What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Engineer - experienced (Aerospace) position at Parker Hannifin?
Conditions of Employment
This position is subject to meeting U.S. export compliance and/or U.S. Government contracting citizenship eligibility requirements.
Parker Hannifin
Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.
With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.
Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.
At Parker Aerospace, we develop technologies and innovative solutions that enable reliable, efficient and increasingly sustainable flight for the lifecycle of the aircraft, including aftermarket support. Our passionate people with deep engineering expertise, together with our breadth of differentiated technologies, ensure that we make the extraordinary happen and continue to shape the future of aviation in partnership with our customers.
As a member of our team, you are instrumental in fulfilling our mission: 'Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow.' Pursuing a career at Parker presents unlimited opportunities for both professional and personal development. Working with some of the most brilliant minds in the industry, your contributions will be pivotal in developing innovative technologies and products, significantly contributing to Parker’s goal of addressing the world’s most pressing engineering challenges. At Parker, our team members belong, matter and make a difference.
This position is subject to meeting U.S. Export Compliance and/or U.S. Government Contracting Citizenship eligibility requirements.
This is an on-site individual contributor role at our Elyria, Ohio facility.
Position Summary:
The Quality Engineer II is a site level role responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality products and services through structured testing, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration. This role typically blends hands-on test execution with test planning, light automation, data analysis, and stakeholder communication. The Quality Engineer II helps define quality standards, identify defects and root causes, and drive continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.
Essential Functions:
Education and Experience:
The essential functions have been provided as example of the type of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. The company reserves the right to modify the work assignments and/or to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions. The job description is not intended to be an inclusive list of duties and responsibilities. It is intended to describe the general nature of the position.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Additional Comments:
The essential functions have been provided as example of the type of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. The company reserves the right to modify the work assignments and/or to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions. The job description is not intended to be an inclusive list of duties and responsibilities. It is intended to describe the general nature of the position.
Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.
(“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)
If you would like more information about Equal Employment Opportunity as an applicant under the law, please go to Employees & Job Applicants | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
This position is subject to meeting U.S. export compliance and/or U.S. Government contracting citizenship eligibility requirements.
Parker Hannifin
Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.
With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.
Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.
At Parker Aerospace, we develop technologies and innovative solutions that enable reliable, efficient and increasingly sustainable flight for the lifecycle of the aircraft, including aftermarket support. Our passionate people with deep engineering expertise, together with our breadth of differentiated technologies, ensure that we make the extraordinary happen and continue to shape the future of aviation in partnership with our customers.
As a member of our team, you are instrumental in fulfilling our mission: 'Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow.' Pursuing a career at Parker presents unlimited opportunities for both professional and personal development. Working with some of the most brilliant minds in the industry, your contributions will be pivotal in developing innovative technologies and products, significantly contributing to Parker’s goal of addressing the world’s most pressing engineering challenges. At Parker, our team members belong, matter and make a difference.
This position is subject to meeting U.S. Export Compliance and/or U.S. Government Contracting Citizenship eligibility requirements.
This is an on-site individual contributor role at our Elyria, Ohio facility.
Position Summary:
The Quality Engineer II is a site level role responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality products and services through structured testing, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration. This role typically blends hands-on test execution with test planning, light automation, data analysis, and stakeholder communication. The Quality Engineer II helps define quality standards, identify defects and root causes, and drive continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.
Essential Functions:
- Interprets customer, regulatory, and Parker PQP requirements; translates requirements into site-level quality plans, controls, and acceptance criteria.
- Owns deployment and governance of PQP tools and quality procedures at the site; evaluates effectiveness and drives corrective actions for gaps:
- Drive to Parker Quality Process (PQP) methodologies and principles through deployment of PQP tools within the site.
- Leads the creation or updating of FMEAs, Control Plans, Work Instructions and related documentation under guidance.
- Performs Measurement System Analysis (MSA) activities (e.g., gage R&R) and support calibration compliance.
- Audits and drives improvement in inspection reporting to requirements and data integrity controls; utilizes inspection outcomes to identify systemic issues, implements and drives a plan to solve or improve the inspection process:
- Collect, review, and maintain inspection records; log nonconformances; generate routine quality reports.
- Oversee the incoming, in-process, and final inspection activities. Drives decisions around quality inspections to ensure they meet requirements.
- Leads containment strategy and cross-functional root cause investigations; determines appropriate analytical tools and drives CAPA selection, implementation, and effectiveness verification.:
- Ensures containment, root cause analysis (e.g., 5-Why, fishbone), and corrective/preventive actions (CAPA).
- Owns and tracks action item completion for effective verification with the responsible functions.
- Analyzes site quality performance using SPC and KPI dashboards; identifies special causes and system risk, sets investigation priorities, and drives improvement actions with stakeholders
- Owns elements of the site QMS documentation framework; establishes document control expectations and ensures readiness for customer/regulatory/ISO audits.
- Plans and leads internal audit activities within assigned scope; represent the site during external audits and drives corrective action plans for findings.
- Collaborate cross-functionally across the location:
- Participate as a team member on site-level projects; communicate status in all directions within the location or division, creates containment actions for risks.
- Strong communication stakeholders to enable resource alignment and timely completion of project.
- Coordinate with primary functions (e.g., Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, or Supply Chain) to resolve issues.
- Adhere to compliance and safety standards:
- Follow Parker policies, procedures, and applicable quality management system requirements.
- Promote a culture of quality, safety, and continuous improvement.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum of two (2) years of experience in quality analysis or software testing (manual and/or automated)
- American Society for Quality certification desired.
- Thorough knowledge of state-of-the-art inspection and quality inspection and quality engineering/assurance techniques, procedures, instruments, equipment, theories, principles and concepts and general business operations.
- Ability to effectively assess and implement continuous improvement techniques to quality and manufacturing functions.
- Ability to use standard business applications software and/or specialized data analysis tools.
- Ability to establish goals and objectives to complete projects.
- Ability to effectively communicate and present information to team members, team leaders and top management.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to effectively demonstrate team member competencies and participate in goal-setting, performance feedback and self-development activities.
- Six Sigma and Lean tools experience is desired.
- Experience in maintaining and improving QS9000/ISO900 and TSI6949 Systems is desired.
The essential functions have been provided as example of the type of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. The company reserves the right to modify the work assignments and/or to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions. The job description is not intended to be an inclusive list of duties and responsibilities. It is intended to describe the general nature of the position.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Additional Comments:
The essential functions have been provided as example of the type of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. The company reserves the right to modify the work assignments and/or to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions. The job description is not intended to be an inclusive list of duties and responsibilities. It is intended to describe the general nature of the position.
Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.
(“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)
If you would like more information about Equal Employment Opportunity as an applicant under the law, please go to Employees & Job Applicants | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission