Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer

Location: Houston, Texas (onsite)

Type: Full-time, direct hire

About the Role

Our client is an established energy equipment company that manufactures, overhauls, and repairs complex power systems for utility and industrial customers. They are hiring a Senior Quality Engineer to lead product and process quality across their production and repair operations.

You will be the senior quality voice between engineering, the shop floor, and supplier quality. You will take on the toughest defects and recurring issues, drive true root cause, and make sure the fix holds. If you have deep quality experience, enjoy solving problems with data, and want to influence how a growing operation builds and repairs its product, this is a strong fit.

What You Will Do

• Serve as the senior quality contact for manufacturing engineering, production teams, and supplier quality.
• Work with production to analyze in-process defects, escapes, and process gaps, and provide real-time quality guidance on the floor.
• Partner with supplier quality engineers when vendor issues surface internally, driving containment, root cause verification, and follow-up on corrective actions.
• Oversee nonconformance reports from open to close, and escalate recurring or high-impact issues.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions using structured problem-solving methods, then confirm the fixes are effective.
• Track yield, defect trends, and process capability, and act on negative trends before they grow.
• Lead continuous improvement projects aimed at fewer defects, more stable processes, and better efficiency.
• Help keep the site compliant with ISO 9001 and internal quality management system requirements, and support audits.
• Review and approve work instructions and process plans, including those for repair and overhaul work.
• Make sure approved process baselines stay controlled, and evaluate proposed changes through formal change control.
• Mentor less experienced quality engineers and help raise the bar on problem-solving practices.

What You Bring

Required

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field.
• 8+ years in a quality engineering role in a manufacturing, repair, or overhaul environment.
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001 and quality management systems.
• Proven experience leading NCR management, RCA/CAPA, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret yield, defect, and process capability data and turn it into action.
• Ability to work across engineering, operations, and supplier teams and influence without direct authority.
• Fluency in English, including strong speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension skills.
• Authorization to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship.
• Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check.

Nice to have

• Experience in turbine or rotating equipment manufacturing, power generation, or another regulated manufacturing setting.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or similar certification or experience.
• Experience with formal change management and controlled process systems.
• Experience mentoring or leading quality engineers.

What We Offer

• C ompetitive pay
• Medical, dental, vision, and life/disability insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Opportunity to grow with an expanding organization

Who Should Apply

Senior quality engineers, lead quality engineers, and supplier-facing quality professionals with deep quality focus from manufacturing, repair, or MRO backgrounds who enjoy structured problem solving and working directly with production teams.