Development Quality Engineer

Position: Quality Engineer – Valley Green, PA

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for communications, mobile, RF, optics, and commercial electronics markets. ACS designs and manufactures innovative connectors and cable assemblies for applications including servers, storage, data centers, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.

Responsibilities

• Act as a team member to manage projects assessing quality aspects, reporting process feasibility and risks, and making quality recommendations.
• Interface with vendors, process engineering, product engineering, and manufacturing to ensure capability levels and documentation compliance meet quality deliverables.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams to investigate deviation events, recommend corrective actions and product disposition, and develop improvements using Lean tools and analytical methods (e.g., FMEA, SPC, 5‑Why, DMAIC, risk assessments, fishbone diagrams).
• Collaborate with site quality, engineering, and other departments during final development phases and pre‑release to manufacturing.
• Participate in defining project qualification tasks and schedules that meet time‑to‑market objectives.
• Determine initial inspection methods based on best‑known practices and manage metrology requirements.
• Facilitate process qualification planning, ensuring conformance to standards and specifications; define qualification plans, inspection workflows, metrology needs, and workmanship standards.
• Support quality readiness by providing inspection plans, metrology, Cpk requirements, and any special qualification needs.
• Analyze risk areas, conduct feasibility studies, proof‑of‑concept tooling, capability studies, detailed design analysis, DOE, passive data collection, and basic technology searches.
• Participate in product and process FMEA, characterize critical features, and conduct risk assessments.
• Develop, facilitate, and control internal and external inspection standards and methods for CTFs, including accuracy, linearity, R&R, long‑term stability, FAI, Cmk, and Cpk.
• Analyze operating data (yield, cycle time, throughput) to identify improvement opportunities using Six Sigma, Lean, and related tools.
• Assist product and process engineering in reconciling first‑article inspections, capability studies, and comparison studies through root‑cause‑driven corrective actions.
• Support process development and mechanical integrity engineers with data and statistical analysis of feasibility studies, DOE, passive data collection, and capability studies.
• Advance operations capabilities by collaborating with the Quality Team to implement new test methods and best practices.
• Coordinate or participate in metrology transfer and training for relevant personnel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality assurance, or a related field, or six to eight years of related experience/training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
• Proficient in writing reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals; skilled at presenting information and responding to questions from managers, customers, and internal groups.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and eliminate common‑cause variation in continuous or batch processes using statistical process control (SPC).
• Experience defining and generating Quality Plans, Control Plans, and Workmanship Standards.
• Capability to assess product/process risks, capability, and manufacturability for qualification purposes.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, SharePoint).
• Experience with Measurement System Analysis, statistical analysis software (e.g., Minitab), and Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing.
• Deep understanding of Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (R&R).
• Proven skill in training individuals and teams.
• Ability to operate with minimal supervision, provide project status updates, and facilitate issue resolution.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally to support product development and process ramps.