NPI Quality Assurance Engineer IV

Overview

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NPI Quality Assurance Engineer IV Make your mark at the world’s largest HVAC company. Daikin Applied is seeking an NPI Quality Assurance Engineer IV in this critical role to lead the establishment of a World-Class quality culture, transforming quality into a competitive advantage by reducing customer escapes, improving warranty costs, and delivering smooth and timely product launches. This will be accomplished by ensuring that products consistently meet quality and regulatory standards through planned and systematic activities as part of an improved Product Introduction Process (NPI).

This requires partnering with the product design team, supplier quality, and factory quality assurance throughout the entire product development lifecycle, from Ideation to Design & Development and Production Launch.

Location: In Office, Plymouth, MN

The NPI Quality Assurance Engineer is a critical role, ensuring that quality is integrated into the product lifecycle from concept to initial design through full-scale production launch of large, complex electro-mechanical assemblies. You will lead the product quality planning activities throughout assigned NPI projects, driving accountability for quality through the gate review process and ensuring seamless New Product Introduction (NPI) across manufacturing sites in the U.S. & Mexico.

• Execute, improve & track Critical-to-Quality NPI processes, ensuring Product Design & Quality Assurance Engineering expertise and methodologies are leveraged during New Product Introduction (NPI), namely Critical-to-Quality elements including:
• Historical Quality Reviews & Quality Design Targets
• Embedded participation in Product Design Team, supporting Preliminary Design Risk Assessments, Boundary Diagrams, DFMEA, Design Reviews (DFMA & DFQ), DVP & R and providing quality & risk knowledge transfer phase-to-phase throughout the NPI projects
• Product Design, Manufacturing & Quality Readiness Reviews
• Cross-functional collaboration with Supplier Quality & Manufacturing engineering to ensure robust NPI Project PPAP plan & Process Mapping and PFMEA
• Development of Control Plans for new product
• Provide hands-on product build support for all physical builds such as Prototype Builds (ECS), Manufacturing Check Samples (MCS), Closure of findings, and production release hand-shake with Manufacturing QC Team
• Drive continuous improvement of the NPI process
• Creates, executes and manages product quality assurance plans for NPI products, aligning with corporate policies, goals and strategic initiatives, meeting expectations for Quality functions at each manufacturing facility
• Analyzes, evaluates, and presents Quality Scorecards for NPI projects, assessing quality impact from factors (such as product design risk, manufacturing capabilities and concerns, supplier quality risks, and validation and verification of new products) to cross-functional management team
• Collaborates with engineering managers and lead engineers to ensure new products meet quality targets in accordance with the NPI and to identify and support design problem resolution for existing products
• Oversees the quality assurance engineering reviews of design documentation for compliance with stated requirements, including vendor and company quality records
• Supports the development and initiation of standards and methods for inspection, testing and evaluation
• Suggets and debates alternative methods and procedures in solving problems and meeting changing market conditions
• Keeps management team abreast of significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and corrective actions
• Prepares and presents technical and program information to the management team
• Establish basic quality disciplines (problem solving, data collection, prioritization and metrics). Develops initial and subsequent modifications to the quality improvement program to delineate areas of responsibility, personnel requirements, and operational procedures within program
• Reviews data obtained during all quality control and…