Quality Engineer III

About the role

HME is seeking a Quality Engineer III to join our dynamic team. This position offers opportunities for professional growth and innovation within a supportive, global environment.

Responsibilities

• Applies advanced quality methods, process controls, and best practices ensuring compliance to applicable standards, procedures, and requirements relating to the product throughout the product life cycle.
• Participates and provides quality-specific input, direction, and guidance to the product line or product teams during team meetings and team reviews, etc.
• Led root cause failure investigations working in concert with internal and external departments in support of ISO9001 corrective/preventive action process.
• Provides Quality input relating to the testing of critical components ensuring compliance with applicable specifications, standards, and requirements.
• Provides Quality input and support during prototype/pilot runs to ensure compliance with applicable specifications and standards.
• Leverages product and process knowledge driving continuous improvements in product and process quality.
• Authors and instructs operators on test plans, inspection instructions, and other process documents as required pertaining to assigned product line(s) and projects.
• Serves as the Quality gate for releasing assigned products to production.
• Serves as the Quality Representative to provide fact-based guidance to remove subjectivity and resolve issues.
• Develops, institutes, and monitors manufacturing, repair, or other pertinent process metrics to objectively measure and track quality trends throughout the product life cycle.
• Prepares, publishes and presents to peers and management (as required) product quality (trend/failure/reliability) process metrics and related trend analyses pertaining to the assigned product line(s).
• Owns and executes assigned actions and special projects to support HME’s commitment to quality and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal communication, organizational, and presentation skills.
• Knowledge and application of Microsoft Office tools: Access, Excel, Word, Visio, and PowerBI.
• Excellent interpersonal and teaming skills.
• Familiarity in the use and application of destructive and non-destructive test methods and related equipment.
• Experience in interpretation of ANSI GD&T Standards.
• Quality trend analysis and reporting skills.
• Knowledge and application of ANSI Z1.4 and MIL-STD-105 sampling methods.
• Preferred: Lean - Six Sigma Green or Black Belt Certification.
• Knowledge of IPC-A-610.
• ASQ Certifications: CQM, CQE, CQA.
• ISO9001:2015 Lead Auditor certification or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 5+ years.
• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement.
• 3 weeks paid vacation your first year, paid holidays.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Pet insurance.
• Life insurance.
• 401K contributions.