Intern - Quality

Plexus; Región Centro; On-site; MXN 134,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Plexus Corp. in Mexico is seeking a Quality Intern to support and learn essential quality processes in an electro-mechanical manufacturing setting. You will assist in testing, data analysis, defect identification, and teamwork to elevate product quality and compliance.

The role emphasizes learning, following Plexus quality policies, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives while gaining hands-on experience in quality documentation and audits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering is preferred.
• No related experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Support quality assurance during manufacturing operations.
• Analyze data to identify defects and trends.
• Collaborate with team to improve product quality and reduce waste.
• Monitor quality compliance and escalate issues as needed.
• Lead containment and purge activities when required.
• Assist in developing inspection strategies for receiving, pre-ship, and OOT audits.
• Create and maintain Certificates of Compliance and quality history documentation.
• Drive continuous improvement in yield and quality metrics.
• Provide supervision to QA inspectors/technicians during improvement activities.

Skills

Quality assurance

Data analysis

Documentation

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Purpose Statement: The Quality Intern is responsible to support and learn about the processes involved in ensuring product quality. This may include tasks such as testing, analyzing data, identifying defects, and collaborating with the team to enhance product quality.Key Job Accountabilities:Quality Assurance: Ensure continuous quality compliance during manufacturing operations. Monitor on-going manufacturing operations to ensure quality issues are quickly addressed; provide quality alerts and lead containment and purges, when required. Lead the development of the inspection strategy for receiving inspection, pre-ship inspection, and out-of-box-audits. Ensure Certificates of Compliance are created and maintained, including documentation of deviations. Ensure creation and maintenance of manufacturing quality history documentation, as required.Support Quality Engineering initiatives.Development of Quality initiatives.Quality; Understands and follows Plexus quality policy guidelines, customer specifications and adheres to regulatory compliance, Monitors own work to ensure quality standard is met, Looks for opportunities to improve quality and eliminate waste at work, Delivers work in way a that eliminates scrap or rework, Keeps supervisors informed and escalates issues when neededDrive Proactive Continuous Improvement on Yield & Quality Metrics; Designing templates for documents, file types, and document databases, Driving the cross-functional team to deliver continual improvement activities for internal processes deliverablesProvide Supervision to QA Inspectors/Technicians; Guide QA operators/group leaders/technicians in ongoing quality improvement activitiesEducation/Experience Qualifications:A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required; a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is preferredno related experience is requiredAn equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the key job accountabilities may be considered.Other Qualifications:Role will work in an electro-mechanical manufacturing environment with required personal protective equipment.Facilities include comfortable temperatures, repetitive low noise level and suitable lighting for required tasks.May require physical stamina with strong manual dexterity and fine motor control with precise measurement equipment or delicate tools and components requiring a steady touch.Visual inspection may require acute near vision and the ability to work continually using magnifiers, cameras and other vision systems.Role will spend a majority of the time standing and sitting with limited activities including lifting packages, moving material and working around lifting and material movement equipment as needed.Role may include repetitive computer tasks in different types of software creating, editing and saving quality records.Physical Requirements:N/ATravel Requirements:Less than 40%This document does not represent a contract of employment and is not intended to capture every possible assignment the incumbent could be asked to perform.