Senior Advanced Quality Engineer

TE Connectivity plc

Wilsonville, OR

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
8D, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Communication Skills, Continuous Improvement, Corrective Action, Cross-Functional, Customer Relations, Customer Support/Service, Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), Diversity, External Audit, Facebook, ISO (International Organization for Standardization), ISO 9001, Internal Audit, Leadership, LinkedIn, Maintain Compliance, Manufacturing, Mentoring, Multitasking, Network Operations Center, Problem Solving Skills, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Process Flow, Process Improvement, Process Management, Product Development, Product Management, Product/Service Launch, Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Quality Engineering, Quality Management, Regulatory Requirements, Requirements Management, Risk, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis, Six Sigma, Team Lead/Manager, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Twitter, Willing to Travel
LOCATION
Wilsonville, OR
POSTED
30+ days ago

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Job Title: Senior Advanced Quality Engineer

Posting Start Date: 4/22/26

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Job Description:

Job Overview

The Senior Advanced Quality Engineer (AQE) leads quality execution for New Product Development and product launches within TE Connectivity. This role owns APQP implementation, proactively manages product and process risk, interfaces directly with customers, and ensures robust quality governance through development, validation, and launch phases. The Senior AQE acts as a trusted quality leader across cross-functional teams, driving systemic problem solving and continuous improvement.

Job Requirements

  • Lead and execute APQP end-to-end across multiple complex NPD projects.
  • Own quality execution through development, validation, and Safe Launch activities.
  • Lead DFMEA, PFMEA, Process Flow, Control Plan, MSA, SPC, and capability activities.
  • Ensure alignment between risk analysis, manufacturing controls, and validation outputs.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate product, process, and application quality risks.
  • Guide cross-functional teams on Customer Specific Requirements (CSRs) from Voice of Customer (VoC) and defining product requirements to customer needs.
  • Act as primary quality interface for customers during development and launch phases.
  • Support customer approvals including FAI, PPAP, and FAAR.
  • Lead structured problem-solving using 8D, 5-Why, Ishikawa, and Six Sigma or similar methodology and the fundamentals to quality engineering problem solving and process improvement.
  • Drive systemic corrective and preventive actions to prevent recurrence.
  • Represent AQE during internal, customer, and external audits.
  • Ensure compliance with ISO 13485, ISO9001 (where applicable if non-medical), and customer requirements.
  • Share lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement of AQE processes.
  • Provide informal leadership and mentoring across project teams.

What your background should look like

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering with NPD and manufacturing exposure.
  • Demonstrated experience with principles and application of APQP, quality risk management, and root cause analysis a distinct advantage
  • Strong communication and ability to influence cross-functional teams.

Key Requirements

  • Proven leadership in APQP and product launch quality execution.
  • Experience applying customer and regulatory requirements within NPD.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced development environment.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and problem-solving mindset.

Competencies

Values: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, Teamwork

ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

COMPENSATION

  • Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $xxx - xxx (subject to change dependent on physical location)
  • Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
  • Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits

BENEFITS

  • A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.

EOE, Including Disability/Vets

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD

TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com. If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.

Job Locations:

10025 SW FREEMAN CT

WILSONVILLE, Oregon 97070-9289

United States

Posting City: WILSONVILLE

Job Country: United States

Travel Required: Less than 10%

Requisition ID: 150807

Workplace Type: Onsite

External Careers Page: Quality

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About the Company

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TE Connectivity plc

TE Connectivity is an industry leader with an entrepreneurial spirit, fueled by innovation and collaboration. Our emphasis on forward thinking has attracted the brightest industry minds, allowing them to thrive and create breakthrough solutions that deliver a competitive advantage to our customers.

TE Connectivity is a global, $12.1 billion company that designs and manufactures over 500,000 products that connect and protect the flow of power and data inside the products that touch every aspect of our lives. Our nearly 90,000 employees partner with customers in virtually every industry—from consumer electronics, energy and healthcare, to automotive, aerospace and communication networks—enabling smarter, faster, better technologies to connect products to possibilities.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Electronics, Components, and Semiconductor Mfg
FOUNDED
2007
WEBSITE
http://www.te.com/usa-en/home.html