Senior Quality Engineer

Images that Matter. With Teams that Matter.

Carestream is a global provider of medical imaging systems and solutions; x-ray imaging systems for non-destructive testing; and contract manufacturing.

And the work we do matters. Our products and solutions help make everyday heroes days a little easier, improve patients' lives, and makes a difference in our communities. And it couldn't be done without our team of hard-working, talented and caring individuals.

We are proud to have been recognized by our employees and alumni as one of America's Best Midsize Employers and America's Best Employers for Engineers.

Compensation: $103,600 - $138,100 per year

• This range reflects Carestream's good faith estimate to pay fairly as starting wage. Offers will be tailored within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process, as well as geographic market differentials for the position.

Position Summary:

The NDT Senior Quality Engineer supports our NDT manufacturing operations . This position owns the Quality Management System and will develop, implement, and improve quality systems, process controls, inspection methods, and corrective actions according to all applicable regulatory requirements. The NDT Senior Quality Engineer position is also responsible for ensuring incoming material supply, products and processes consistently meet customer, regulatory, safety, and quality requirements. They serve as the quality leader within a cross-functional team, utilizing data analysis and structured problem-solving techniques to identify risks, eliminate defects, and improve process capability. This position ensures compliance with the organization's Quality Management System and applicable requirements (i.e. ISO 9001, and customer-specific requirements). The position partners closely with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Engineering, and to drive product quality and operational excellence.

Position Responsibilities:

• Serves as the Quality Subject Matter Expert for the NDT manufacturing operations.
• Combines quality ownership and leadership with hands-on quality engineering support and lead quality activities for electromechanical assembly, testing, inspection, packaging, and service operations to ensure products and processes meet approved specifications and quality requirement.
• Initiate, conduct, lead and/or facilitate, investigations of manufacturing defects, nonconforming material, supplier issues, service failures, and customer complaints using structured root-cause analysis, risk assessment, and corrective and preventive action methods.
• Monitor and analyze supplier quality, product performance, and CAPA data to ensure reduced service needs due to out-of-box defects using statistical methods and key metrics to identify trends, reduce defects, and improve process capability and product quality.
• Develop and maintain control plans, inspection plans, sampling methods, acceptance criteria, quality procedures, work instructions, investigation reports, and other controlled quality documentation.
• Plan, review, and execute qualification, manufacturing validation, measurement-system, and change-control activities for manufacturing processes, equipment, software, test methods, inspection systems, products, and materials.
• Conduct internal, external, customer and regulatory audits to assess supplier qualification and improvement, quality-system compliance, and employee training, etc. to ensure continued conformance with applicable regulatory, customer, and company requirements.

Required Skills & Education:

• Bachelor's degree in any STEM field (including mechanical, electrical, industrial, manufacturing, biomedical, or a related engineering discipline).
• Minimum 7 years of quality engineering experience (in a regulated manufacturing environment preferred).
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 and experience applying quality-system, documentation, risk-management, and regulatory requirements within a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience investigating product and process nonconformities, leading structured root-cause analysis, and implementing sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Experience analyzing manufacturing data and developing process controls, inspection plans, acceptance criteria, validation documentation, or other manufacturing quality records.
• Strong analytical, project-management, written, and verbal communication skills.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with supplier qualification, supplier audits, supplier corrective actions, statistical-analysis software, enterprise resource planning systems, or electronic quality-management systems.
• Experience in diagnostic-equipment, radiographic-imaging, or another regulated manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting electromechanical assembly, system-level testing, troubleshooting, returned-product analysis, installation, or service operations.
• Experience with process validation, equipment qualification, test-method validation, measurement-system analysis, statistical process control, process capability analysis, or design of experiments.
• American Society for Quality Certified Quality Engineer, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt, or ISO 13485 or ISO 9001 audit certification or training is preferred

Work Environment:

Traditional Office Environment: This position is primarily an office setting with standard temperature and humidity controls, moderate to light noise, fluorescent lighting, primarily sitting with standing desks available, extensive computer and keyboard use, etc. This includes home office settings for remote eligible positions.

Carestream is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Carestream is an equal opportunity organization. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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Requisition ID: 4903