Associate Quality Engineer

Position Summary

• Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Learns to identify Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by disposition of non‐conforming material, assessing in identification of primary root causes and understanding corrective and preventive actions. May be responsible for working with process owner to bound product stops and document release criteria.
• Assists in development of product quality plans, documents and systems by providing input to product specification, quality specification, quality plans, risk analyses, FMEAs in conjunction with other product development team members. May be responsible for providing input to risk analyses and FMEAs.
• Learns Process Monitoring Systems by becoming familiar with systems applications and critical process steps; and through familiarization with methods used to reduce process variation.
• Becomes familiar with Product/Process improvement efforts by understanding current quality metric data and learning the various analysis methods used to enhance sustaining product design and new product development; learns Quality Tools & Training Materials by gaining knowledge of prevalent tools used and by reviewing & utilizing available training materials.
• Assist Product/Process improvement efforts (e.g). scrap, nonconforming product, customer complains) by systematically gathering quality metric data and by assesing in the appropriated analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design.

Accountability

• Influence/Leadership: Begins developing a network of internal resources to facilitate completion of tasks. Individual influence is typically exerted at the peer level.
• Planning/Organization: Completes daily work to meet established schedule with guidance from supervisor on prioritization of tasks.
• Decision Making/Impact: May exercise authority within pre‐established limits and approval. Failure to achieve results can normally be overcome without serious effect on schedules and programs.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Engineering.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum 1 year of related experience.