About the position
The Quality Engineer is responsible for supplier management and providing technical support to manufacturing, including leading or supporting quality investigations and continuous improvements projects. This position is located in Eden Prairie, MN, and reports to the Senior Manager of Quality. The role involves ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations, supporting quality audits, and leading continuous improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead or provide cross-functional team support on resolution of quality issues, including returns, complaints, and internal non-conformances.
- Guide cross-functional teams using quality tools and techniques to determine root cause and develop corrective actions.
- Strong technical writing skills to document investigation reports and support updates and/or creation of procedures.
- Lead training as needed to support quality objectives and culture.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvements to drive customer satisfaction and achieve business and plant objectives.
- Support quality audits, corrective actions, and facilitate supplier changes and qualifications.
- Lead incoming quality initiatives and support resolution of vendor quality problems.
- Assist with developing incoming inspection tools and testing (e.g. FAIR, PPAP).
- Ensure compliance within industry standards and regulations, including IEC, ISO9001, ISO13485, AS9100.
- Lead or support internal and supplier audits and facilitate corrective actions as needed.
- Support customer and third-party audits as needed.
- Assist with regulatory projects including UL certification and ISO accreditations.
- Assist with environmental and safety regulatory compliance to RoHS, REACH, Conflict Mineral, IEC, OHSA.
- Ability to lead Quality Plans or Continuous Improvements projects, meet deliverables, and demonstrate effective project management skills.
- Support focused quality activities including process control, root cause analysis, corrective actions, documentation and execution of systems, and inspection.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field with 3-5 years of experience in manufacturing.
- 2-3 years of experience working in electronics manufacturing environment or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
- SMT experience a must.
- Intermediate knowledge of quantitative methods and tools, including SPC, process capabilities, and design and analysis of experiments.
- Advanced expertise with problem-solving tools to investigate, document and resolve quality issues.
- MS Office experience required.
- Electrical, mechanical, and statistical aptitude required.
- Strong oral and written communications skills are required.
- Self-motivated with proven ability to apply innovative solutions to problems.
Nice-to-haves
- ASQ engineer certification desirable.
- Experience with advanced Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) change management, ERP, and metrics a plus.
Benefits
- Multiple options for medical and dental coverages
- Paid life insurance and disability coverage
- 401k with match
- 128 hours of time off per year to start
- Paid holidays
