Provides advanced quality-engineering leadership for manufacturing operations. Leads nonconformance investigations, corrective and preventive actions, customer complaints, audits, risk management, quality-system improvements, control plans, inspection standards, calibration, and quality metrics. Partners with engineering, production, suppliers, and customer service to reduce process variation and improve product quality. Oversees change control, CMM programming, process capability analysis, GR&R studies, qualification activities, and cost-of-poor-quality reduction.