Job Title: Quality Engineer
Job Function: Manufacturing Quality
Job Overview:
The Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring that products meet or exceed customer expectations for quality and reliability. Quality Engineer will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and implement quality control processes, from material quality, process quality, product quality, customer quality-related support, and drive for continuous improvement. Reports to Executive Vice President. Located in Newark, CA.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Develop and implement quality control processes to ensure customer satisfaction:
- Study and understand the customer requirements on material quality, process quality, and product quality.
- Develop and implement internal quality control/ quality assurance processes to meet customer requirements.
- Communicate with the customer on quality issues, quality requests, and quality support.
- Support customer audit activities.
2. Develop and implement quality control processes to ensure material quality:
- Develop and implement incoming quality inspection methods and sampling plans according to the customer requirements, and quality history of the materials.
- Training for Incoming quality personnel for the incoming inspection procedures and criteria.
- Monitor and support receiving, and incoming quality inspection processes to solve material quality issues.
3*.Develop and implement quality control processes to ensure product quality in the process:*
- Develop and implement quality control in the process to ensure compliance of product quality to the Customer requirements.
- Review and drive improvement for quality issues throughout the processes
- Conduct process/product quality audits and drive corrective actions.
- Training for process personnel for the customer quality requirements and quality control plan.
- Review, and analyze the process quality data and drive for continuous improvement.
4.Quality Data Analysis, Statistical Analysis, and maintain effectiveness of Management Systems:
- Conduct quality data analysis, and monitor quality trends from the material quality and supplier quality performance.
- Conduct quality data analysis, and monitor quality trends from the process, product, and Customer satisfaction on quality.
- Develop Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (P-FMEA) to identify the potential risks for the manufacturing process and products.
- Develop Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (D-FMEA) to identify the potential risks to the product and the users, when required.
- Develop Quality Control Plan and implement Quality Control activities to ensure product quality.
- Develop and implement the Statistical Process Control (SPC), Statistical Quality Control (SQC), and Measurement System Statistical Analysis (MSA) methodologies to monitor, improve and sustain the quality.
- When needed, develop and update the quality documents according to requirements for improvement, customer, or applicable regulatory requirements.
- Support to maintain compliance and effectiveness of applicable Quality Management Systems (QMS, such as ISO9001, IATF16949, ISO13485, etc) and Environmental Management System (EMS, such as ISO14001) of the company.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Electronics, Mechanical, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of experience in quality engineering, quality control.
- Strong understanding of material quality, quality management systems, statistical process control, problem-solving, and root cause analysis.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Experience in the PCBA or SMT manufacturing industry is preferred.
- Experience with electronic or semiconductor components is preferred.
- Certified IPC610 certification is strongly preferred.
- Certify or experience in any of IATF, Automotive 5 Core-tools, ISO13485, FDA, ISO14001, ISO9001, or Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certification is strongly preferred.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $80,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Work Location: In person