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As the Hardware Quality Engineering Manager, you will build, scale, and lead a multidisciplinary team of quality engineers, supplier quality personnel, and metrology specialists at our Spanish Fork facility.
You will serve as the technical engine for hardware quality—analyzing non-conformance data from incoming, production, and field return inspection teams, leading root-cause investigations, and executing permanent resolutions.
Additionally, you will partner with Manufacturing Engineering to validate test methods and screening criteria, architect ISO 9001-compliant lean documentation, and represent Quality in early NPI gate reviews.
This role is based in-office out of our manufacturing facility in Spanish Fork, Utah, with travel required as needed for supplier collaboration and engineering initiatives.
As the Hardware Quality Engineering Manager, you will build, scale, and lead a multidisciplinary team of quality engineers, supplier quality personnel, and metrology specialists at our Spanish Fork facility. You will serve as the technical engine for hardware quality—analyzing non-conformance data from incoming, production, and field return inspection teams, leading root-cause investigations, and executing permanent resolutions. Additionally, you will partner with Manufacturing Engineering to validate test methods and screening criteria, architect ISO 9001-compliant lean documentation, and represent Quality in early NPI gate reviews.
This role is based in-office out of our manufacturing facility in Spanish Fork, Utah, with travel required as needed for supplier collaboration and engineering initiatives.
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