Quality Engineering Manager

Engineering (Quality) is accountable for the effectiveness of the Quality Engineering Management System at the Lincoln facility and serves as the functional Engineering Quality leader for BURNDY New Hampshire Operations. The role leads Quality Engineering, verification and validation, product and process qualification, and quality assurance throughout product realization, ensuring requirements are effectively translated into robust designs, capable processes, and appropriate manufacturing controls. It provides direct leadership for Lincoln Quality while driving engineering standards, risk management, technical rigor, and Quality Engineering alignment across Littleton, Manchester, and Londonderry. The role ensures compliance with ISO 9001, UL, CSA, NUPIC, customer, regulatory, and company requirements while partnering cross-functionally to prevent defects, ensure production readiness, improve product and process performance, and strengthen customer satisfaction.

Primary location: Lincoln, New Hampshire. Role scope: Engineering Quality for Lincoln and functional lead for three additional New Hampshire sites. Travel: periodic business travel, up to 35%.

• Developing, approving, and maintaining Engineering Quality Plans for NPD and product transfers, establishing engineering requirements for product and process verification and validation, inspection, testing, measurement, CTQ control, qualification, documentation, and production readiness prior to release.
• Leading the identification and deployment of Critical to Quality (CTQ) characteristics and key engineering requirements, ensuring they are appropriately incorporated into drawings, specifications, PFMEAs, Control Plans, Quality Plans, inspection plans, work instructions, and manufacturing controls.
• Providing technical and engineering leadership for product and process quality issues and escalations, driving containment, structured root cause analysis, engineering investigation, corrective action, verification of effectiveness, and prevention of recurrence.
• Leading Engineering Quality activities throughout the product realization lifecycle, including engineering risk assessment, verification and validation, product and process qualification, FMEAs, Control Plans, process capability, Measurement System Analysis (MSA), supplier quality, and change control.
• Reviewing Engineering Change Notifications (ECNs) for technical and quality impact, ensuring changes are appropriately risk-assessed, verified and/or validated, and effectively flowed into drawings, specifications, manufacturing processes, inspection methods, Control Plans, work instructions, and other controlled engineering documentation.
• Applying engineering analysis and statistical methods to evaluate product and process performance, including process capability, measurement system performance, customer PPM, internal nonconformances, supplier performance, scrap, First Pass Yield, Cost of Poor Quality, audit results, and corrective action effectiveness.
• Establishing and maintaining appropriate verification and validation methods for NPD, product transfers, and engineering changes, ensuring design outputs, product requirements, manufacturing processes, tooling, measurement methods, and production controls are demonstrated to meet defined requirements prior to release.
• Partnering with Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Product Management, and Supply Chain throughout product realization to identify and mitigate technical risk, establish robust manufacturing controls, resolve engineering issues, and ensure products and processes are capable and ready for production.
• Providing Quality Engineering leadership from concept through production, ensuring design requirements, CTQs, validation requirements, manufacturing risks, process capability, measurement strategy, and acceptance criteria are defined early and matured through NPD, qualification, product transfer, launch, and sustained production.
• Leading the Lincoln Quality organization and maintaining controlled procedures, work instructions, records, quality objectives, inspection systems, product release, and nonconforming material disposition.
• Providing functional leadership, mentoring, and guidance to Quality Managers, Quality Engineers, Supervisors, Auditors, Technicians, Inspectors, and other quality personnel across New Hampshire operations.
• Supporting implementation and sustainment of the Hubbell Manufacturing System by leading Quality compliance, identifying gaps, coordinating corrective actions, and verifying ongoing adherence.
• Preparing for and leading registrar, customer, internal, supplier, and external audits; ensuring findings are addressed with timely, effective corrective and preventative actions.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum seven years of progressive engineering quality experience, including at least three years leading quality functions in an ISO 9001-certified manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead site quality operations and influence teams, priorities, and quality performance across multiple locations.
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001, root cause analysis, corrective action, risk assessment, internal auditing, supplier quality, SPC, calibration, inspection systems, and QMS documentation.
• Ability to interpret blueprints, engineering sketches, specifications, and technical documents and translate requirements into practical inspection and process controls.
• Experience with UL, CSA, NUPIC, APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, process capability, Lean Six Sigma, SAP QM, Power BI, or ASQ certification preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication, facilitation, data analysis, organizational, decision-making, conflict-resolution, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel; ability to maintain accurate records, analyze data, write clear procedures and reports, and travel periodically up to 35%.