Flex

Quality Engineer

Flex$74K — $102K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • 4 years of experience in high technology electronics engineering or related field
  • Advanced mathematical skills including exponents, logarithms, and statistical analysis
  • Familiarity with electronic assembly tools and PCB operations
  • Experience with testing and inspection tools such as oscilloscopes and microscopes
  • Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic abilities
  • Knowledge of Flex's functional standards and policies

Responsibilities

  • Develops and initiates inspection and testing standards
  • Creates procedures for evaluating and reporting quality data
  • Implements processes for managing discrepant materials
  • Directs teams in measuring and testing product quality
  • Designs training materials and conducts training on quality control
  • Reports and consolidates quality results while ensuring data integrity
  • Initiates and tracks corrective action requests
  • Assists in the development of quality audits

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Life insurance coverage
  • Short-term and long-term disability benefits
  • Matching contributions to 401(k) plans
  • Paid vacation and sick time off
  • Tuition reimbursement program
Full Job Description
Job Posting Start Date 02-16-2026 Job Posting End Date

Job Summary

Summary:

The "Quality Engineer" will be based in Buffalo Grove, reporting to the Quality Manager.

In this role, you will be maintaining quality engineering programs, standards and improvements within the organization.

What a typical day looks like:
  • Develops and initiates standards and methods for inspection, testing and evaluation.
  • Devises sampling procedures and designs and develops forms and instructions for recording, evaluating and reporting quality and reliability data.
  • Develops and implements methods and procedures for disposition of discrepant material and devises methods to assess cost.
  • Directs workers engaged in measuring and testing product and tabulating data concerning materials, product or process quality and reliability.
  • Compiles and writes training material and conducts training sessions on quality control activities.
  • Holds up Product Engineers and Quality Program Managers with customer interfaces as necessary on quality related issues.
  • Assures data availability and integrity for all quality related data. Consolidates and reports quality results.
  • Initiates corrective action requests as needed and tracks to satisfactory completion.
  • Assists with development and implementation of quality audits.
  • In charge of developing, applying, revising and maintaining quality standards for processing materials into partially finished or finished products.
  • Designs and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and/or production equipment.
  • Explores reports and returned products and recommends corrective action.
  • Establishes program to evaluate precision and accuracy of production equipment and testing, measurement and research of equipment and facilities.
  • Approves product, process and equipment qualifications.
  • Provides liaison to various regulatory bodies.


The experience we're looking to add to our team:
  • Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience.
  • Typically requires 4 years of experience in engineering in the high technology electronics industry or related field.
  • Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations and permutations.
  • Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory and factor analysis.
  • Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form, and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
  • Use of the following tools may be required:
  • Electronic Assembly: color code, component, schematics. May require various PCB operations.
  • Testing: oscilloscope, cable and harness testing, trouble shooting, component testing, logic analyzer.
  • Inspection: bare board, systems, components, cable and harness, microscope, measuring tools.
  • Mechanical & Electrical Tools: taps and dies, alignment tools, measuring tools. Office skills: telephones, data entry, office software to include, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation package.
  • Demonstrates operations and technical skills and understanding of Flex's functional standards.
  • Demonstrates working knowledge of functional concepts and a solid understanding of Flex policies and procedures. Typically requires some knowledge of computerized electronic test equipment and programming.
  • Demonstrates advanced functional and technical skills and basic process skills. Demonstrates advanced/thorough knowledge of the function and Flex business.
  • Typically requires skill and troubleshooting, and diagnostics, and overview of the entire test process and the ability to train others.


What you'll receive for the great work you provide:
  • Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Life Insurance
  • Short-term and Long-term Disability
  • Matching 401(k) Contributions
  • Vacation and Paid Sick Time
  • Tuition Reimbursement


Pay Range (Applicable to Illinois)

$74,500.00 USD - $102,500.00 USD Annual

Job Category
Quality

Relocation: Eligible for domestic relocation only

Is Sponsorship Available?
No

About Flex

Flex Ltd. is an American Singaporean-domiciled multinational electronics contract manufacturer. It is the third largest global electronics manufacturing services (EMS), original design manufacturer (ODM) company by revenue, behind only Pegatron for what concerns original equipment manufacturers. Flex has manufacturing operations in over 30 countries, totaling approximately 200,000 employees.
Learn more about Flex
Size
172,648 employees
Market Cap
$9.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$421 million
Founded
2016
5 Year Trend
+1.8%
Revenue
$23.3 billion
NASDAQ

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