Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Apple

About The Position

In this highly visible and highly hands-on role, you will have the chance to create a significant impact on Apple Products and leave a footprint for years to come. We have an opportunity for an accomplished quality engineer to lead development, and ramp for cutting edge product designs! Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Apple is a drug-free workplace. In this highly visible role, you will manage selection, implementation & optimization of quality processes for consumer packaging parts and assemblies for our legendary highly cosmetic consumer products. Responsibilities include developing new quality control regimes to enable current and future product designs, conducting DOEs to validate quality systems, and qualifying these regimes for mass production. Full ownership providing end to end solutions including all aspects of equipment selection, setup, process definition, qualification, and mode of operation to ensure a robust quality system. Lead production line qualification prior to mass production. The qualification processes required includes cosmetic yield study, approval on product quality, review of product quality consistency, standard inspection process and its implementation, reliability testing results, and dimensional inspection reports. A heavy emphasis will be on working with suppliers to triage and mitigate quality issues during ramp up and mass production through lightning fast reactions to quality excursions, deep diving on failure analysis and creating robust corrective actions to prevent customer exposure while enabling continued mass production. Set up standardized quality control process across all vendors to ensure measurement correlation, and as a result, product quality consistency. Regularly visits vendors factory sites during mass production to review product quality, inspection process, and audit vendor’s quality system and manufacturing process control. Interact with Industrial Design, Marcom, Product Design to enable the most beautiful packaging designs, vivid prints, and uniformly coloured parts on the market. Coordination of activities between the Asia and US-based teams, and vendors is a necessity.

Requirements

University degree in Print / Chemical / Mechanical / Packaging Engineering or equivalent quality work experience.
3+ years work experience in a quality, print, or colour management role in the Asia-Pacific region.
Ability to use and implement statistical process control and quality control tools to make data driven decisions.
Ability to understand GD&T, drawing specifications, and their applications to quality process.
Ability and willingness to work independently and travel frequently upon request.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, fluent in English.
A team player who is self-motivated, defining and closing all engineering tasks to meet project objectives, detailed oriented to cut to the root of problems, and ability to learn quickly with little information or support.

Nice To Haves

Expertise in quality control or processing of highly cosmetic print process (flexo, gravure, offset, digital, etc), decoration (foiling, emboss/deboss, lamination, etc), specialized print raw materials, or related processes is an asset.

Responsibilities

Manage selection, implementation & optimization of quality processes for consumer packaging parts and assemblies for highly cosmetic consumer products.
Develop new quality control regimes to enable current and future product designs.
Conduct DOEs to validate quality systems.
Qualify these regimes for mass production.
Provide end to end solutions including equipment selection, setup, process definition, qualification, and mode of operation to ensure a robust quality system.
Lead production line qualification prior to mass production, including cosmetic yield study, product quality approval, review of product quality consistency, standard inspection process and its implementation, reliability testing results, and dimensional inspection reports.
Work with suppliers to triage and mitigate quality issues during ramp up and mass production through fast reactions to quality excursions, deep diving on failure analysis, and creating robust corrective actions.
Set up standardized quality control process across all vendors to ensure measurement correlation and product quality consistency.
Regularly visit vendor factory sites during mass production to review product quality, inspection process, and audit vendor’s quality system and manufacturing process control.
Interact with Industrial Design, Marcom, Product Design to enable beautiful packaging designs, vivid prints, and uniformly coloured parts.
Coordinate activities between Asia and US-based teams, and vendors.