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Quality Engineer

The Timken Company
Rutherfordton, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 4/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/2/2026
What Timken Makes Possible Begins With You.

Those who came before us helped land a man on the moon, create the world's infrastructure, and introduce renewable energy alternatives. Now you can join the Timken team to write your own unique story and help drive what's next.

A career at Timken means you can have an immediate impact doing Work That Matters to the world— improving the efficiency of today's industrial equipment and preparing for the future of motion on our planet and beyond. New employees can start contributing right away, and there are many opportunities to advance your career at your own pace. Join our global team of 19,000 people in 45 countries, and start helping our customers push the limits of what's possible in their world of motion.

What We Offer

  • Competitive pay
  • Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Benefits start on first day of employment
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with generous company match
  • 10 paid holidays per year plus paid vacation
  • Paid parental leave at one year of service
  • Employee discounts on products and services
  • Education expense reimbursement at one year of service
  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth

Position Summary

The Quality Engineer will be instrumental in assuring that product conforms to internal and external requirements and will drive and support the quality systems, procedure maintenance, and new procedure implementation.

Essential Responsibilities

  • Maintain AS9100 Rev. D and ISO9001:2015 quality systems, and resolve AS, ISO, and NADCAP issues.
  • Participate in customer and third-party audits of the Shiloh Plant quality system.
  • Oversee nonconforming products through active participation with the material review board, scrap mitigation, and internal failure management.
  • Lead quality planning activities for new products to meet AS9100, ISO9001:2015, NADCAP, and customer requirements.
  • Investigate and respond promptly to product quality and manufacturing issues, and address customer inquiries and complaints.
  • Conduct Deep Dive analyses on systemic issues and implement root cause corrective actions.
  • Train associates on quality system procedures and work instructions.
  • Communicate effectively to resolve quality system issues within local operations, other Timken locations, business units, customers, and suppliers.
  • Assist with responsibilities in metrology and calibration labs.
  • Manage gauge systems, including calibration, gauge MSA activities, and troubleshooting production gauging.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field
  • Minimum two years quality engineering in a manufacturing environment

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

  • Certified Quality Engineer
  • Experience with and understanding of quality core tools (e.g., FMEA, Control Plans, MSA, PPAPs, etc.)
  • Skill in quality planning from new product introduction to current product advancement.
  • Understanding of quality systems requirements of AS9100, ISO 9001, NADCAP, etc.
  • Blueprint reading skills and knowledge of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
  • Experience with gauge calibration monitoring software Indysoft Insite.
  • Experience with other fundamental quality tools (pareto charts, cause and effect diagrams, 8D, 5-Why, etc.)
  • Auditing skills and ability to evaluate compliance to quality standards.
  • Ability to apply logic, reasoning, and data analysis to solve complex problems.
  • Project management skills and ability to lead a team to implement actions for improvement.

This position may require access to United States export controlled technical data (“CTD”) and hardware under the Departments of US State (ITAR) and/or Commerce (EAR). Eligible candidates are; US Citizens, Green Card holders, Asylees or others eligible to receive US export license authorizations. Candidate must be authorized to work in the US.

All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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