Flex

Quality Engineer

Flex$89K — $122K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience required.
  • 6 years of engineering experience in the medical device industry, specifically with injection molding and tooling.
  • Proficient in advanced mathematical concepts including permutations and statistical analysis.
  • Ability to interpret complex technical instructions and deal with abstract variables.
  • Skilled in various quality testing and inspection tools, including oscilloscopes and measuring tools.

Responsibilities

  • Develops quality inspection, testing, and evaluation standards.
  • Designs sampling procedures and quality data reporting forms.
  • Implements procedures for handling discrepant materials and assessing costs.
  • Leads testing efforts and compiles quality-related data.
  • Conducts training on quality control activities and produces training materials.
  • Initiates and tracks corrective action requests to completion.
  • Develops and enforces quality standards for finished products.

Benefits

  • Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Life insurance coverage.
  • Short-term and long-term disability benefits.
  • Matching 401(k) contributions.
  • Paid vacation and sick time.
  • Tuition reimbursement for further education.
Full Job Description
Job Summary

The Quality Engineer will be based in Buffalo Gove, IL, reporting to 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 were looking to add to our team:

  • Typically requires a Bachelors degree in related field or equivalent experience.
  • Typically requires 6 years of experience in engineering in the medical device industry with injection molding and tooling background.
  • 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 Flexs functional standards.
  • Typically requires skill and troubleshooting, and diagnostics, and overview of the entire test process and the ability to train others.

What youll 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

Application Deadline:

Applications for this job position will be accepted for at least five days following the job posting start date below and continuing until the end date below or until the position is filled. This posting may close sooner due to application volume.

Job Posting Start Date 09-17-2026 Job Posting End Date 11-17-2026

The base pay range for this position is provided below. The final base rate offered will be determined using job-related, non-discriminatory criteria, including but not limited to experience, qualifications, geographic location, education, external market data, and internal equity.

$89,200.00 USD - $122,700.00 USDAnnual

Job CategoryQuality

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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