Overview

As a Quality Engineer at Bruker AFM, you'll play a pivotal role in quality engineering, improving processes and being a key part of the manufacturing engineering team. If you're ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply and become part of our innovative family.

Responsibilities

General:
• Following company policies and processes
• Initiating and supporting continuous improvement activities
• Creating metrics and reports as required
• Documenting and improving Quality Processes
• Training new employees in Quality Processes
• Guiding process users and answering questions
• Ensuring compliance with internal and external standards where applicable
• Approving Engineering Change Orders for Quality Engineering
• Participating in NPI projects as a core team member
• Supporting Manufacturing Engineering projects as needed
• Performing other functional duties as assigned by the supervisor
• Supporting Global Supply-chain Management (GSM) department on vendor selection and performance activities
• Supporting Receiving Inspection activities, answering their questions regarding processes, parts, design intents, drawings, inspection techniques, sampling plans and SAP QM transactions

Non-Conforming Material (NCM) and Material Review Board (MRB):
• Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool
• Processing NCM data into databases (SAP)
• Managing Material Review Board (MRB) activities
• Managing MRB room inventory
• Managing MRB metrics and reports
• Ensuring on-time disposition of NCM records and NCM material
• Ensuring NCM data integrity and compliance with internal and external standards, policies and procedures

Supplier Deviation Request (SDR):
• Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool
• Approving SDRs
• Monitoring and maintaining SDR process, work instructions, and PLM database
• Managing SDR metrics and reports
• Ensuring on-time disposition of SDRs
• Ensuring SDR data integrity and compliance with internal and external standards, policies and procedures

Quality Information Records (QIR)
• Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool
• Creating and maintaining Quality Inspection Plans in SAP
• Creating and updating QIR in SAP
• Ensuring SAP quality plans' functionality and accuracy
• Preventing QIR and Quality Lot errors in SAP
• Working with manufacturing engineers and receiving inspectors to maintain quality plans and QIRs

First Article Inspection (FAI):
• Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool
• Creating FAI requirements on FAI forms
• Supporting Manufacturing Engineers' approval of FAI results
• Generating FAI metrics and reports
• Ensuring on-time disposition of FAI results

Out of Box Quality (OBQ):
• Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool
• Chairing the OBQ board meetings
• Managing the OBQ action items
• Generating OBQ Metrics

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
• Fluent in Microsoft Office Tools
• Advanced skills in MS Excel (data mining, macros, charts, tables, pivot tables etc.)
• Experience in leading and contributing dFMEA, pFMEA, DFx tools and processes
• Experience in, NPI process
• Experience in leading and contributing cross-functional international teams
• Experience with chairing Material Review Board (MRB) and NCM activities
• Excellent people skills and team player
• Experience with SAP material master and quality modules and transactions
• 3D CAD experience with ability to read fabrication drawings and make changes
• Knowledge of common inspection tools and how to use them
• Excellent understanding of fundamentals of quality assurance and QMS
• Experience in using conventional inspection equipment and CMM (or similarly advanced tools)
• Experience in process capacity analysis
• Excellent verbal / written communication, and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications:
• ISO9001 or equivalent
• Lean Six Sigma
• Experience with process improvements
• Experience with writing Engineering Changes

PHYSICAL/ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS:

Ø Strong typing skills

Ø Ability to lift 25lbs

EDUCATIONAL/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

BS in Engineering

Minimum of 3 years' Quality Engineering experience

At Bruker, base salary is part of our total compensation. The estimated base salary range for this full-time position is between $97,000 and $173,000. You will have the ability to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base salary for the role will depend on several job-related factors, including, but not limited to education, training, experience, the geographic location of the successful candidate, skills, competencies, job-related knowledge and travel requirements for this position. Full-time employees may also be eligible for a performance-related incentive in addition to a full range of benefits including 401(k) with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, medical and dental plans, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, employee assistance program and paid time off including vacation, sick time and holidays, and more.

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