Senior Quality Manager - Design Assurance

Fusion Recruiters is supporting a global manufacturer in its search for a Senior Quality Manager focused on Design Assurance.

This position will work upstream in new-product development, partnering with engineering to identify design risks, improve product reliability and ensure new products are ready for successful manufacturing launch.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Lead or facilitate DFMEA and design-risk activities
• Integrate quality and reliability into new-product development
• Support product verification, validation and reliability testing
• Connect design requirements to PFMEA, control plans and launch readiness
• Lead structured problem solving using 8D, RCCA or Six Sigma
• Translate warranty and field-performance information into design improvements
• Influence engineering, testing, manufacturing and other cross-functional teams

We are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline
• 5+ years of relevant quality, reliability, design or product-development experience
• Hands-on DFMEA experience
• New-product development and manufacturing-launch exposure
• Strong design-risk, verification or validation fundamentals
• Technical credibility combined with excellent communication and relationship-building skills

Experience in heavy equipment, automotive, aerospace, defense, commercial vehicles or another complex-product environment is valuable. Candidates from adjacent regulated industries will also be considered when they can demonstrate transferable design-assurance experience.

This is an excellent opportunity for a quality or engineering professional who wants to influence how products are designed—not simply respond to issues after launch.

Work Authorization Requirement: Due to the nature of the work and potential access to controlled goods or technologies, candidates must qualify as a “U.S. Person” under applicable export-control regulations. This generally includes U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees and individuals granted asylum. Employment sponsorship is not available for this position.