Quality Assurance Engineer

Our client is a rapidly growing industrial automation company seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to be responsible for hardware and firmware design assurance validation activities for new product development and enhancement projects.

OVERVIEW

- Drive improvement and standardization of best practices in the organization to achieve best-in-class quality for new products, as part of a cross-functional team working with both external and internal customers.
- Support CPD-Common Product Development Process.
- Identify improvement opportunities.
- Relentlessly pursue Root Cause determination.
- Execution Management of Quality Deliverables for Projects.
- Apply Quality Functional Tools/Methods in the development of new product designs including, 8-D Methodology, 5-Why, Validation, MAAR, Pareto, Statistical Significance/Correlation, Design of Experiments, Critical to Quality characteristics, Design FMEA and Process FMEA.
- Participate with design engineering for Six Sigma process with new designs providing leadership in quality and reliability activities.
- Utilize statistical tools to evaluate current product quality performance and primary failure modes and determine physics of failure.
- Evaluate, from a quality and reliability standpoint, the materials, properties and techniques used in production.
- Work with design engineering to establish reliability models for key components, subassemblies and systems.
- Advise design engineering on selection, application and test of electronic components and systems.
- Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product quality and reliability.
- Develop accelerated reliability testing to validate the failure modes and use this testing to evaluate design changes, improvements and new designs.
- Use reliability models to work with Supplier Quality in evaluation of key components using critical parameters and accelerated testing in supplier evaluation and selection.
- Determine quality and reliability requirements of components, subassemblies and systems to achieve company, customer and any governmental agency reliability objectives.
- Develop new acceleration techniques and analytical tools to assure the early identification of potential problems with new products, packaging, processes, and product reliability.
- Ensure compliance with internal and external specifications and standards such as ISO regulations.

REQUIREMENTS

- B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum 2+ years of design assurance, product quality or engineering experience with an emphasis on improving quality within a high-tech product development organization
- Experience with manufacturing quality and design for manufacture
- Excellent communication, team building and interpersonal skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities or responsibilities

PREFERRED

- Demonstrated successful leadership experience on improving product quality
- Demonstrated ability to influence key stakeholders through a cross- functional team project
- Quality Engineering experience within an electronics environment
- Reliability Engineering experience within an electronics environment
- Experience with Industrial Automation applications and solutions
- ASQ certification desired - CQE, CRE