Quality Engineer II

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About Us

Join a Fortune 500 company committed to innovation, operational excellence, and a culture of continuous improvement. At Parker, we empower our Team Members to drive change, foster teamwork, and deliver superior products and services to our customers worldwide.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

• A collaborative work environment focused on innovation and excellence.

When you join Parker Hannifin's Parflex Division, you're not just working on hoses and tubing - you're helping power the systems behind some of the most important vehicles, machines, and technologies in the world. From under the hood of U.S. military trucks like the JLTV and HEMTT, to inside the wings of the F-35 fighter jet and C-130 Hercules, our thermoplastic and fluoropolymer hose products are trusted in the world's most demanding applications.

You'll also find Parker Parflex products supporting wind farms, solar fields, food production plants, data centers, and next-generation hydrogen vehicles. Whether it's helping to land a Black Hawk helicopter safely or making sure air brake systems on semi-trucks perform in any weather, our team builds solutions that keep America moving, protected, and growing.

Parflex is part of Parker's North American Fluid Connectors Group, a global leader in motion and control technologies for over 100 years. At our facility, we focus on innovation, safety, and purpose-driven work. We offer stability, great benefits, and the satisfaction of building parts that truly make a difference.

Position Summary

The Quality Engineer II is a site level role responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality products and services through structured testing, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration. This role typically blends hands-on test execution with test planning, light automation, data analysis, and stakeholder communication. The Quality Engineer II helps define quality standards, identify defects and root causes, and drive continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.

SCOPE/SUPERVISION AND INTERACTION:

___ Has Direct Reports _X_ Does Not Have Direct Reports

Reports to Quality Supervisor/Manager.

Interfaces with Product Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality Departments

Responsibilities

• Interprets customer, regulatory, and Parker PQP requirements; translates requirements into site-level quality plans, controls, and acceptance criteria.

• Owns deployment and governance of PQP tools and quality procedures at the site; evaluates effectiveness and drives corrective actions for gaps:

  • Drive to Parker Quality Process (PQP) methodologies and principles through deployment of PQP tools within the site.

  • Leads the creation or updating of FMEAs, Control Plans, Work Instructions and related documentation under guidance.

  • Performs Measurement System Analysis (MSA) activities (e.g., gage R&R) and support calibration compliance.

• Audits and drives improvement in inspection reporting to requirements and data integrity controls; utilizes inspection outcomes to identifies systemic issues, implements and drive a plan to solve or improve the inspection process:

  • Collect, review, and maintain inspection records; log nonconformances; generate routine quality reports.

  • Oversees the incoming, in-process, and final inspection activities. Drives decisions around quality inspections to ensure they meet requirements.

• Leads containment strategy and cross-functional root cause investigations; determines appropriate analytical tools and drives CAPA selection, implementation, and effectiveness verification.:

  • Ensures containment, root cause analysis (e.g., 5-Why, fishbone), and corrective/preventive actions (CAPA).

  • Owns and tracks action item completion for effective verification with the responsible functions.

• Analyzes site quality performance using SPC and KPI dashboards; identifies special causes and systemic risk, sets investigation priorities, and drives improvement actions with stakeholders

• Owns elements of the site QMS documentation framework; establishes document control expectations and ensures readiness for customer/regulatory/ISO audits.

• Plans and leads internal audit activities within assigned scope; represent the site during external audits and drives corrective action plans for findings.

• Collaborate cross-functionally across the location:

  • Participate as a team member on site-level projects; communicate status in all directions within the location or division, creates containment actions for risks.

  • Strong communication stakeholders to enable resource alignment and timely completion of project.

  • Coordinate with primary functions (e.g., Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, or Supply Chain) to resolve issues.

• Adhere to compliance and safety standards:

  • Follow Parker policies, procedures, and applicable quality management system requirements.

  • Promote a culture of quality, safety, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience

  • Minimum of 2 years of experience in quality analysis or software testing (manual and/or automated)

• American Society for Quality certification desired.
• Thorough knowledge of state-of-the-art inspection and quality inspection and quality engineering/assurance techniques, procedures,
  instruments, equipment, theories, principles and concepts and general business operations.
• Ability to effectively assess and implement continuous improvement techniques to quality and manufacturing functions.
• Ability to use standard business applications software and/or specialized data analysis tools.
• Ability to establish goals and objectives to complete projects.
• Ability to effectively communicate and present information to team members, team leaders and top management.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to effectively demonstrate team member competencies and participate in goal-setting, performance feedback and self-development
  activities.
• Six Sigma and Lean tools experience is desired.
• Experience in maintaining and improving QS9000/ISO900 and TSI6949 Systems is desired.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.

("Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor")

If you would like more information about Equal Employment Opportunity as an applicant under the law, please go to Employees & Job Applicants | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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