Quality Engineer (EEP24084)

Job # EEP24084

Job Title Quality Engineer

Office Location Katy, TX

Business Function/Department Power Electronics Systems/Quality

Sales Territory, if applicable

General Role Description

Monitor and assess the business unit’s (BU) quality assurance program, ensuring manufacturing and supplier compliance with system design and standards

Role Accountabilities

-   Recommend quality metrics to drive supplier improvements, preventive actions, and business results, and implement as approved

-   Direct and coordinate the overall quality specifications and standards for materials and finished products to meet client purchase order requirements

-   Analyze needs and develop criteria for selecting suppliers who consistently provide high-quality products and systems for integration into the Company's solutions

-   Monitor and analyze non-conformance data; recommend, develop, and implement appropriate responses in collaboration with procurement management

-   Monitor supplier RCA's and CAR's for timely and thorough generation and distribution, escalating as necessary

-   Evaluate new suppliers' manufacturing and quality processes, utilizing the Company’s supplier qualification system

-   Ensure quality assurance assessments at established supplier and client sites are performed in compliance with Company requirements

-   Provide management with timely updates on vendor compliance status, trends, process improvements, and similar measures

-   Ensure all warranty claims and failures in the field are investigated and root cause analysis is performed

-   Perform internal and external audits and facilitate action plans for non-conformers

-   Train employees on ISO-9001, statistical techniques, problem solving and quality awareness

-   Create and update policies, procedures, standards, and work instructions to promote continuous improvement across production and business operations

-   Develop processes that effectively reduce shop floor deviation and waste

-   Develop the path to achieve integrated business management in accordance with ISO standards

-   Manage and lead internal and external audit program, ensuring that all processes meet established standards

-   Perform vendor audits, recording and monitoring vendor quality and recommend improvements based on analysis

-   Run monthly report of nonconforming items and scrap for management

-   Develop standardized work processes and process improvements as requested by management

-   Resolve problems ensuring quality needs are being met and manufacturing criteria are adhered to, escalating as necessary

General Employee Accountabilities

-    Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

-    Give manager best advice

-    Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

-    Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

-    Exemplify Company Core Values:  Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

-    Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

-    Recommend viable improvements proactively

-    Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

-   BS degree in electrical, mechanical, or industrial engineering; or related physical or applied science; or equivalent via education and/or work experience

-   3 years’ related work in manufacturing, quality control, or design engineering with accountability for supplier quality assurance and selection

-   3 years’ experience working in an ISO-9001, 2015 environment

-   3 years of experience with internal/external auditing, related to ISO 9001, 2015

-   Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

-   Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

-   Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts

-   Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills

-   Proficiency in MS Office

-   Ability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 20%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

-   QT-9 Management System Experience

-   Demonstrated experience in utility scale PV inverter manufacturing

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website:  https://www.tmeic.com/.  To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting.  A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application.  Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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