Quality Engineer

Job Description

The Quality Engineer supports all quality-related activities of the Quality Assurance department to ensure quality control and quality assurance of all manufactured and purchased products to achieve product excellence, continuous process improvement, and customer satisfaction. This position will lead the quality efforts and will support inspection, documentation control, and assist with validation of new products.

The Quality Engineer will also monitor and test the quality of incoming and outgoing products, establish and/or develop inspection standards and ensure that each is met. This position will also identify issues, recommend solutions and create quality documentation.

This position requires collaborative work with various departments including Product, Engineering, Production, and Sales.

The Quality Engineer supports all quality-related activities of the Quality Assurance department to ensure quality control and quality assurance of all manufactured and purchased products to achieve product excellence, continuous process improvement, and customer satisfaction.

This position will lead the quality efforts and will support inspection, documentation control, and assist with validation of new products.

This position will also monitor and test the quality of incoming and outgoing products, establish and/or develop inspection standards and ensure that each is met. This position will also identify issues, recommend solutions and create quality documentation.

This position requires collaborative work with various departments including Product, Engineering, Production, and Sales.

• Analyze new products prior to release and identify critical inspection areas as well as high risk reliability and safety issues
• Develop inspection testing plans, long term reliability testing plans, and accelerated lifetime testing plans
• Develop, establish, implement processes to enhance quality assurance to defined requirements
• Perform forensic inspections of failed field products
• Interact and collaborate well with members of other departments to improve quality methods and system processes which will result in a positive influence and impact on the overall quality of our products and services
• Assist Manufacturing Engineering team with work instruction development and check do check processes
• Develop and manage metrics gathering systems for vendor performance, internal manufacturing performance, and product field failures
• Validate QA inspection technician activities through periodic audits
• Initiate authority to stop a process, production for errors, safety and/or to ensure compliance with process
• Support training of fellow team members as needed
• Perform additional duties as assigned or requested

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering plus 5 years’ experience or 10 years of commensurate experience
• Quality Engineering experience relating to mechanical assemblies, electrical power supplies and wire harness
• Exceptional attention to detail, time-management, and problem-solving skills
• Experienced ability to safely use various metrology tools equipment including but not limited to, optical profilometer, handheld photometer, multimeter for purposes of evaluating product conformance
• Proven ability to strategize, plan, organize, prioritize, and execute a variety of multiple tasks in an effective and timely manner: organize own work, set priorities, and meet critical time deadlines
• Competent to work collaboratively and professionally with other departments and suppliers, facilitating the resolution of problems or conflicts
• Proven experience of Quality Control best practices that can be applied in the company’s environment
• Thorough understanding of principles and practices of continuous improvement
• ISO 9001 procedure writing and auditing, a plus
• Six Sigma, Lean Certification, a plus
• General knowledge of LED’s, LED drivers, controls, basic lighting terminology, photometry and applications, a plus
• Optical profilometer programming experience a plus
• Positions in this classification stand, sit, bend, stoop, kneel and reach to perform work for extended periods of time
• Employees must possess…