Quality Engineer- Electronics Products & Systems

IDEX; Ocala (FL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

IDEX seeks a Quality Engineer to join a dynamic Product Development Team, working with engineering and Senior Electronics Engineers to document and verify functional, regulatory and environmental requirements for electronic products. You will support legacy and new designs, identify quality trends with the RMA group, and ensure compliance with ISO standards across sites.

The role emphasizes collaboration with suppliers and contract manufacturers, root cause analysis, and process improvements to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in either quality, engineering, supply chain management or manufacturing processes.
• Must be able to travel as needed to support regional activities.
• 5+ years' experience with at least 2 years in a supplier quality role.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to read, analyze and interpret technical information.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the creation and implementation of quality vision, strategy, policies and processes.
• Work with Engineering to develop standards for hardware across business units.
• Coordinate with Contract Manufacturers to address problems and develop standards.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for supplier and contract manufacturer quality issues.
• Administer ISO 9001:2015 quality system requirements across sites.

Skills

Quality engineering

Communication skills

Six Sigma/Lean

Root cause analysis

Supplier relations

Education

Bachelor's degree in quality, engineering, supply chain management or manufacturing processes

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact. With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you. This position is not eligible for sponsorship of U.S. work visas.

Position Summary

The Quality Engineer will function in a dynamic Product Development Team and will work closely with the engineering department and Senior Electronics Engineers to help document functional, regulatory and environmental requirements for electronic products and systems. In addition, the Quality Engineer shall support both Legacy and New product designs related to quality issues. The Quality engineer will work with the RMA department to identify trends that will help identify quality issues and work with engineering to correct the issues. The Quality engineer will work with engineering and help guide and make sure we are following our ISO requirements and standards.

Essential Functions

• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice quality vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
• Work with Engineering to develop standards that will be used across the different business units, so hardware is developed to the same standards and quality.
• Work directly with the various Contract manufactures to address problems and develop standards to be utilized.
• Work with Engineering (Design and Manufacturing Engineers) team to define process parameters and criteria to ensure supplier process capability is effective to meet product and process requirements.
• Interfaces with customers, suppliers, and program personnel on quality related issues.
• Support Purchasing and Contract Manufactures to coordinate with engineering on supply chain issues and part replacements.
• Help manage the root cause analysis and corrective actions process of both supplier quality issues and Quality issues from Contract Manufactures.
• Assist with on-site supplier visits for root cause analysis and verification of corrective actions of Contract Manufacture quality issues.
• Administers and oversee all ISO 9001:2015 quality system requirements related to all sites as required.
• Work with engineering to validate the Electronic department processes and resources are being followed during development.
• Performs assessments and audits on processes and procedures to ensure compliance to specifications, engineering drawings, procedures as required by Quality / ISO commitments.
• Review product specifications necessary to establish quality and reliability objectives for the Electronics department.
• Be part of all first article inspections of product being received from Contract Manufactures.
• Mine and investigate issue data gathered by tech & customer service to identify trends or incipient field issues and call for action to prevent minor issues from growing into larger problems.
• Work across the 4 NA business units.

All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Bachelor's degree in either quality, engineering, supply chain management or manufacturing processes. Must be able to travel as needed to support regional activities. 5+ years' experience with at least 2 years in a supplier quality role.

Communication Skills: Ability to read, analyze and interpret common scientific and technical journals. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to effectively present information to company management as well as customer staff for reporting and/or training purposes.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts. Ability to apply mathematical operations in such areas as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, factor analysis, and abstract calculus theory as pertaining to design and validation methodologies.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply principles of logical and scientific thinking to a wide range of abstract and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulae and equations, graphs, etc.).

Knowledge, Skills and Required Abilities: Microsoft Office Suite Six Sigma/Lean skills. Experience of dealing with customers and suppliers. Ability to work independently and collaboratively with others toward mutual objectives. Ability to communicate and enlist support for the vision of the organization. Strong written and oral communication skills. Strong ability to use business metrics to drive improved business and operational results. Strong Project Management Skills Significant experience in manufacturing auditing.

Other Qualifications: Good analytical and trouble shooting skills. Good reasoning methods and a methodical approach to testing and problem solving. Accuracy and attention to detail. Ability to deliver results in a fast paced multi-tasking environment. Application experience with testing electronic products/systems for Internal Combustion Engines, Heavy Duty Custom Trucks, and industrial pumps is a plus. Experience with automated systems testing is a plus. Ability to work well with variety of people and cultures in a small local engineering group interfacing with remote sites and the larger global environment. Ability to work with a limited amount of supervision. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: Sit and talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to walk and use hands to handle or feel.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to ten pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to fifty pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to the following environmental conditions: Moving mechanical parts; outside weather conditions and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate typical of an office with occasional work requiring foot, hearing and eye protection.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

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