Quality Engineer

Flex•Milpitas, CA

16d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Engineer will be based in Milpitas, California and report to Jorge Jorge Cisneros. This role maintains quality engineering programs, standards, and improvements within the organization. The engineer develops and maintains quality standards and methods for inspecting, testing, and evaluating materials, products, production equipment, and processes; ensures the availability and integrity of quality data; consolidates and reports quality results; and drives corrective actions through completion. The position also supports quality-related customer interfaces, training, audits, product and process qualifications, and liaison with regulatory bodies. The role requires a bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience and typically six years of engineering experience in the high-technology electronics industry or a related field. It calls for advanced mathematical and analytical capabilities, the ability to interpret technical instructions, and knowledge of electronic test equipment and programming. The engineer is expected to demonstrate advanced technical, operational, troubleshooting, diagnostic, customer relationship, and process skills, along with a thorough understanding of Flex and its business.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Typically six years of engineering experience in the high-technology electronics industry or a related field.
Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts, including exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
Ability to apply mathematical operations to frequency distributions, test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
Ability to interpret a wide variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and work with abstract and concrete variables.
Knowledge of electronic assembly, including color codes, components, and schematics; various PCB operations may be required.
Knowledge of testing tools and activities, including oscilloscopes, cable and harness testing, troubleshooting, component testing, and logic analyzers.
Knowledge of inspection activities and tools, including bare-board, systems, components, cable and harness inspection, microscopes, and measuring tools.
Knowledge of mechanical and electrical tools, including taps and dies, alignment tools, and measuring tools.
Office skills, including telephone use, data entry, and word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software.
Working knowledge of computerized electronic test equipment and programming is typically required.
Advanced functional and technical skills, basic process skills, troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, an overview of the test process, and the ability to train others.
Advanced operations, technical, people and/or process, and internal and external customer relationship skills.
Expert knowledge of the function and thorough understanding of Flex and related business; knowledge of multiple functional technologies, processes, industries, or functions and their interdependencies at the site.

Responsibilities

Develop and initiate standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation.
Devise sampling procedures and design forms and instructions for recording, evaluating, and reporting quality and reliability data.
Develop and implement methods and procedures for disposition of discrepant material, including methods to assess cost.
Direct workers measuring and testing products and tabulating data concerning material, product, or process quality and reliability.
Compile training materials and conduct training sessions on quality control activities.
Support Product Engineers and Quality Program Managers with customer interfaces on quality-related issues as necessary.
Ensure availability and integrity of quality-related data; consolidate and report quality results.
Initiate corrective action requests as needed and track them to satisfactory completion.
Assist with development and implementation of quality audits.
Develop, apply, revise, and maintain quality standards for processing materials into partially finished or finished products.
Design and implement methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating product and production-equipment precision and accuracy.
Explore reports and returned products and recommend corrective action.
Establish programs to evaluate the precision and accuracy of production equipment and testing, measurement, and research equipment and facilities.
Approve product, process, and equipment qualifications.
Provide liaison to regulatory bodies.