Engineer, Quality Assurance - Individual Contributor

Company: Apidel Technologies
Location: Flower Mound
Posted on: January 25, 2023

Job Description:

Develops and implements methods and procedures for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection to ensure that the products are free of flaws and function as designed.
Designs and installs sophisticated testing equipment and performs product testing and analysis to maintain quality levels and minimize defects and failure rates.
Analyzes reports and defective products to determine trends and recommend corrective actions. Collaborates with supplier representatives on quality problems, ensures that effective corrective actions are implemented and contributes to supplier quality improvement programs.
This is an individual contributor role that requires the use of judgement in applying professional expertise and is expected to work independently with minimal supervision. Roles typically require a university degree or an extensive amount of practical knowledge gained through experience. Job requires an understanding and application of procedures and concepts of own discipline. The job requires the ability to make judgements based on practice and previous experience.
This job typically requires a degree or equivalent and no experience.

Hours: 8:00am to 5:00pm

Additional Job Details:
Supports and executes design for manufacture and assembly through technical leadership in quality assurance, design control and preventative activities. Supports the development and introduction of new products, processes, and technologies, with focus on quality systems development, regulatory compliance, and process risk management including pFMEA.
Support the development and characterization of processes that are capable, scalable and produce high yield. Will support the design of robust inspection strategies including CQA's, CTQ's and MSA's to enable process risk identification, process characterization, capability and robust process control.
Provide quality engineering support for the execution of quality assurance activities during design transfer phases of new product development. Provide Quality engineering support for new product and process introductions, ensuring that all activities are completed and documented in accordance with the new product development procedures.
Will reside within the regional NPI QE team as part of GQO Quality Assurance organization and work collaboratively with Advanced Operations and Design Assurance, with responsibility for quality assurance activities, including, but not limited to the following: Proficient in risk management practices and tools, having high expertise in failure modes associated with production and production related processes, (PFMEA). Develop and implement lean inspection strategies and inspection plans through state-of-the-art inspection methods and technologies.
Ensure inspections are repeatable, efficient, and scalable. Support the development, execution, and approval of validation strategies, with the goal of highly capable processes, that result in high yield and enable scalability.
Approve protocols and reports, including data analysis. Support the supplier qualification strategy and approve the supplier validations and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP).
Ensure Supplier's Quality Systems can complete process characterization and develop highly capable processes that are scalable, and meet expectations.
Represent quality assurance during the DTAP (Design Transfer Agreement Plan) process, ensuring product launches meet or exceed established metric targets including Right First Time (RFT), manufacturing loss, inspection costs per unit and product escapes, in conjunction with other targets per the DTAP.

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