Quality Engineer
Key Responsibilities:
1. Process and Product Development:
· Develop new processes/products and revise existing ones.
· Create and update project-specific quality plans, ensuring adherence to customer requirements.
· Work as part of a cross-functional team.
· Develop methods to measure products to ensure they meet quality standards.
· Troubleshoot measurement methods and equipment to ensure accuracy and reliability.
2. Validation:
· Lead validation of new products and technology (IQ, OQ, PQ).
· Act as QA lead for equipment validation.
3. Customer and Supplier Interface:
· Collaborate with customers and suppliers on new product processes.
· Lead customer complaints and supplier SCAR management.
4. Statistical Analysis:
· Compile and analyze statistical data to assess process capabilities.
· Conduct PFMEA, GR&R, and SPC studies.
5. Quality System Documentation:
· Create and maintain quality system documentation, including quality plans, inspection and control plans, and work instructions.
6. NCR and CAPA Management:
· Manage NCR, CAPA, and customer complaints from creation to closure.
· Use problem-solving tools and work as part of a cross-functional team.
7. Change Management:
· Lead changes in production, ensuring compliance with customer agreements, ISO standards, and internal requirements.
· Prepare, submit, and follow change requests (SCR) with customers.
8. Production Support:
· Assist production in achieving APU objectives.
· Generate quality KPIs for PSM2.
9. Audits:
· Perform internal and external audits.
10. Secondary Responsibilities:
11. Backup Support:
· Serve as backup for other QEs on customer or internal tasks as requested by the Director of Quality.
12. Continuous Improvement:
· Identify and support continuous improvement opportunities.
· Participate in LEAP workshops.
13. Training:
· Contribute to employee training.
14. Other Duties:
· Perform other duties as assigned.
Note: The Quality Engineer has a functional link with the QAR/QA inspectors.
In case of any issue escalated by the QAR about the DHR final acceptance and/or final CoC, the QE has authority to release or hold the DHR, approve the final CoC and/or decide the final status of the parts and release or hold the batch.
They can also escalate to the Director of Quality.
Required Qualifications:
· Bachelor degree in Manufacturing Engineering or related field.
· Minimum two years relevant experience / five years for senior position.
· Blueprint reading is mandatory – GD&T level expected
· Experience developing manufacturing quality plans.
· Experience conducting process capability, GR&R, PFMEA and SPC studies.
· Experience working on NCR / CAPA.
· Experience working in an ISO environment, preferably ISO 13485.
· Proficient PC skills in a Windows environment.
· Effective written and verbal communication skills.
· Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
· Experience in a precision machine shop environment.
· Experience optimizing processes to achieve ongoing cost reductions.
· LEAN / Six Sigma training and demonstrated application.
· Demonstrated use of structured problem-solving methods (i.e. 8D).
· Experience in internal and supplier audits.
· Experience using an ERP system.
· Experience of managing a staff or cross functional team lead for senior position
Physical Demands
· Must be able to sit, grasp items and perform keyboarding frequently.
· Must be able to reach, stretch and occasionally lift up to 30 lbs.
· Must be able to travel occasionally.
Sensory Requirements
· Normal vision.
· Normal hearing.
· Ability to communicate verbally.
Health, Safety & Environment responsibilities and skills:
· Participate in the development and promotion of the HSE culture
· Be exemplary in terms of health, safety and the environment, in particular by :
o Respecting and ensuring respect for the instructions and rules established in the field of health, safety and the environment (in particular the LISI golden rules)
o Immediately correcting, whenever possible, or reporting to his or her superiors and/or the HSE department, any malfunction or risky situation in the fields of health, safety and environmental protection
o Implementing preventive actions to reduce the environmental footprint and control health and safety risks
· Participate, upon request, in analyses (of risks, incidents) and HSE working groups related to his/her professional scope
· Be familiar with the main health and safety risks and the main environmental impacts relating to the scope of his/her work
· Be familiar with the site's HSE policy and objectives
· To be able to make proposals for improving working conditions and limiting environmental impact
