Quality Engineer II

Plexus•Appleton, WI

39d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Engineer II leads the determination of non-conformance and customer complaints through containment, root cause, corrective action, and audits. They ensure product compliance to customer specifications and industry standards. This role supports operational teams in a manufacturing environment and involves designing and implementing quality systems, analyzing data, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality and compliance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree with 2 or more years of related experience is preferred. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience will be considered.
Ability to work well in fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Strong ability to identify and solve problems proactively using structured problem solving tools, including making timely and effective decisions.
Apply systemic data analysis and problem solving to address a full range of technical and organizational problems with creativity, imagination, confidence and responsibility.
Ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze, interpret, validate, and communicate data to key stakeholders.
Ability to seek out best practices and apply them within their assigned area.
Ability to design a system or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, efficiency, repeatability, environmental, health and safety. Includes documentation and controls to ensure long term sustainability.
Ability to become a Subject Matter Expert for an assigned system or process.
Ability to coach and mentor technicians and other support staff within assigned areas of expertise.
Ability to operate effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
Ability to effectively lead projects involving cross-functional team members.

Responsibilities

Lead development, deployment, and oversight of metrics for the Quality Management System (QMS) at the site to ensure appropriate monitoring of the health and compliance of the processes.
Ensure products comply with customer specifications, industry standards, regulatory requirements, and Plexus standards.
Ensure Assembly Build Instructions (ABIs) comply with specifications and standards.
Approve all changes and deviations from established guidance, including Engineering Change Orders (ECOs).
Lead creation and maintenance of the Master Validation Plans, when required, and ensure compliance.
Support creation and execution documents for validation.
Serve as the Plexus lead to support external customer audits and internal audit activities.
Support recertification and surveillance of Quality Management System (QMS) audits.
Lead product-related Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) discussion and closure.
Ensure continuous quality compliance during manufacturing operations.
Monitor on-going manufacturing operations to ensure quality issues are quickly addressed; provide quality alerts and lead containment and purges, when required.
Lead the development of the inspection strategy for receiving inspection, pre-ship inspection, and out-of-box-audits.
Ensure Certificates of Compliance are created and maintained, including documentation of deviations.
Ensure creation and maintenance of manufacturing quality history documentation, as required.
Build and embed Quality Awareness in Operations by ensuring effectiveness of training and inspections.
Educate operators and production associations on quality and compliance procedures.
Lead the determination of non-conformance and customer complaints through containment, root cause, corrective action, and audits.
Ensure product compliance to customer specifications and industry standards.