; Master’s degree with 5+ years’ experience in electrical distribution or power systems.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; fluent in English (written and spoken).
- Proficiency in MS Office, MS Teams, and ability to leverage AI tools in job functions.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and work independently with minimal supervision.
- Capability to establish and nurture partnership relationships with ABB Product management, engineering, and service.
- Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PE Certification
- Experience with LV/MV UPS systems, batteries, static transfer switches, power conditioning, PDUs, and ATS.
- Familiarity with industry codes and standards (ANSI, IEEE, NEC, NEMA, NFPA 70E, UL).
- Lean Six Sigma Certification
- Previous field, factory, or design engineering experience in data centers, hospitals, or industrial facilities.
What's in it for you
We want you to bring your full self to work-your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You’ll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.
ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their- sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.
For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf
As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer for Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities, applicants may request to review the plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762.
Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to [email protected]. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner.
While base salary is determined by things such as the successful applicant’s qualifications and experience, this position is expected to pay between $83,300 and $133,280 annually.
ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees
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Health, Life & Disability
- Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
- Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
- Vision benefit
- Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
- Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
- Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums
- Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid
- Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid. Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
- Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
- Parental Leave - up to 6 weeks
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
- Employee discount program
Retirement
- 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
- Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
Time off
ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Vacation is provided based on years of service for hourly and non-exempt positions. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.
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