Quality Engineer

KYOCERA AVX Components Corporation; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

KYOCERA AVX Components Corporation in San Diego, CA seeks a Quality Engineer to support design and manufacturing teams to improve quality and reliability, with exposure to customers and suppliers.

The role involves ensuring products are manufacturable, meeting specifications and environmental requirements, applying quality tools, and driving corrective actions across centers; some travel is required to supplier and customer sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality Management or related field.
• Experience with quality tools and systems (SPC, MSA, PPAP, 8D).
• Familiarity with ISO-9001, IATF-16949, MIL-STD-810, IPC standards desirable.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand manufacturing processes for antennas and how they affect quality.
• Ensure designs are manufacturable and meet specifications and environmental standards.
• Follow qualification and change-control processes for products.
• Improve quality using process controls, inspection data, and analysis.
• Perform failure analysis to determine root causes and document with 8D reports.
• Support ISO/IATF compliance across design centers and factories.
• Travel to Kyocera-AVX locations, suppliers, and customer sites as needed.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Customer Support

Analytical Thinking

Problem Solving

Data Analysis

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Quality Management

Tools

Smartsheet

Minitab

MS Excel

Job description

The successful candidate will provide Quality Engineering support to the Design and Manufacturing teams to improve quality and reliability and will participate in a variety of activities that can include direct interaction with customers, suppliers, and other KYOCERA AVX Design Centers and Factories.

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

The successful candidate will provide Quality Engineering support to the Design and Manufacturing teams to improve quality and reliability and will participate in a variety of activities that can include direct interaction with customers, suppliers, and other KYOCERA AVX Design Centers and Factories.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand manufacturing processes for various antenna (stamped metal, PCB, FPC, LDS, Ceramic Chip, Ceramic Patch, etc.) and how these processes can affect the physical and electrical characteristics of the antenna.
• Work with the Design and Manufacturing Teams to ensure designs are manufacturable and factories produce products that meet design specifications, environmental compliance, and social responsibility.
• Follow the Part Qualification Process and complete qualification of new antenna products.
• Follow the Change Control processes for changes to products.
• Improve quality performance using process controls, product inspection, data analysis, and problem-solving tools.
• Perform failure analysis and process investigation to determine the root cause of problems.
• Utilize Corrective Action (8D) reports to close issues with internal and external customers.

• Support the Design Centers and Factories with Quality Management System and ensure compliance to ISO-9001, IATF-16949, IPC-600, IPC-610, MIL-STD-810, etc.
• Travel to other Kyocera-AVX locations, suppliers, and customers sites as needed.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree (Engineering, Quality Mgt., Tech. Mgt., etc.) and prior relevant work experience.
• Strong Customer Support with good written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office tools.

• Manufacturing experience or Internship in quality environment is preferred with familiarity with quality tools such as SPC, MSA (Gage R&R), PPAP, Root Cause Analysis (Fishbone, 5 Why, Fault Tree), Corrective Action 8D reports, and reliability testing is preferred but not required.
• Familiarity with ISO-9001, IATF-16949, MIL-STD-810, IPC-600, IPC-610, Mil-STD-810, RoHS, REACH, Cal Prop 65 etc. is preferred.
• Experience with Smartsheet and Minitab is preferred but not required.

EEO STATEMENT: Kyocera-AVX is an Equal Opportunity Employer: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.