Staff Quality Engineer

TE Connectivity; Mount Joy (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 127,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

TE Connectivity is seeking a seasoned Quality and Reliability Engineer to analyze product and production system reliability and support conformance to customer requirements. You will lead root cause analyses, drive corrective actions, and coordinate cross-functional teams to improve processes across the lifecycle.

Responsibilities include reviewing First Article reports, ensuring nonconforming dispositions, and maintaining strong communication with customers while applying Lean Six Sigma tools

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/quality or reliability.
• 8+ years of industry experience.
• Strong root cause analysis and problem solving skills.
• Experience with ISO9001/AS9100 is a plus.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide root cause analysis and corrective action communications to customers.
• Utilize formal problem solving techniques to resolve issues with cross functional teams.
• Lead cross functional Notice of Escape teams for containment and action.
• Evaluate customer requirements during order processing and negotiate requirements.
• Design forms and instructions for recording, evaluating and reporting quality data.
• Review and approve First Article reports.
• Disposition nonconforming product and approve necessary deviations.

Skills

Root cause analysis

Cross functional teams

8D problem solving

Communication skills

Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt)

Negotiation skills

Problem solving tools

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/Quality or Reliability

Tools

SAP

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Job Overview

TE Connectivity is a $12 billion global technology leader. Our commitment to innovation enables advancements in transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy, data communications, and the home. TE’s unmatched breadth of connectivity and sensor solutions, proven in the harshest of environments, helps build a safer, greener, smarter and more connected world. With 75,000 people - including more than 7,000 engineers - working alongside customers in nearly 150 countries, we help ensure that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS - www.TE.com.

Overview

TE Connectivity’s Quality and Reliability Engineers analyze the ability of product and production systems to comply with customer and contractual requirements through established reliability factors. They design, recommend revisions, and install quality control systems, develop, and document analytical methods for establishing the reliability of products and their components, and conduct analysis on relative reliability with regards to cost, structure, weight, maintainability, facility of production, and availability of materials and equipment. They are responsible for policies and practices to comply with applicable government regulations and industry requirements related to product environmental compliance, the implementation and management of technical and testing standards and specifications, quality control and reliability programs governing materials, products, and processes, resulting in the optimization of material and labor, as well as failure analysis, root cause, corrective action, and customer communication. Please note: This position may involve working with technical data, technology, software/source code, hardware, or other items (collectively “items) subject to U.S. and non-U.S. export control laws and regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for TE to verify a candidate’s national origin and/or citizenship status to determine whether a U.S. or other government export license is required prior to releasing its technologies to the candidate. If TE determines that TE will require a license or will be prohibited by applicable laws from providing the candidate with items necessary for the performance of this position, then TE expressly reserves the right to either a) make an offer of employment contingent upon TE receiving required export licenses from the appropriate government agency, b) consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions TE shall establish in its sole discretion, or c) decline to move forward with the candidate’s application.

Job Requirements

• Provide root cause analysis and corrective action communications to our customers during quality issues within our target timeframes
• Utilize formal problem solving techniques to resolve product and process related issues, leading cross functional teams
• Lead Cross functional Notice of Escape teams, to ensure containment, root cause analysis, corrective action and communication to customers.
• Evaluate customer requirements during order processing, driving implementation of new customer specific requirements and negotiate requirements not in the best interest of TE Connectivity
• Designs and develops forms and instructions for recording, evaluating and reporting quality data
• Review and approval of First Article reports
• Work cross functionally to disposition nonconforming product found at incoming, in process or returned from customers and approve any deviations required.

What Your Background Should Look Like

• Bachelor’s Degree required in a related field to Engineering, Quality or Reliability Engineering. 8+ years of experience in the industry
• Up to 10% travel may be required including international travel
• Excellent presentation skills in addition to written and verbal communication skills required
• Must possess strong problem solving skills. Advanced problem solving tools such as Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Shainin Red X Journeyman a plus
• Excellent negotiation skills both internal and external to the company required and to drive completion of 8D documents that drive the business to world class manufacturing levels
• Experience leading problem solving teams and utilizing problem solving tools (8D's, 5-why analysis, fishbone diagrams)
• Working knowledge of quality systems in a ISO9001/AS9100 environment a plus
• Good computer skills with a working knowledge of SAP, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Competencies

About Te Connectivity

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more. Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Compensation

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $127,400 - 159,200 (subject to change dependent on physical location)
• Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
• Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.

EOE, Including Disability/Vets