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Start your next chapter and join EMD Electronics.\nReady to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans - so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.\nEverything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers.\nThis role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.\nYour Role:\nThe Quality Engineer position will lead the effort to raise quality performance for materials delivered to major semiconductor customers globally. In this role, you will identify improvement opportunities, lead cross-functional teams through structured problem solving and Lean/Six Sigma projects, and embed sustainable process changes that reduce variation, prevent defects, and strengthen customer confidence. As the voice of the customer, you will partner with the Site Quality Manager to build a culture of continuous improvement, using process control tools, data, and automation to make quality gains measurable and lasting.\nKey Responsibilities:\nPartner with the Site Quality Manager to set improvement goals and maintain and advance quality performance\nAct as the voice of the customer to the site, translating customer feedback and requirements into improvement priorities\nLead site continuous improvement efforts for Hometown quality, identifying, prioritizing, and delivering projects that reduce defects, variation, and cost of poor quality\nUse process control tools (e.g., SPC reviews) and performance metrics to find improvement opportunities and confirm that are sustained\nLead investigations to root cause using structured problem-solving tools (5-Whys, segmentation, Model Based Problem Solving) and manage cross-functional teams in implementing corrective, preventive, and mitigation actions\nDrive Lean and Six Sigma projects (DMAIC, kaizen events, value stream mapping) from scoping through implementation and sustainment\nLead cross-functional teams in resolving various issues and translating lessons learned into standardized process improvements across the site and globally\nIdentify and enable automation and data digitization activities that speed decisions, improve visibility into unknown variables and issues, and remove manual inefficiencies\nLead FMEAs, management of change, and document control improvements to keep changes controlled, documented, and effective\nSupport and engage in audits of site processing and quality systems, turning findings into improvement actions\nContribute to global quality projects and share best practices across sites\nCoach and mentor teams in continuous improvement methods to build problem-solving capability across the site\nWho You Are\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, or a similar technical discipline, along with 5+ years of experiencesupporting or leading quality or continuous improvement initiatives in a semiconductor, chemical production, or a similar manufacturing environment\nOR\nMaster’s degree in chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, or a similar technical discipline along with 3+ years of experiencesupporting or leading quality or continuous improvement initiatives in a semiconductor, chemical production, or a similar manufacturing environment\nPreferred Qualifications:\nDemonstrated success leading continuous improvement projects with measurable results\nExperience with quality problem-solving tools (5-Whys, segmentation, Model Based Problem Solving), FMEAs, continuous improvement activities, management of change, and document control systems\nSix Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification preferred\nDemonstrated success advancing projects, project teams, and process improvements\nExcellent time management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects at once\nWorking knowledge of statistics (SPC, t-test, ANOVA) sufficient to validate improvements\nDemonstrated ability to motivate others, influence without authority, and collaborate with multiple internal stakeholders\nProficiency with data and visualization tools such as JMP, Palantir Foundry, Python, and/or Tableau\nExperience with process improvement, data automation, and data digitization\nExcellent oral and written communication skills in English, and ideally additional languages\nAbility to work effectively with people from various backgrounds and cultures\nExperience in the electronics industry, preferably semiconductors\nExperience with ISO9001 Quality Management Systems\nSAP experience\nPay Range for this position: $86,200-$129,200 year\nThe offer range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base pay compensation for this position. 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