QA Engineer - Supplier Quality

Varex Imaging Corporation•Salt Lake City, UT

About The Position

Varex Imaging is looking for a motivated, proactive engineer to help support existing products in the Supplier Quality Engineering group. Our group helps reduce scrap and increase product quality on a variety of products ranging from Mammography to CT applications. There are always interesting and challenging opportunities in production that require us to work together as a team and leverage each other’s experience. We are a tight knit group that like to work hard and have fun as we help make our products better. We are looking for a Suppler Quality Engineer that: · Ensures that suppliers deliver quality parts, materials, and services · Qualify suppliers according to company standards and may administer a Certified Supplier Program in receiving inspection to ensure cost effectiveness, including auditing to ISO 9001 or better · Monitors parts from acquisition through the manufacturing cycle and communicates and resolves supplier-related problems as they occur · Develops and prioritizes an auditing schedule to ensure that designated suppliers are audited on a regular basis to ensure good manufacturing practices (GMP) and quality standards are met · Evaluates suppliers’ internal functions to assess their overall performance and provides feedback in assessment of their operation · Supports existing product lines and disposition daily scrap and rework · Implement design and process improvements to existing product lines to help improve product quality, performance, and customer satisfaction · Interfaces effectively with Production, Quality, Design Engineering, and Supply Chain Management to manage complex problems across several different departments · Generates requirements, specifications, defining test methods/criteria/protocols and validation · Travel 10% to complete supplier audits · B.S. degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing, or Applied physics · 2+ years of experience designing new products and demonstrated success in driving products to market · 2+ years of experience developing new manufacturing processes, streamlining and optimizing existing processes, transitioning R&D products into a production environment, or in a manufacturing support role. · Familiarity with various manufacturing processes such as machining, brazing/welding, mechanical assembly, vacuum technology, and high voltage equipment. · Six Sigma Green or Black Belt preferred

Requirements

B.S. degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing, or Applied physics
2+ years of experience designing new products and demonstrated success in driving products to market
2+ years of experience developing new manufacturing processes, streamlining and optimizing existing processes, transitioning R&D products into a production environment, or in a manufacturing support role.
Familiarity with various manufacturing processes such as machining, brazing/welding, mechanical assembly, vacuum technology, and high voltage equipment.

Nice To Haves

Six Sigma Green or Black Belt preferred

Responsibilities

Ensures that suppliers deliver quality parts, materials, and services
Qualify suppliers according to company standards and may administer a Certified Supplier Program in receiving inspection to ensure cost effectiveness, including auditing to ISO 9001 or better
Monitors parts from acquisition through the manufacturing cycle and communicates and resolves supplier-related problems as they occur
Develops and prioritizes an auditing schedule to ensure that designated suppliers are audited on a regular basis to ensure good manufacturing practices (GMP) and quality standards are met
Evaluates suppliers’ internal functions to assess their overall performance and provides feedback in assessment of their operation
Supports existing product lines and disposition daily scrap and rework
Implement design and process improvements to existing product lines to help improve product quality, performance, and customer satisfaction
Interfaces effectively with Production, Quality, Design Engineering, and Supply Chain Management to manage complex problems across several different departments
Generates requirements, specifications, defining test methods/criteria/protocols and validation
Travel 10% to complete supplier audits