Senior Quality Engineer

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Collins Aerospace is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to join our Cedar Rapids team and play a critical role in ensuring the integrity, reliability, and performance of mission-critical aerospace products. In this individual contributor role, you will serve as a trusted quality partner across engineering, manufacturing, and program teams—applying deep technical expertise to prevent defects, manage risk, and drive continuous improvement throughout the product lifecycle. Your work will have a direct and meaningful impact on product quality, customer confidence, and overall business performance.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will lead quality planning and execution across both program and product domains, utilizing tools such as PPAP, PFMEA, MSA, and process control methodologies to proactively identify and mitigate risk. You'll support new product introductions, work transfers, and process changes, while also driving root cause analysis, corrective actions, and escape management when issues arise. This role is ideal for a seasoned quality professional who thrives in a manufacturing environment, is comfortable navigating complex technical challenges, and can confidently partner with stakeholders at all levels—from factory floor teams to engineering leadership—to uphold the highest quality standards in aerospace manufacturing.

What You Will Do:

• Conducts processes to modify, apply, and maintain quality evaluation, control systems and protocols.
• Provides explanations of testing and inspection plans, methods, and technologies to assure reliability and conformance of products and processes.
• Provides analysis and recommendations for corrective actions for nonconformities and/or design problems for internally produced products & processes.
• Utilizes PPAP core elements (e.g. PFMEA, MSA, Process Flow and Control Plans, etc.) to identify and develop recommendations for managing risk in product development.
• Conducts reviews to ensure all requirements are met for work