Novanta Inc.
Quality Engineer
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Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.
Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.
Quality Engineer
Stockport - Hybrid Working Available
Based at Novanta's Laser Technologies Centre of Excellence
At Novanta, our technologies help power innovations transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing across the globe. From robotic surgery and medical devices to advanced automation and precision manufacturing systems, our products support mission-critical applications where performance and reliability are essential.
We are seeking a Quality Engineer to become a key technical expert within our global quality organisation.
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Why This Role Is Exciting
You will have the opportunity to:
- Lead reliability engineering activities for cutting-edge products
- Shape product validation strategies and qualification programmes
- Drive complex failure investigations that influence future product designs
- Analyse manufacturing and field performance data to identify reliability improvements
- Partner with engineering, R&D, manufacturing and quality teams globally
- Influence critical decisions during product launches, manufacturing transfers and customer qualifications
- Create data-driven reliability models and predictive insights that shape business strategy
What You Will Be Doing:
- Leading reliability validation and qualification activities
- Designing and executing accelerated life testing programmes
- Performing failure investigations and root cause analysis
- Developing reliability models and performance dashboards
- Supporting NPI and manufacturing transfer initiatives
- Driving corrective actions to improve reliability and customer satisfaction
- Supporting customer audits and technical reviews
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You will bring experience in:
- Reliability Engineering
- Product Validation
- Failure Analysis
- Root Cause Investigation
- Statistical Analysis
- Manufacturing Environments
- Data Analytics Tools such as Minitab, JMP, Power BI or Excel
Why Join Novanta?
- Global technology leader
- Products with meaningful impact
- Collaborative engineering culture
- High levels of technical autonomy
- Strong investment in innovation
- Career development within a global organisation
If you are passionate about quality and reliability engineering and data-driven improvements, we want to hear from you. Apply today or reach out to Rebecca Pelham to discuss further.
Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.
Please call +1 781-266-5700 if you need a disability accommodation for any part of the employment process.
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