Quality Engineer

Boyd Thermal Solutions Inc.; Billerica (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Boyd Thermal by Eaton seeks a Quality Engineer for our Billerica, MA facility. The role ensures products meet customer requirements, leads quality initiatives, and serves as the representative for customer issues related to product quality.

Responsibilities include driving CAPA, leading audits, defining shop-floor quality requirements, and collaborating with service to analyze failures. Travel up to 10% may be required.

Qualifications

• This position requires a bachelor’s degree in the appropriate discipline and 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience operating in ISO9001 quality environments; AS9100 is a plus.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to manage both suppliers and internal customers.
• Proven track record of leading multiple projects with stakeholders across functions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Boyd lead for product quality and reliability issues for Boyd’s line of System Cooling Products.
• Establish and implement processes for addressing and resolving customer product quality issues in a timely manner.
• Define quality requirements at the shop floor level.
• Work with shop floor management to identify failure modes and drive improvement.
• Ensure timely processing of any product non-conformances found at incoming or in process inspection.
• Identify and eliminate cost of quality drivers including scrap and rework within manufacturing.
• Communicate directly with shop floor work cells to improve product quality.
• Partner with service team to participate in failure analysis activities, compile data and reduce product failure modes.
• Drive CAPA associated with product quality through the organization to ensure that any findings or non-conformances are addressed quickly.
• Leads audits of processes and quality systems.
• Summarize and present product quality data to Quality Manager monthly.
• Participate in the development of customer prototypes to ensure customer quality requirements are met.
• Serve as a mentor to the organization for advanced problem-solving techniques (8d, 5why, DMAIC).
• Define inspection processes, requirements, frequency, and sampling internally and through sub tier Drive improvements at key and critical suppliers to ensure high quality incoming materials Ready to support customers in different time zones.
• Willing to travel up to 10% domestic and international when required.
• Advocate for lean, 6S.
• As a member of the Boyd team, perform additional duties as required.

Skills

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Root cause analysis

DMAIC

8D

Statistical tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Office

Minitab

FMEA

SPC

GD&T

Job description

Job Description Boyd Thermal by Eaton is currently seeking a Quality Engineer for our Billerica, MA facility. The Boyd Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring that Boyd products exceed the requirements and expectations of our customers. This individual will assume full responsibility for all aspects of product quality and serve as Boyd’s representative for all customer issues related to the product. The Quality Engineer will take the actions necessary to improve product quality by identifying and addressing product non conformances. Emphasis is on proactively managing customer satisfaction by delivery the highest quality thermal products in the industry.

Key Duties

• Serve as the Boyd lead for product quality and reliability issues for Boyd’s line of System Cooling Products.
• Establish and implement processes for addressing and resolving customer product quality issues in a timely manner.
• Define quality requirements at the shop floor level.
• Work with shop floor management to identify failure modes and drive improvement.
• Ensure timely processing of any product non-conformances found at incoming or in process inspection.
• Identify and eliminate cost of quality drivers including scrap and rework within manufacturing.
• Communicate directly with shop floor work cells to improve product quality.
• Partner with service team to participate in failure analysis activities, compile data and reduce product failure modes.
• Drive CAPA associated with product quality through the organization to ensure that any findings or non-conformances are addressed quickly.
• Leads audits of processes and quality systems.
• Summarize and present product quality data to Quality Manager monthly.
• Participate in the development of customer prototypes to ensure customer quality requirements are met.
• Serve as a mentor to the organization for advanced problem-solving techniques (8d, 5why, DMAIC).
• Define inspection processes, requirements, frequency, and sampling internally and through sub tier Drive improvements at key and critical suppliers to ensure high quality incoming materials Ready to support customers in different time zones.
• Willing to travel up to 10% domestic and international when required.
• Advocate for lean, 6S.
• As a member of the Boyd team, perform additional duties as required.

Requirements

• This position requires a bachelor’s degree in the appropriate discipline and 3 years of relevant experience.
• Prior experience with machining, welding, brazing, assembly-based manufacturing, lean, six sigma and 6S.
• Experience operating in an ISO9001 quality environment.
• Experience operating in an AS9100 quality environment a plus.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with and manage both suppliers and internal customers.
• Demonstrated record of leading multiple projects while working with stakeholders across multiple functions
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Familiarity with root cause determination tools such as 5-Why, Fishbone Diagrams, etc.
• Core skills/tools should include: Microsoft Office, 8D problem solving, GD & T, Six Sigma, Minitab (statistical analysis), SPC, FMEA Experience with implementation of statistical methods and their application.
• Potential applications may be, capability studies, gage repeatability and reproducibility (gage R & R), X-bar and R charts is a plus.
• Experience with brazing, plumbing, pumps, refrigeration, and troubleshooting of electro-mechanical parts is desirable.

Reporting

The Quality Engineer plays a key role within the Boyd organization. The Quality Engineer is a member of the Quality Team reporting to the Quality Manager.

Base Compensation

Base Compensation: $90,000-$100,000, bonus eligible. Split shift. #LI-LB2 All Job Posting Locations Billerica Remote Type On-Site

EEO Statement

Boyd Corp is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Boyd is the trusted global innovator of sustainable solutions that make our customers’ products better, safer, faster, and more reliable. As a leader in the industry we focus on our people, customers, technology, innovation, materials, and market needs of today and performance requirements of the future. We are always looking for ambitious minds to help us deliver advanced technology to our customers. Together we solve the challenges of today and empower solutions of tomorrow. Boyd is the world’s leading innovator in sustainable engineered material that make our customers’ products better, safer, faster, and more reliable. We develop and combine technologies to solve ambitious performance targets in our customers’ most critical applications. By implementing technologies and material science in novel ways to seal, protect, cool, and interface, Boyd has continually redefined the possible and championed customer success for over 90 years.