Senior PQA Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities

• Product Quality Planning
  • Participate in NPI and Manufacturing Readiness Reviews.
  • Lead PFMEA, Control Plan, FAI and quality inspection planning activities.
  • Ensure customer quality requirements are properly translated into manufacturing and quality control requirements.
  • Establish product quality control standards and validation mechanisms for new products.
• Product Quality Management
  • Monitor production quality performance.
  • Analyze quality trends and drive improvement activities.
  • Lead investigations and corrective actions for major quality issues.
  • Establish quality KPIs and monitoring mechanisms.
• Problem Solving & Continuous Improvement
  • Utilize 8D, RCA, and CAPA methodologies to drive problem resolution.
  • Conduct process capability analysis and improvement activities.
  • Reduce defect rates, rework, and cost of poor quality.
  • Drive Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives.
• Customer Quality Support
  • Support customer audits and certification activities.
  • Respond to customer quality issues and track corrective action effectiveness.
  • Participate in customer quality reviews and quality assessment activities.
• Cross‑functional Collaboration
  • Collaborate with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, and R&D teams.
  • Participate in quality risk assessments and product change management activities.
  • Provide quality expertise and technical guidance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of quality experience in EMS, networking products, automotive electronics, or industrial electronics manufacturing.
• Experience in NPI, production quality management, and customer quality support.
• Experience leading cross‑functional quality improvement projects.
• Experience supporting greenfield factory start‑up or overseas manufacturing sites (preferred).
• Experience with Quality Management Systems, Product Quality Assurance, PFMEA/Control Plan/FAI/SPC/MSA/8D/RCA/CAPA, Quality Auditing, Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), Verification and Validation (V&V), Data Analysis, Risk Management, and Change Management.
• Language skills: Chinese and English required; Spanish a plus.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Quality Engineering, or related fields.
• Primary working location: Texas, United States.
• Additional technical skills:
  • Acceptance Test Procedures, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
  • Data Validation, Data Verification
  • Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), Error Analysis (Numerical Analysis)
  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Detection and Isolation
  • Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Instrumentation Controls, ISO 9000
  • Minitab and SAS statistical software, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Statistical Analysis, Statistics
  • Product Inspections, Visual Inspections, Technical Documentation, Testing Operations