# Quality Engineering Manager

Key Technology in Walla Walla, WA is a worldwide leader in food processing technology. As a global industrial manufacturing company, our ongoing innovations provide increased control, continuous processing, sorting, automated inspection, specialized conveying, and grading and sizing, in processed fruits and vegetables, nuts, dried fruit, fresh-cut produce and more. POSITION SUMMARY The Quality Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the organization's quality assurance and quality/reliability engineering functions to ensure products, processes, and systems consistently meet customer requirements, regulatory standards, and company objectives. This role drives continuous improvement initiatives, oversees quality management systems, manages quality engineering resources, and collaborates cross-functionally to improve product quality, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES: Quality Management Develop, implement, and own the effectiveness of the company's Quality Management System (QMS). Ensure compliance with applicable industry standards, customer requirements, and regulatory requirements. Establish quality objectives, metrics, and reporti

- **Id**: 1498535
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/key-technology-quality-engineering-manager>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-30T02:58:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T21:22:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 45
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5998
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Machinery, Food Safety

## Company

- **Id**: 1955738
- **Name**: Key Technology
- **Domain**: key.net
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/key-net>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Paycom

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 122000
- **Max usd**: 250000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1354

## Technologies

- **CAPA** — Optional: no
- **FMEA** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 45

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-30T02:58:36Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-29T19:24:34Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-14T09:06:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 41
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.749
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T23:44:21Z

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