Quality Engineer (EEP24115)

Job # EEP24115

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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