Product Quality Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain quality assurance standards and inspection processes for products.
• Conduct detailed testing and inspections to ensure products comply with established quality standards.
• Analyze and interpret quality data to identify trends and areas needing improvement.
• Generate test reports and document findings with actionable recommendations.
• Assist with laboratory assessments as needed to address service requests.
• Take a proactive approach to continuous improvement in productivity, quality, and safety.
• Investigate product malfunctions or material defects, analyze failures/non-conformities, and document findings.
• Create and assign corrective actions and coordinate timely and effective resolutions for internal and external issues.
• Initiate efforts to prevent nonconformities.
• Identify, document, and monitor nonconformities to ensure corrective actions are effective.
• Standardize solutions to prevent future nonconformities.
• Work closely with engineering to evaluate processes, equipment, and suppliers to ensure production efficiency.
• Partner with production teams to integrate process improvements effectively.
• Conduct Gage R&R (Repeatability and Reproducibility) studies and develop reliable tools and inspection gages for assembly processes.
• Update and maintain comprehensive quality documents (e.g., RMAs, FMEAs, control plans).
• Support for incoming and outgoing quality inspections.
• Assist suppliers with meeting acceptable quality standards through incoming inspections.
• Oversee internal product checks to ensure acceptable quality levels before final shipping (outgoing inspections).
• Collect data, analyze it, and select actionable alternatives to solve quality-related problems.
• Provide technical guidance and support to departments regarding quality processes.
• Facilitate cross-departmental problem-solving and communication to address production/service challenges.
• Career development and training opportunities provided.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality Management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3+ years of experience in product quality engineering or a similar role.
• In lieu of a degree, a high school diploma and 5+ years of recent Quality Engineering experience within a production or manufacturing environment.
• 2+ years prior experience in manufacturing or production industries.
• Expertise in metrology equipment, uses and limitations (required).
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings (required).
• Good knowledge of Geometric tolerances and dimensioning (required).
• Applied experience with basic quality tools such as RCCA methodologies, value-stream maps, flowcharts, PFMEA, and PDCA.
• Applied understanding of ISO 9001 or an equivalent system.
• Certification in quality management (e.g., CQE, CQA) is a plus.
• Ability to be able to enter and work in a cleanroom environment.
• Strong understanding of materials and ability to implement and understand SPC analysis.
• Strong computer skills: particularly Microsoft Office 365 suite and SAP knowledge.
• Technical knowledge and experience (mechanical, electrical, software).
• Must possess the ability to substantiate and clearly communicate information to an international audience.
• Excellent listening and communication skills, curiosity, comprehension, self-motivation, problem-solving skills.
• Ability to define own tasks and demonstrate solid work ethic and team oriented behavior.