Quality Engineer

Plexus • Appleton, WI

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About The Position

The Quality Engineer ensures continuous quality compliance during manufacturing operations. They monitor ongoing 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.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor's degree.
• Typically requires 0-2 years of related experience.
• A combination of education, experience, and time in field will be taken into consideration, and internal candidates may have distinct requirements tailored to their demonstrated skills and contributions within the organization.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Build and embed Quality Awareness in Operations by ensuring effectiveness of training and inspections.
• Educate operators and production associations on quality and compliance procedures.
• Ensures compliance of customer requirements, industry standards, and safety in the workplace.
• Primary interface with customers on quality related matters as well as lead to improve incoming customer inquires to reduce Return Material Authorizations (RMAs).
• Participate and support regulatory and customer audits at site.
• Understands and follows Plexus quality policy guidelines, customer specifications and adheres to regulatory compliance.
• Monitors own work to ensure quality standard is met as well as look for opportunities to improve quality and eliminate waste at work.
• Delivers work in way a that eliminates scrap or rework.
• Keeps supervisors informed and escalates issues when needed.
• Drive Proactive Continuous Improvement on Yield & Quality Metrics by designing templates for documents, file types, and document databases.
• Drive cross-functional teams to deliver continual improvement activities for internal processes deliverables.
• Provide Supervision to Quality Assurance Inspectors and Technicians.
• Guide Quality Assurance operators, group leaders, and technicians in ongoing quality improvement activities

Benefits

• Plexus offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support team members' wellbeing, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, retirement savings, and opportunities for professional development.
• We also prioritize work-life balance and offer a variety of perks to enhance the team member experience.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level