Quality Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

The Quality Engineer provides day-to-day quality engineering support for assigned manufacturing operations and product lines. This role is responsible for ensuring products and manufacturing processes meet approved specifications, internal quality requirements, and applicable regulatory standards. The Quality Engineer will lead and support cross-functional investigations, corrective actions, process improvements, risk-management activities, validation efforts, and statistical quality initiatives. The position works closely with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supplier Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Production, and Inspection personnel to identify and resolve quality issues, reduce process variation, and improve product performance throughout the product lifecycle. Additionally, the Quality Engineer will lead in the maintenance of and reporting on Quality System processes within Master Control, JDE Edwards (E-1), and custom, internal manufacturing software systems.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provide day-to-day quality engineering support for assigned manufacturing operations and product lines.
• Lead or participate in cross-functional product and process improvement teams.
• Lead root cause investigations, develop corrective actions, and drive continuous product improvements across the product lifecycle.
• Ensure internal adherence to established SOPs and document control practices.
• Identify, escalate and investigate product quality and compliance issues using a risk-based approach.
• Establish, maintain, and monitor manufacturing quality metrics for assigned product lines, including first-pass yield, defects, nonconformances, scrap, rework, warranty, RMA, and CAPA.
• Conduct, manage or participate in internal and external audits.
• Develop and maintain inspection plans, control plans, sampling plans, test methods, and acceptance criteria.
• Conduct or support measurement system analysis, including Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility studies.

• Support maintenance of product risk management files based on regulatory (e.g. ISO 14971, MDR, TPED, and PED, etc.) and post-market requirements.

• Support process validation, equipment qualification, revalidation, and manufacturing process changes.
• Review proposed product, process, equipment, material, supplier, and inspection-method changes for quality and validation impact.
• Support supplier quality activities when supplier performance affects manufacturing operations or finished product quality.
• Provide quality-related training and technical guidance to production employees, inspectors, technicians, and cross-functional team members.
• Other duties as assigned by manager

Supervisory Responsibility

This position currently has no direct supervisory responsibilities. The Operations Quality Engineer may provide technical direction, training, and leadership to employees and cross-functional team members.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment and manufacturing/distribution environment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. This is largely a physically active role. This would require the ability to lift, bend, or stand as necessary. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Travel

No routine travel is currently required. Occasional travel may be required to support supplier activities.

Required Education and Experience

• Master’s in Engineering (or other technical field); OR
• BS degree in Engineering (or other technical field) plus two years of experience in a regulated environment; OR
• 10+ years of relevant experience in an associated field.

• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, tolerances, work instructions, and inspection requirements.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)

Preferred Education and Experience

• Five or more years of experience in a regulated manufacturing environment, with at least three years in quality engineering, manufacturing quality, or a related quality function.
• Experience with ISO 13485, FDA Quality Management System requirements, and ISO 14971 risk-management principles.
• Familiarity managing and using quality tools such as sampling plans, CAPAs, control charts and root cause analysis methods.
• Experience with Plastic components and PCBA is a plus.
• Strong working knowledge of statistical analysis, six sigma techniques Green Belt or better a plus
• Previous experience with manufacturing or product quality related data analytics such as process capabilities, SPC, pareto, or other related data analysis methods and systems.
• Minitab and Tableau knowledge is a plus.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

None required for this position.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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