Process Quality Engineer, Solar Manufacturing

What You'll Do

• Develop manufacturing requirements, quality standards, and product quality plans to ensure products meet expectations of our target customers
• Lead development of FMEAs (Design & Process) to identify and address critical risks
• Deploy manufacturing level requirements to subsystems, assemblies, and components to ensure clear focus on design and customer needs
• Support development of manufacturing equipment, controls, and test plans to address risks identified in FMEAs
• Design effective experiments through DOE or other methods to support design teams in investigation of various alternatives or in design validation testing for solar cell processes including ingot growth, wafer processing, and cell fabrication
• Afford statistical tolerancing, Monte Carlo analysis, and other methods to investigate the effects of part and process variability on system performance
• Support process capability analyses (Cpk studies) to investigate the ability of suppliers and production processes to meet defined specifications and quality standards
• Develop process control strategies for key variables including resistivity uniformity, wafer thickness, and cell efficiency
• Manage and facilitate the root cause and corrective actions system through tracking and validation of issues, supporting root cause analysis through facilitating brainstorming, use of lean methodologies, hypothesis testing, and design of experiments
• Mentor Senior Quality Engineers and develop team capability through structured knowledge transfer

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical, Materials Science Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience in quality or process engineering in solar, semiconductor, or related manufacturing
• Specific training and demonstrated success in applying design for quality and problem-solving methodologies including FMEA, process capability analysis, hypothesis testing, DOE, SPC, statistical tolerancing
• Strong background and demonstrated success applying statistical methods and quality tools
• Expert knowledge of crystalline silicon solar cell manufacturing including ingot growth (Czochralski), wafer slicing, cell processing
• Hands-on experience with solar cell characterization techniques including I-V measurement, photoluminescence imaging
• Proficiency with Minitab, JMP, or other statistical software and data analysis tools
• Data mining and database experience (e.g., SQL, MES)
• ASQ or Six Sigma certification strongly preferred
• Minitab, JMP or other statistical software capabilities are preferred

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Medical plans
• Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits
• Dental and vision plans
• HSA Contribution
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plans
• Basic life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time
• Paid holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program