QA Engineer

Sanmina

• $80K — $90K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field
  • 2 years experience as a Quality Engineer
  • Familiar with Surface Mount Technology (SMT)
  • Experience with quality control procedures and tools like FMEA and DOE
  • PCB and Contract Manufacturing experience required
  • Lean-Kaizen certification is a plus
  • Strong computer skills and interpersonal abilities

Responsibilities

  • Develop and apply quality assurance protocols for inspection and testing
  • Ensure compliance with quality standards and regulations
  • Analyze inspection data and identify trends for corrective action
  • Follow and enforce manufacturing inspection and control procedures
  • Verify adherence to specifications like GMPs, ISO, and AS9100

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Savings plan
  • Company paid holidays
  • Paid time off (PTO)
  • Potential eligibility for restricted stock units
  • Participation in discretionary bonus program
Full Job Description
Job Purpose:
Responsible for manufacturing processes compliant with quality standards. Support customers in failure analysis, root cause analysis, corrective/containment/preventive actions. Assist customer focus team in resolving quality issues following quality standard practices. Develops and implements plan for lean/6 Sigma deployment within the plant. Provides progress reports and action plans for lean/6 Sigma implementation. Perform other quality related activities as needed.

Nature of Duties/Responsibilities:
• Develops, evaluates, revises, and applies technical quality assurance protocols/methods to inspect and test in-process raw materials, production equipment, and finished products.
• Ensures activities and items are in compliance with both company quality assurance standards and applicable government regulations.
• Performs analysis and identifies trends in the inspection of finished products, in-process materials and bulk raw materials, and recommends corrective actions when necessary.
• Ensures that established manufacturing inspection, sampling and statistical process control
procedures are followed.
• Assure compliance to in-house and/or external specifications and standards, such as GMPs, ISO and AS9100 regulations. Evaluates and analyzes the efforts in organizing, documenting, and interpreting inspection support documents and records.

Education and Experience:
• Bachelors of Science, Coursework or project background with Surface Mount Technology (SMT), Quality Control (QC) procedures and quality tools such as Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Design of Experiments (DOE).
• Minimum 2 years of experience as a Quality Engineer
• Six Sigma and/or Lean-Kaizen experience is a plus.
• Proficiency in computer skills.
• Personable, must interface well with customers.
• PCB and Contract Manufacturing Experience required

Salary Range(annual): $80,000 - $90,000

Actual base pay within this range (determined at the offer stage) will be based on a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, and skills, and is just one element of our total rewards package. The total rewards package also includes a variety of benefits, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business and, depending on the role, may include eligibility for restricted stock unit awards and participation in a discretionary bonus program.

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