Advanced Quality Engineer

Advanced Quality Engineer

Job Duties

• Support product quality deliverables assigned to design, critical features, and reliability analysis input to project teams. 
• Plan and participate in reliability testing and analysis, and process capability studies to determine process efficiency and suitability.
• Coordinate quality activities within manufacturing, supplier, six-sigma and product support to ensure design requirements are conveyed to the unit level and appropriate inspection, measurement, and test controls and procedures are established.  
• Provide input to manufacturing engineering and production management from process capability studies for continuous improvement. 
• Support creation (new methods) and revision (existing methods) efforts in areas with significant impact on product, process or equipment. 
• Participate in analysis and reporting of warranty returns. 
• Provide ongoing product, process, equipment and method creation/revision input to owners of quality management system elements for inclusion in system documentation. 
• Provide periodic input to the Quality Manager for the ongoing incremental improvement of the Design Support Quality Engineer function.
• Mentor new employees, technicians and student engineers as appropriate. 

Minimum Qualifications

• 5-7 years related experience
• Bachelor’s degree (Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering, Quality Assurance)
• Non-degree considered if 12+ years of related experience along with a high school diploma or GED
• Frequent travel (6-20%)
• Frequent overnight stays (6-20%)
• Job requires employee to drive a personal vehicle to conduct company business < 20% per week (8 hours) and/or travel locally between company locations during scheduled workday

Preferred Qualifications

• ASQ (or equivalent) Certified Quality or Reliability Engineer certification and/or PMP certification
• Good computer literacy, word processing skills (MS Word) and spreadsheet skills (MS Excel)
• Knowledge of databases (MS Access)
• Technical skills and training, such as quality tools and techniques, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), process capability and statistical process control (SPC) 
• Formal or informal training in problem solving methods (six-sigma, Red-X, 8D)
• Good communication skills, the ability to collaborate effectively with others, and the personal drive and sense of urgency required to deliver timely support