Senior Design Quality Assurance Engineer - Lead CARB & ECC

Forgent Power Solutions, Inc.; Champlin (MN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO/ESST

Paid holidays

Health insurance: $100 individual / $…

Paid Weekly

Vision and Dental Insurance

401K / Life Insurance / STD

Job summary

Forgent Power Solutions, Inc. in Champlin, MN seeks a Sr. Design Assurance Engineer to own design quality for Solutions product lines, driving root cause analysis and corrective actions to catch defects before manufacturing.

The role also leads CARB and ECC/CCB governance, and ensures design changes are reflected in drawings, BOMs, and PLM systems. Responsibilities include running CARB and CCB, performing root cause analysis, tracking actions, and presenting metrics to leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years in design engineering or quality engineering within electrical equipment, switchgear/switchboard, or panel manufacturing.
• Problem solving and root cause analysis (8D, A3, DMAIC) and CAPA experience.
• Experience owning an engineering change control process (ECO/ECN) and facilitating a cross functional board (CCB, CARB, or MRB).
• Able to turn quality and change data into Pareto, trend, and cost of poor quality analysis, and translate findings into process or standard changes. Strong Excel required; Power BI or Smartsheet a plus.
• Working knowledge of low voltage switchboard/switchgear design and UL 891 / UL 1558 requirements.
• Familiarity with design and PLM/PDM tools such as AutoCAD Electrical, SolidWorks, Autodesk Vault, and Fusion Manage.
• Able to present findings clearly to engineering and quality leadership.

Responsibilities

• Run the CARB for design issues: set agenda and cadence, present incoming issues, and secure an owner, containment action, and due date for every accepted item.
• Perform root cause analysis on design defects, non-conformances, and field issues, and drive corrective actions that prevent recurrence rather than fix one job.
• Own closure: track actions against due dates, elevate stalled items, verify effectiveness with evidence, and close only once the fix is embedded in a standard, checklist, template, or tool.
• Manage the ECC process end to end: intake, review, disposition, implementation, verification, and closure, with clear rules for what requires board review.
• Run the CCB: convene on a fixed cadence, prepare change packages, drive each to a documented disposition, and hold owners to committed implementation dates.
• Confirm approved changes land in every affected document and system (drawings, schematics, models, BOMs, PLM/PDM), and enforce change record data quality.
• Attend cross functional design reviews as the design quality voice and support the peer and team lead tiers, bringing known failure modes and open corrective actions into each.
• Ensure design review effectiveness and adherence to the process.
• Publish review effectiveness as a red/green indicator by review type, project, and site. Own the design quality metrics: design accuracy by engineer and by project, issue closure rate, and escape rate into manufacturing.
• Quantify the cost, rework, and schedule impact of design driven engineering changes.
• Prioritize root cause analysis on the design issues that disrupt manufacturing flow.
• Classify root causes as process, person, or tool, and aim the countermeasure accordingly.
• Maintain Pareto and trend analysis by product line, site, discipline, root cause, and change cycle time, and drive top contributors to permanent resolution through CARB.
• Improve design standards, checklists, and training to stop design issues from recurring.
• Share ECC and design change analysis with engineering on a regular cadence: top failure modes and the actions addressing them.
• Report performance to engineering and Quality leadership: CARB and CCB throughput, open and overdue actions, change volume and cycle time, and top Pareto items with countermeasure progress.
• Partner with the Engineering Managers to drive open design quality actions to closure.
• Standardize design quality practices, corrective action handling, and change control across Solutions sites (Hanover, Champlin, Dayton).
• Verify that UL listing and labeling escapes (UL 891 / UL 1558) are addressed at the design stage.

Skills

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Cross functional collaboration

Communication

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD Electrical

SolidWorks

Autodesk Vault

Fusion Manage

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Forgent Power Solutions, Inc. in Champlin, MN seeks a Sr. Design Assurance Engineer to own design quality for Solutions product lines, driving root cause analysis and corrective actions to catch defects before manufacturing.

The role also leads CARB and ECC/CCB governance, and ensures design changes are reflected in drawings, BOMs, and PLM systems. Responsibilities include running CARB and CCB, performing root cause analysis, tracking actions, and presenting metrics to leadership.