Quality Engineer

Job #: EE26037 Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer Office Location: Houston, TX Preferred Business Function / Department: Energy and Infrastructure Solutions / Technical Services Sales Territory: N/A General Role Description: Monitor and assess the Company's quality assurance program, ensuring supplier compliance with the system design and standards. Role Accountabilities Advise on product quality initiatives related to field failures. Produce root cause analysis (RCA) for field failure events as required, including site investigation. Distinguish between design issues, manufacturing defects, commissioning errors, and field/environmental conditions. Maintain failure in time (FIT) reporting on company products. Maintain and analyze field failure data, and report on trends in field failures in commissioning and production. Recommend quality metrics to drive company products and supplier equipment improvements, preventive actions, and business results, and implement as approved. Direct and coordinate the overall quality specifications and standards for materials and finished products to meet client purchase order requirements. Monitor and analyze non-conformance data; recommend, develop, and implement appropriate responses in collaboration with procurement management. Monitor supplier RCAs and corrective action requests (CAR), critically evaluate RCA quality, and elevate when evidence or corrective actions are insufficient. Evaluate new equipment suppliers' manufacturing and quality processes, utilizing the Company's supplier qualification in collaboration with procurement. Evaluate repair and remediation activities and failures to improve quality and RCA production. General Employee Accountabilities Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager. Give manager best advice. Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified. Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager. Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment. Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws. Recommend viable improvements proactively. Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes. Minimum Qualifications BS degree in electrical, mechanical, or industrial engineering; or related physical or applied science; or equivalent via education and/or work experience. 4 years related work experience in manufacturing, quality control, quality assurance or design engineering with direct responsibility for field failure analysis, supplier quality, and technical root cause analysis (RCA). Demonstrated ability to produce technically defensible RCAs based on evidence and system-level analysis. Demonstrated experience with data analytics tools (Excel, Power BI) and FIT / MTBF reporting. Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts. Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills. Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility. Possession of a recognized quality certification such as CQE, ASQ, or Six Sigma Yellow Belt. Proficiency in MS Office programs. Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 50%, sometimes with limited notice. Preferred Qualifications Successful development of a manufacturing quality process or supply chain quality assurance process. Power electronics experience: PV Inverter experience and MV Drives in engineering, manufacturing, field repair or quality. MV Drive experience in engineering, manufacturing, field repair, or quality. Electrical failure mode analysis (IGBTs, PCBs, capacitors, cooling systems). Systems-integration experience involving transformers, switchgear, protection relays, and SCADA. EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability Employer #J-18808-Ljbffr