Job Description:

The Advanced Quality Engineer provides quality engineering services to cross-functional project teams which include New Product Development, Product Support, and Value Engineering. Project team members are led by a Project Leader and include Engineering, Marketing, Purchasing, Quality, and Manufacturing. Teams collaborate both locally and globally. Primary duties are to lead and direct the quality and reliability activities of project teams to successfully meet project objectives and goals including time-to-market, cost, and performance.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Serve as the project team lead for the Quality and Reliability function while supporting process improvement initiatives.

Reliability Functions:

• Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to translate customer needs into product requirements and specifications.

• Support the product design process including benchmarking and testing of concepts & prototypes.

• Develop and execute test procedures to validate product specifications and ensure Quality and Reliability readiness.

• Conduct reliability analyses using Weibull, Minitab, and other statistical methods to evaluate product performance and create reliability targets.

• Lead risk assessments (Design and Manufacturing) during the product development cycle.

• Lead root cause analyses (5-Whys, Fishbone, etc.) and drive effective corrective and preventive actions.

• Proactively seek out quality improvements for new and existing products.

Quality Functions:

• Work with the global quality teams to develop QC mitigation strategies for high risk specifications.

• Coordinate quality planning activities such as auditing, inspection, and control plans (incoming, in-process and outgoing) that drives user need CtQ requirements through product specifications and into manufacturing processes.

• Collaborate with US, European, and Asian based manufacturing and supplier representatives to ensure operational readiness of new product launches.

• Participate in the evaluation and selection of suppliers.

• Assess manufacturing and supplier process capability and measurement system stability through gauge studies and capability analyses (PpK, CpK).

• Able to call, lead and conduct global, cross functional team members with the following participants: New product development engineering, internal/external operations/suppliers, quality and supply chain.

• Provide technical guidance to the PRC supplier quality team.

• Organize and present key New Product Development project milestones to cross functional team members and leadership.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in metallurgical, manufacturing, industrial, mechanical engineering or equivalent.

• 2+ years of related work experience in Advanced Quality, Quality Engineering and/or Reliability Engineering preferred.

• Exceptional critical thinker, skilled at evaluating and anticipating risks early in product development and leading initiatives to mitigate them.

• Relevant experience with statistical tools such as Minitab and ReliaSoft.

• Strong communication and influencing skills across all organizational levels, with proficiency in delivering impactful presentations using PowerPoint.

• Ability to travel 20% (includes both domestic and international)