Product Quality Assurance Engineer III

Work Schedule
Standard Office Hours (40/wk)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:
Join our innovative R&D team, where you'll contribute to developing next-generation electron microscopy and analytical instruments that enable groundbreaking scientific discoveries.

Product Quality & Reliability is a cross-site team that is responsible for the quality and reliability of new modules and systems. Our team is involved in multiple module and large-scale system programs in parallel. Besides quality and reliability for regular products we also work on Non-Standard Orders to deliver customer specific solutions.

POSITION:

As a Product Quality Assurance (PQA) Engineer you will be in the center of the project team to communicate with all team members. You have a strong focus on quality and define entry/handover criteria. Identify, analyze, and mitigate risk areas, propose necessary improvements in products and development processes. You will perform activities on system integration and module projects.

How will you make an impact?

- Key focus on driving quality in System Integration and Module projects.
- Responsible for Product Quality processes FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) and SRA (Safety Risk Assessment) on module and system level.
- Support the architect to define verifiable requirements and participate in the review process.
- Create test coverage on requirements, FMEA items, SRA items.
- Defining and maintaining test procedures and pass/fail criteria.
- Select and discuss test methods with project team members.
- Show test progress and mitigation if needed.
- Support design teams on system and modules, as well as on system integration level to implement Design for Reliability.
- Develop reliability (growth) models.
- Execute and support reliability analysis for new developments and predict warranty costs using field feedback and FMEA outcomes.
- Drive the development of test plans for reliability testing (test to fail) and reliability verification (test to pass).
- Support the reliability architect to define reliability requirements and budgets.
- Support the design teams with root-cause analyses with statistical engineering and PPI approaches.
- Support sourcing to direct outsourced developments with quality and reliability.
- Supply clear overview of status of PQA deliverables to project management and supply reasoned feedback to ensure project readiness.

REQUIREMENTS:
• Advanced Degree plus 3 years of experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 5 years of experience developing complex technical systems, preferably in electron microscopy or semiconductor equipment
• Preferred Fields of Study: Physics, Mechanical, Electrical, Systems Engineering or related technical field
• Additional specialized certifications in relevant areas (e.g., Six Sigma) beneficial

• Experience with developing and testing of low volume, complex high-tech systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with experience using statistical methods and DOE
• Strong documentation and technical writing skills
• Excellence in cross-functional collaboration and communication
• Ability to travel up to 10-20% as needed
• Proficient English language skills required
• Demonstrated innovation and problem solving ability
• Strong focus on product quality, reliability and customer needs