Quality Validation Engineer

Career Area: Engineering

Occupation Group: Mechanical and Related Engineers

Salary

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A typical Quality Validation Engineer earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $78,800

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $82,036

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Evaluates, tests and documents the validity and accuracy of manufacturing systems and equipment. Calibrates and maintains equipment and tests manufacturing processes and systems. Creates documentation to show that a manufacturing process has consistent results and ensures that a quality product is produced.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Quality Validation Engineer is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
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Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Quality Assurance and Control: Working experience with processes used to measure and assure the quality of a product and ensuring products and services meet consumer expectations.
• Quality Management: Working experience of Quality Management. Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service is consistent. It has four main components: quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement. Quality management is focused not only on product and service quality, but also on the means to achieve it. Quality management, therefore, uses quality assurance and control of processes as well as products to achieve more consistent quality.
• Root Cause Analysis: Root cause analysis (RCA) is a method of problem solving used for identifying the root causes of faults or problems.
• Manufacturing Processes: Experience working within and designing manufacturing processes to combine raw materials or components into a final product.
• ISO 9001 Standards: The ISO 9000 family of quality management systems standards is designed to help organizations ensure that they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders while meeting statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product or program.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Quality Validation Engineer that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Process Validation: Process Validation is the analysis of data gathered throughout the design and manufacturing of a product in order to confirm that the process can reliably output products of a determined standard.
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T): Working experience of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), which is a language of symbols and standards designed and used by engineers and manufacturers to describe a product and facilitate communication between entities working together to produce something.
• Product Design: Product design as a verb is to create a new product to be sold by a business to its customers.
• Statistical Process Control (SPC): Working experience of Statistical Process Control (SPC), which is an industry-standard methodology for measuring and controlling quality during the manufacturing process. Quality data in the form of Product or Process measurements are obtained in real-time during manufacturing.
• Failure Analysis: Failure analysis is the process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the cause of a failure, often with the goal of determining corrective actions or liability.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Manufacturing Engineering: Manufacturing Engineering is a branch of professional engineering concerned with the understanding and application of Engineering Procedures in Manufacturing Processes and Production Methods.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Quality Engineer
• Senior Quality Engineer
• Quality Engineer II
• Quality Engineer I
• Development Quality Engineer II

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• Product Quality Engineer
• Reliability Engineer
• Process Quality Engineer