Quality Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Operate in the inspect, diagnose, and repair mindset.
• Provide in-process inspection activities.
• Work closely with manufacturing, process, field service and quality teams to establish and maintain processes and procedures that will ensure consistently high quality.
• Drive CAPA activity using established processes to determine the root cause of problems and drive for implementation of corrective actions and countermeasures.
• Comprehend current production quality trends based on dashboards or from occurrences in the line.
• Rapidly communicate emerging and trending quality issues.
• Execute timely corrective action for quality mitigation and containment.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support investigation, containment, and execution for strategic quality issues.
• Flexibility for dynamic changes in day-to-day work as it pertains to daily quality priorities.
• Maintain quality performance metrics and drive issues to root cause solutions.
• Audit manufacturing line against released manufacturing processes and procedures.
• Assist in the identification and resolution of manufacturing quality issues, contain parts or products as needed, sort parts for quality requirements.
• Participate in continuous improvement activities, with manufacturing and external suppliers.
• Take part in an ongoing optimization of the products with respect to both cost and production technology.
• Assist with external and internal audit activity.
• Support FMEA activities to ensure design and manufacturing issues are identified and risks mitigated.
• Analyze and disposition product nonconformances as a member of the Material Review Board.
• Analyze and interpret data independently.
• Anticipate potential problems and take preventative action.
• Help running supplier continuous improvement plans.

Qualifications

Required: Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited university.

Required: Minimum of 1 – 5 years of experience working with industry standards that include ISO 9001 and AS9100.

Required: Experience processing CAPAs, NCRs and extensive problem-solving, root cause analysis.

Required: Experience in reading and interpreting mechanical drawings.

Required: Experience with Lean Manufacturing/Six Sigma practices, 5S, TPS, TQM, etc.

High commitment to contribute to a positive, high paced, and results oriented work environment.

Strong desire to work for a dynamic company working on disruptive technologies and make it a success, high level of tolerance to ambiguity.

Creativity in problem solving; ability to quantify problems and develop analytical solution development, proficient in data-driven decision making.

Demonstrated ability to be disciplined in approach and thought process.

Team-oriented and self-directed.

High level of accountability.

Experience within quality systems in a medium/high volume manufacturing environment.

Experience with ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO/TS 16949, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, DFMEA, PFMEA preferred.

Strong aptitude for electronic test and measurements systems.

Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, ability to lift and sort parts of up to 30 pounds as needed.

Detail oriented with strong record-keeping and organizational skills.

Ability to use technological tools and business system applications to manage, synthesize, and interpret data.

Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) highly desired.

Work Environment:

Work is performed in an office setting as well as on the manufacturing floor. Work may be performed in emergency and stressful situations and may include handling of hazardous materials.