Tool liaison vs quality engineer

The differences between tool liaisons and quality engineers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both a tool liaison and a quality engineer. Additionally, a tool liaison has an average salary of $83,524, which is higher than the $79,672 average annual salary of a quality engineer.

The top three skills for a tool liaison include jigs, CATIA and design requests. The most important skills for a quality engineer are corrective action, continuous improvement, and ISO.

Tool liaison vs quality engineer overview

	Tool Liaison	Quality Engineer
Yearly salary	$83,524	$79,672
Hourly rate	$40.16	$38.30
Growth rate	10%	10%
Number of jobs	13,025	96,838
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 63%	Bachelor's Degree, 70%
Average age	42	42
Years of experience	4	4

Tool liaison vs quality engineer salary

Tool liaisons and quality engineers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Tool Liaison	Quality Engineer
Average salary	$83,524	$79,672
Salary range	Between $42,000 And $163,000	Between $61,000 And $103,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	Washington
Best paying company	-	Meta
Best paying industry	-	Technology

Differences between tool liaison and quality engineer education

There are a few differences between a tool liaison and a quality engineer in terms of educational background:

	Tool Liaison	Quality Engineer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 63%	Bachelor's Degree, 70%
Most common major	Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Most common college	Northwestern University	Northwestern University

Tool liaison vs quality engineer demographics

Here are the differences between tool liaisons' and quality engineers' demographics:

	Tool Liaison	Quality Engineer
Average age	42	42
Gender ratio	Male, 89.2% Female, 10.8%	Male, 78.2% Female, 21.8%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.9% Unknown, 4.0% Hispanic or Latino, 12.0% Asian, 9.6% White, 69.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 4.7% Unknown, 3.9% Hispanic or Latino, 11.5% Asian, 13.9% White, 65.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	4%	4%

Differences between tool liaison and quality engineer duties and responsibilities

Tool liaison example responsibilities.

Apply for and achieve ISO certification.
Manage implementation of these solutions with hangar managers, inspectors, technicians, vendors, and OEM's.
Review changes and issues utilizing CATIA and VPM.
Design work are produced both on paper and on CATIA V4.
Collaborate with CMM equipment in the inspection of inventory shipments, ensuring all materials comply with government quality requirements and specifications.
Perform some QA inspections with raw sheet material for customer qualifications and cost saving projects.

Quality engineer example responsibilities.

Lead internal and customer 8D iniatives using the 6-Sigma DMAIC approach to problem solving.
Manage and develop QA lab personnel, ensuring reliable food safety and manufacturing quality support.
Give guidance to Apple/Asian SQE's and supplier QA, insuring that all quality requirements are being addressed and achieve.
Lead interdisciplinary teams in addressing and resolving problems utilizing Kaizen event , 8D, and 5-why to arrive at root cause.
Lead project to develop and implement quality and environmental management systems to achieve & maintain ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certification.
Manage aerospace resolver manufacturing transfer from out-of-state acquisition.

Tool liaison vs quality engineer skills

Common tool liaison skills

Jigs, 56%
CATIA, 29%
Design Requests, 16%

Common quality engineer skills

Corrective Action, 7%
Continuous Improvement, 6%
ISO, 5%
Quality Standards, 5%
Sigma, 4%
Product Quality, 4%