Senior Advanced Quality Engineer
Ibqbjb Honeywell · North Carolina, United States · hybrid
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As a Senior Quality Engineer within Honeywell Industrial Automation’s HSS business, you will apply deep quality-engineering expertise to improve product and process performance, strengthen compliance, and enhance customer satisfaction. You will partner with Engineering, Operations, Sourcing, Supplier Quality, Product Management, and other functions to identify risk, resolve complex quality issues, and embed prevention-based practices across the product life cycle.
You will report directly to our Director, Quality Control Engineering and work out of our Charlotte, NC location on a hybrid work schedule, and may consider other locations within the HSS ISC sites (Boyne City, MI and Richardson, TX). For the first 90 days, New Hires must be prepared to work 100% onsite, Monday-Friday.
In this role, you will improve the quality and reliability of HSS products by ensuring customer, regulatory, statutory, and Honeywell requirements are translated into effective controls. You will lead structured problem solving, use data to identify systemic opportunities, and drive corrective and preventive actions that reduce defects, escapes, warranty exposure, and cost of poor quality.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead quality planning and execution for HSS products and processes, including new product introduction, change management, production, and post-delivery support.
- Ensure compliance with the applicable quality management system, customer requirements, engineering specifications, and industry standards, including ISO 9001 and AS9100 where applicable.
- Lead root cause and corrective action activities using structured methods such as 8D, 5 Why, fault-tree analysis, and other Six Sigma tools; verify effectiveness and prevent recurrence.
- Analyze quality data and performance trends, including customer escapes, defects, warranty, scrap, rework, and cost of poor quality; translate findings into prioritized improvement plans.
- Facilitate risk-based assessments such as FMEA and control-plan reviews to identify and mitigate product and process risks.
- Partner with Engineering and Operations to establish inspection, test, validation, and acceptance criteria that support capable and stable processes.
- Support internal, customer, registrar, and regulatory audits; address findings and sustain audit readiness.
- Collaborate with suppliers and Supplier Quality to resolve material and component issues, improve supplier capability, and strengthen incoming quality performance.
- Serve as a quality representative in cross-functional reviews, customer communications, and escalation forums; communicate status, risk, containment, and recovery plans clearly.
- Coach and mentor colleagues on quality tools, standards, problem solving, and prevention-focused decision making.
- Drive continuous improvement using Lean Six Sigma and Honeywell operating-system principles.
- Travel 20-30% domestically or internationally as business needs require.
You Must Have:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Engineering, Quality, Science, Technology, or a related technical discipline.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in aerospace quality engineering, quality systems, manufacturing quality, design quality, supplier quality, or a related regulated-industry role.
- Working knowledge of AS9100, ISO 9001, applicable aerospace regulatory requirements, and customer-specific quality requirements.
- Experience leading quality management system governance, internal and external audits, nonconformance management, and corrective and preventive action across multiple sites or business units.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex root cause investigations using structured methods such as 8D, 5 Why, fault-tree analysis, and Lean Six Sigma tools.
- Experience using quality metrics, statistical analysis, and trend data to identify systemic risk, establish priorities, and drive measurable improvement.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, contractual quality clauses, and regulatory requirements and translate them into effective controls.
- Strong executive communication, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills in a global matrix organization.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and deliver measurable results in a fast-paced global matrix environment.
- Strong analytical, organizational, facilitation, and project-management skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, quality data systems, dashboards, and enterprise tools such as SAP.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally to support sites, suppliers, customers, and audits.
- Eligibility to access ITAR-controlled information, products, and technology and to obtain and maintain any required U.S. government authorization.
ITAR Specific Requirements:
- Must be a U.S. Person, as defined by applicable U.S. export-control laws and regulations, or otherwise eligible to obtain and maintain any U.S. government authorization required for access to ITAR-controlled technical data, defense articles, or defense services.
- Demonstrated understanding of ITAR compliance obligations, including access restrictions, technical-data controls, export authorization, secure handling, and prevention of unauthorized exports or deemed exports.
- Ability to identify, mark, store, transmit, discuss, and dispose of ITAR-controlled technical data in accordance with approved company procedures and authorized systems.
- Experience incorporating export-control requirements into quality processes, audits, corrective actions, supplier oversight, document control, configuration management, and records retention.
- Ability to complete required ITAR and export-compliance training and maintain ongoing compliance with applicable policies, licenses, agreements, provisos, and technology-control plans.
- Ability to maintain accurate and auditable records demonstrating compliance with applicable export-control requirements.
We Value:
- Advanced degree in Engineering, Quality, Business, or a related field.
- Experience with ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO 13485, IATF 16949, or other regulated-industry quality standards relevant to the product portfolio.
- ASQ certification such as Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence, Certified Quality Auditor, or equivalent.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
- AS9100 lead auditor qualification and experience supporting certification, customer, regulatory, and special-process audits.
- Experience supporting an aerospace Safety Management System (SMS), including safety risk management, safety assurance, occurrence reporting, and continuous improvement.
- Experience with FAA, EASA, Defense Contract Management Agency, Defense Contract Audit Agency, and other aerospace or defense oversight requirements, as applicable.
- Knowledge of AS9145/APQP, PPAP, FMEA, control plans, statistical process control, measurement-system analysis, first article inspection, and configuration management.
- Experience supporting product certification, regulatory compliance, test laboratories, or global approval agencies.
- Experience establishing enterprise quality strategy, standardizing processes, and building maturity QMS across geographically dispersed sites.
- Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence across functions, sites, and levels of the organization
- Experience leading supplier quality improvement, supplier recovery, and systemic corrective action acros