Quality Engineer

Velo3DFremont, CaliforniaOn-siteFull-timeJunior, 1–2 yearsListed 3 days ago

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About this role

Job Responsibilities

- Operate in the inspect, diagnose, and repair mindset.

- Provide in-process inspection activities.

- Work closely with manufacturing, process, field service and quality teams to establish and maintain processes and procedures that will ensure consistently high quality.

- Drive CAPA activity using established processes to determine the root cause of problems and drive for implementation of corrective actions and countermeasures.

- Comprehend current production quality trends based on dashboards or from occurrences in the line.

- Rapidly communicate emerging and trending quality issues.

- Execute timely corrective action for quality mitigation and containment.

- Collaborate with engineering teams to support investigation, containment, and execution for strategic quality issues.

- Flexibility for dynamic changes in day-to-day work as it pertains to daily quality priorities.

- Maintain quality performance metrics and drive issues to root cause solutions.

- Audit manufacturing line against released manufacturing processes and procedures.

- Assist in the identification and resolution of manufacturing quality issues, contain parts or products as needed, sort parts for quality requirements.

- Participate in continuous improvement activities, with manufacturing and external suppliers.

- Take part in an ongoing optimization of the products with respect to both cost and production technology.

- Assist with external and internal audit activity.

- Support FMEA activities to ensure design and manufacturing issues are identified and risks mitigated.

- Analyze and disposition product nonconformances as a member of the Material Review Board.

- Analyze and interpret data independently.

- Anticipate potential problems and take preventative action.

- Help running supplier continuous improvement plans.

Qualifications

- Required: Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited university.

- Required: Minimum of 1 – 5 years of experience working with industry standards that include ISO 9001 and AS9100.

- Required: Experience processing CAPAs, NCRs and extensive problem-solving, root cause analysis.

- Required: Experience in reading and interpreting mechanical drawings.

- Required: Experience with Lean Manufacturing/Six Sigma practices, 5S, TPS, TQM, etc.

- High commitment to contribute to a positive, high paced, and results oriented work environment.

- Strong desire to work for a dynamic company working on disruptive technologies and make it a success, high level of tolerance to ambiguity.

- Creativity in problem solving; ability to quantify problems and develop analytical solution development, proficient in data-driven decision making.

- Demonstrated ability to be disciplined in approach and thought process.

- Team-oriented and self-directed.

- High level of accountability.

- Experience within quality systems in a medium/high volume manufacturing environment.

- Experience with ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO/TS 16949, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, DFMEA, PFMEA preferred.

- Strong aptitude for electronic test and measurements systems.

- Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, ability to lift and sort parts of up to 30 pounds as needed.

- Detail oriented with strong record-keeping and organizational skills.

- Ability to use technological tools and business system applications to manage, synthesize, and interpret data.

- Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) highly desired.

Work Environment:

Work is performed in an office setting as well as on the manufacturing floor. Work may be performed in emergency and stressful situations and may include handling of hazardous materials.