Sr. Advanced Quality Engineer

About This Role

Serve as a Quality & Reliability expert to business and project teams, working with domestic and potentially global teams to execute production support, new product development, product support, and value engineering projects. The role involves developing quality policies, analyzing product performance, and coordinating corrective actions.

Responsibilities

• Work with domestic and global teams to execute Production Support Quality Engineering Activities, NPD (New Product Development), Product Support, and Value Engineering projects
• Serve as the representative to the Accessories Quality & Reliability team on NPD teams alongside Marketing and Engineering counterparts
• Research, develop and revise Quality Policies, Procedures, System Instructions, Engineering Standards and Work Instructions
• Establish and maintain a framework and systems for collecting and analyzing product performance, statistical process control, and conducting gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies (GR&R)
• Formally lead and capture Supplier Development activities for all NPD projects
• Perform process analysis on machines, equipment, and systems to facilitate process improvement
• Provide guidance to manufacturing and suppliers in process improvement to reduce process variation
• Participate in reviewing designs of new products and engineering changes with respect to product quality control/assurance and gauge requirements
• Coordinate the corrective action system to ensure root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventive action
• Develop test plans and procedures to ensure products meet customer requirements
• Report and present product information utilizing statistical techniques such as Weibull analysis
• Review new product designs and engineering changes with respect to product reliability, end-user requirements and warranty information

Requirements

• 5+ years of related work experience
• Strong background in statistical analysis and methodologies
• Working knowledge of quality / reliability applications such as Minitab and ReliaSoft
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications including: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, or equivalent
• 5+ years of related work experience

Nice to Have

• Six Sigma
• Auditing
• Plant Quality experience
• Power BI
• Test Development

Skills

* Required skills