Quality Engineer- Electronics Products & Systems

Position Summary

The Quality Engineer will function in a dynamic Product Development Team and will work closely with the engineering department and Senior Electronics Engineers to help document functional, regulatory and environmental requirements for electronic products and systems. In addition, the Quality Engineer shall support both Legacy and New product designs related to quality issues. The Quality engineer will work with the RMA department to identify trends that will help identify quality issues and work with engineering to correct the issues. The Quality engineer will work with engineering and help guide and make sure we are following our ISO requirements and standards.

Essential Functions

• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice quality vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
• Work with Engineering to develop standards that will be used across the different business units, so hardware is developed to the same standards and quality.
• Directly with the various Contract manufactures to address problems and develop standards to be utilized.
• Work with Engineering (Design and Manufacturing Engineers) team to define process parameters and criteria to ensure supplier process capability is effective to meet product and process requirements.
• Interfaces with customers, suppliers, and program personnel on quality related issues.
• Support Purchasing and Contract Manufactures to coordinate with engineering on supply chain issues and part replacements.
• Help manage the root cause analysis and corrective actions process of both supplier quality issues and Quality issues from Contract Manufactures.
• Affords on-site supplier visits for root cause analysis and verification of corrective actions of Contract Manufacture quality issues.
• Administers and oversee all ISO 9001:2015 quality system requirements related to all sites as required.
• Work with engineering to validate the Electronic department processes and resources are being followed during development.
• Performs assessments and audits on processes and procedures to ensure compliance to specifications, engineering drawings, procedures as required by Quality / ISO commitments.
• Review product specifications necessary to establish quality and reliability objectives for the Electronics department.
• Mine and investigate issue data gathered by tech & customer service to identify trends or incipient field issues and call for action to prevent minor issues from growing into larger problems.
• Work across the 4 NA business units.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in either quality, engineering, supply chain management or manufacturing processes.
• Must be able to travel as needed to support regional activities.
• 5+ years' experience with at least 2 years in a supplier quality role.

Education and Experience

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Regularly required to: Sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and use hands to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Regularly lift and /or move up to ten pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to fifty pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
• Physical Demands: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to the following environmental conditions: Moving mechanical parts; outside weather conditions and vibration.