Engineer- Quality III IND

First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset.

Basic Job Functions:

Responsible in ensuring the product assurance continuously meets or exceeds First Solar, customer, certification, and regulatory body expectations and ensure internal and external customer satisfaction via team collaboration with cross functional departments to achieve company goals and objectives.

Education/Experience:

Experience: 4 -7 years related working experience in a manufacturing environment

Education: Bachelor’s degree in any technical field from accredited program

Required Skills/Competencies:

Behavioral:

- Good oral and written communication skill
- Meticulous and attentive to details
- Good team orientation
- Possess a change of orientation and continuous learning attitude.
- Possess initiative and commitment to achieve.
- Proven problem-solving skills.
- Possess the ability to lead a team.
- Proven influential and decision-making skills.

Technical:

- Excellent computer knowledge skills
- Proven Knowledge of ISO standards, IEC Standard, VDE or UL requirements
- Knowledge of internal or external audits
- Proven knowledge in statistical application and data analysis skill
- Preferred Six Sigma knowledge with Green Belt certification.
- Six Sigma Black Belt certification added advantage.
- Basic knowledge in JMP and SQL is an added advantage.

Essential Responsibilities:

- Responsible for implementing and monitor product specifications in accordance with Company Policy and ISO standards.
- Define, implement, and monitor quality system including training, materials, and product specification according to company policy and ISO standards in driving continuous improvement and to ensure internal and external customer satisfaction.
- Interface with other departments and customers on quality issues and feedback for root cause and corrective action with structured problem-solving methodology.
- Participate in ISO internal and external audit as well as production readiness program.
- Assess risk evaluation and risk mitigation of quality issues and customer complaints.
- Train, plan, coordinate and supervise quality technician activity, and keep track of their performance and development when applicable.
- Provide guidance in development of test requirements analysis, test specification creation, defining and executing experiments, planning detailed tasks, specify output data formats and guidelines, establishing crucial dates and dependencies by identifying key elements and managing projects efficiently. Standardize statistical data analysis, summary reports and feedback procedures.
- Responsible for specifying and building advanced reliability capabilities (tests, procedures and infrastructure), training, knowledge sharing, establishing metrics best practices and across global organization.
- Provide technical resources for test plans to qualify new product and processes, evaluate failures and ensure consistent adherence to high quality standards by application of quality and reliability techniques. Conduct trend analysis of monitoring data.
- Responsible for PRM test and measurements in compliance to control plans and work instructions.
- Perform data analysis using JMP and SQL application and prepare investigation reports and quality or reliability test metrics.

Reporting Relationships:

- This position is reporting to Quality Manager
- This position has 11 direct reports.

Travel:

- Approximately 1~2 months of travel is required during a given year.

Physical Requirements:

Manufacturing & Maintenance Physical Requirements:

- Sit and stand periodically during the day.
- Will lift up to 58 pounds on an occasional basis.
- Will push or pull up to 27 pounds of force on an occasional basis.
- Required to use hands to grasp, lift, handle, carry or feel objects repetitively on a frequent basis.
- Able to distinguish between red, yellow, and green is required.
- May stoop, kneel, or bend, on an occasional basis.
- Must be able to comply with all safety standards and procedures.
- Ability to wear personal protective equipment is required (including, but not limited to; steel toed shoes, cut resistant gloves, jackets, aprons &/or arm guards, safety glasses, hearing protection).
- All associates working on the production floor may be required to wear a respirator at any given time and thus, the ability to wear a respirator is a condition of employment and continued employment (requires little or no facial hair).

Office Physical Requirements:

All positions in our office require interaction with people and technology while either standing or sitting. To best service our customers, internal and external, all associates must be able to communicate face-to-face and on the phone with or without reasonable accommodation. First Solar is committed to compliance with its obligations under all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. In keeping with this commitment, it attempts to reasonably accommodate applicants and employees in accordance with the requirements of the disability discrimination laws. It also invites individuals with disabilities to participate in a good faith, interactive process to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made without imposing an undue hardship.

Potential candidates will meet the education and experience requirements provided on the above job description and excel in completing the listed responsibilities for this role. All candidates receiving an offer of employment must successfully complete a background check and any other tests that may be required.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement: First Solar is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.