CT - 5135 Quality Engineer II - PCBA

Coghlin Companies Inc•Westborough, MA

17d•$85,000 - $110,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Columbia Tech is seeking a Quality Engineer II - PCBA to join their team. This role involves ensuring strict compliance adherence, training personnel on quality standards, and supporting various quality processes. The engineer will be responsible for developing quality plans, reviewing records, managing engineering changes, and driving continuous improvement through root cause analysis and corrective actions. Collaboration with internal teams and customers is key to resolving issues and improving product quality. The role also supports supplier quality, inspection processes, and regulatory audits.

Requirements

Positive attitude, self-motivator and tenacious follow up required.
Superior customer service attitude.
Excellent teamwork, communication, and interpersonal skills.
Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a science or engineering discipline. Significant and applicable professional experience may be considered in lieu of certain educational requirements.
Placement and inspection equipment knowledge, AOI, Mydata and Juki/Fuji preferred.
Minimum of 5 years professional experience in PCB quality manufacturing.
Proven problem solver.
Skills in MS Word and Excel such as keyboard short cuts, creating macros and forms, table techniques, working with images and text, pivot tables.
Skills in MS Visio such as creating Visio diagrams, creating custom styles and templates, cross functional flow charts, linking drawings to other MS applications, working with data, custom reports, and exporting is valuable.

Nice To Haves

Current or previous IPC-A-610 and/or J-STD-001 certification is preferred. Instructor level is beneficial.
Knowledge of IPC 620 standard beneficial.
Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead by example and promote the criticality of strict compliance adherence at Columbia Tech.
Lead in the training of personnel on workmanship (IPC-610) and quality standards.
Assure all outgoing products are manufactured in a compliant manner.
Support process qualification/validation and new product introduction processes.
Development and execution of Quality Plans for customer accounts.
Review device history records for quality approval.
Support and execute Redline and Engineering Change Notifications (ECN’s) processing.
Collaborate with Project Managers (PM’s) to analyze customer ECN’s and ensure effective implementation on the production floor through proper use of the Engineering Change Order (ECO) process, including reviewing and communicating impacts of any changes.
Suggest improvements to ECN/ECO process that lead to improved efficiency, accuracy, and quality.
Drive improvement of Columbia Tech Quality through analyzing non-conformances (NC’s) and performing root cause analysis of discrepancies.
Propose, review and implement approved corrective and preventive actions.
Collaborate with all internal groups and customers to help determine root cause of customer issues, Complaints, and CAPAs using various techniques.
Support Supplier Quality Engineering with non-conforming material issues resolution with suppliers.
Collaborate with cross-functional team to help determine root cause of customer issues.
Support the Quality Control inspection process.
Develop specific Quality Assurance Forms (QAF’s) or update Quality information within the Process Control System (i.e. Aegis), when required.
Provide Training, as needed.
Support the development of quality Receiving Incoming Inspection (RII) plans.
Development of quality and inspection plans.
Assist in regulatory audit for customer accounts.
Continually build strong rapport with customers through data collection, metrics generation and presentations.
Promptly respond to manufacturing floor quality issues, taking appropriate action within Columbia Tech’s Quality System.
Work with PCBA Manufacturing Engineers, assembly, production and test to identify trends and propose and implement corrective actions.
Collaborate with Engineering to develop optimal work order routings.
Collaborate with Supply Chain, PM’s and Operations on managing the Material Review Board (MRB) process.