Quality Engineer
Location
Orange, MA
Wage
$60,000 – $80,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
TIG Welding
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Posted on July 28, 2026
Job Description
Overview
Join a company projecting 200% growth over the next 5 years as a Quality Engineer with strong advancement potential. The client is a long-established industrial manufacturer known for producing highly engineered products that support critical infrastructure and industrial applications.
Responsibilities
- Oversee welding quality throughout the manufacturing process.
- Perform weld inspections to ensure compliance with company and industry standards.
- Verify products meet AWS and internal quality requirements.
- Partner closely with welders, supervisors, and production personnel to resolve quality concerns.
- Read and interpret blueprints, engineering drawings, and technical specifications.
- Develop, update, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Support root cause investigations and corrective actions.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the manufacturing floor.
- Ensure quality processes are consistently followed throughout production.
- Spend significant time in a hands-on manufacturing environment supporting daily operations.
How this job compares in Orange, MA
Pay in context
At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 20% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Massachusetts — toward the top of a $25–$32/hr middle band drawn from 21 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 76% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
The local market in Orange, MA
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Orange, MA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Massachusetts as a whole we're tracking 33 other active welding openings from 29 employers. Browse welding jobs across Massachusetts.
The most active employers in Massachusetts at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Colonna's Shipyard, Inc. (3), GE Aerospace (2), and Welding Shop in Boston, MA (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
What you'll be running
This posting calls for TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Quality Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.