Associate Quality Engineer

Tcom, L.P. • Elizabeth City, NC

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About The Position

Plans and directs activities concerned with development, application, and maintenance of quality standards for industrial processes, materials, and products. Develops and initiates standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation, utilizing knowledge in industrial or manufacturing technology engineering fields. This role involves performing primary duties of a Quality Engineer, applying and analyzing testing and inspection procedures. Additionally, it includes duties of a Quality Auditor, judging the degree of adherence to criteria for chosen requirements, and a Quality Inspector, evaluating hardware and documentation, performing test procedures, inspecting products, measuring process performance, and recording data to prepare formal reports. The role also encompasses duties of a Quality Technician/Improvement Associate, preparing inspection plans and instructions, selecting sampling plan applications, analyzing and solving problems, preparing procedures, and training inspectors. Responsibilities include participating in design reviews, reviewing engineering drawings and specifications, assigning quality assurance codes and routings, evaluating supplier capability, specifying and managing inspection equipment, conducting quality planning, scheduling source inspections, training and supervising inspectors, dispositioning non-conformances, acting as quality for Material Review Board (MRB), managing product escapes, and performing quality functions with customers and regulatory bodies. The role also involves creating First Article Inspection templates, applying quality tools for process improvement, participating in cross-functional teams, determining root causes of quality problems, auditing quality systems, and developing environmental control methods.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field required
• One year experience in a manufacturing or technology job in a related industry, or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Apply and analyze testing and inspection procedures
• Judge the degree of adherence to the criteria for chosen requirements
• Evaluate hardware AND documentation
• Perform test procedures
• Inspect products
• Measure process performance
• Record data and prepare formal reports
• Prepare inspection plans and instructions
• Select sampling plan applications
• Analyze and solve problems
• Prepare procedures
• Train inspectors
• Perform surveillance
• Participate in design reviews of new and modified products and advise Engineering on quality assurance requirements
• Review new and revised engineering drawings and specifications and ensure inspect-ability and incorporation of quality requirements
• Assign quality assurance codes to parts for use on TCOM’s purchase order
• Assign quality assurance routings to parts for use on TCOM’s manufacturing order
• Read, understand and use existing or create, modify and establish new quality procedures and work instructions for inspection/test
• Evaluate capability/suitability and recommend approval of new TCOM suppliers
• Periodically review supplier performance and discipline/suspend/disapprove/reapprove suppliers
• Specify, select and employ suitable inspection, measuring and test equipment for use by quality assurance
• Manage calibration
• Conduct quality planning including creation of electronic and paper records necessary for quality assurance objective evidence
• Schedule, plan and conduct source inspections of incoming assemblies at supplier’s plants
• Interview, recommend selection and indoctrinate new TCOM inspectors
• Train, re-train, supervise and lead TCOM inspectors
• Supervise incoming, in-process and final inspections and tests conducted by TCOM inspectors and provide support
• Disposition non-conformances for quality assurance
• Act as quality for Material Review Board (MRB)
• Manage product escapes
• Control quality aspects of qualification, manufacturability, unit, factory acceptance, system acceptance and operational testing
• Liaison with, escort, support, negotiate with and perform necessary quality functions with customers and regulatory body members
• Create or supervise creation of First Article Inspection templates
• Approve or reject supplier First Article Inspections
• Apply quality tools and techniques to process improvement and quality improvement
• Be on or support cross-functional teams
• Use analysis techniques and psychological/human factors to determine Root Cause of quality problems and develop Corrective and Preventive Actions
• Audit quality systems (TCOM and supply chain) and related processes/procedures
• Prosecute corrective and preventive actions
• Develop environmental control methods and conduct surveillance to enforce adopted temperature/humidity/cleanliness standards, electrostatic discharge prevention, foreign object damage prevention, hazardous material control, safety and ITAR/IP protection
• Perform other job duties and responsibilities as assigned

Benefits

• health and disability insurance
• 401(k) match
• flexible spending accounts/HSAs
• EAP
• tuition reimbursement
• parental leave
• paid time off (PTO)
• company-paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level