Design Assurance Engineer

Design Assurance Engineer

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Key Skills Required: Quality Assurance, Electrical, DFMEA, (5S or Kaizen) and Root Cause

• Lead cross-functional product quality and safety investigations. Hands-on contribute to analyses and investigation testing.

• Collaborate with PMO and Engineering team to ensure effective and efficient implementation of PDP (product development process).

• Work cross-functionally and build strong working relationships with employees at all levels and functions across the business including quality, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, customer service and product management.

• Ensure that product development teams are meeting quality and safety standards of product design.

• Lead DFMEA process and guide / coach engineering team to create FMEA for new design and updating existing designs.

• Lead engineering excellence initiatives to drive improvement and standardization of processes that help product development teams deliver robust products.

• Provide training and support development teams in applying Design Quality management using SPC standards, methods, tools, and concepts.

• Develop, implement, and improve Engineering metrics related to process certification and design robustness (including Engineering Effectiveness metrics and standard work).

• Participate in design reviews, change management process, and ensure design robustness before handing over design to production.

• Participate in the development, maintenance and interpretation of policies and standard work for engineering and coordinate their implementation.

• Support and contribute to product requirements development on projects.

• Support and contribute to defining design of experiments for new technology development.

• Collaborate with operations and production quality team and represent design engineering for product quality improvement initiatives.

• Proactively promote continuous improvement to improve product quality.

• Contribute to Carrier Quality and EH&S goals.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

5+ years of Product development or manufacturing experience preferably in industrial, automotive or fire equipment industries engineering. 3+ years of Root cause analysis experience