Design Assurance Engineer

At Gentex Corporation, we’ve created an environment where great ideas and great people can thrive. Leveraging a history that spans over 130 years, Gentex is a global leader in personal protection and situational awareness solutions for defense forces, emergency responders, and industrial personnel operating in high performance environments. Join our multinational team of exceptional and dedicated employees around the world and work on challenging and rewarding projects, grow your skills, and advance your career all while making a positive difference in the lives of our customers.

Together, you and Gentex can build a career that’s uniquely yours.

The Design Assurance Engineer contributes to product development by providing specific quality and test technical support.

• Provides recommendations for system improvements concentrating on new product development and manufacturing.
• Designs, documents, and implements test plans for developmental programs in accordance with customer, engineering and internal specification requirements.
• Implements new test equipment and procedures for test activities.
• Provides test engineering assistance to project/program managers.

• Be able to work independently by prioritizing daily work and do so in a professional manner.
• Provide independent “critical eye” analysis of engineering designs in the areas of product design (meeting customer’s requirements/needs), manufacturability, inspectability, reliability and safety.
• Review and interpret requirements, analyze obstacles, and determine best trade space to bound open-ended requirements.
• Provide leadership and guidance to Engineering, Quality, and Manufacturing teams to define test and inspection plans to verify and validate key product characteristics, process control parameters, and tooling in manufacturing.
• Develop and manage test plans and procedures for requirements verification and validation on new product development activities.
• Decompose customer-imposed acceptance requirements and correlate with product development strategies and stage gated review processes.
• In conjunction with Quality Engineering, ensure inspection instructions are fully developed and validated.
• Ensure first article inspections for production hardware are completed.
• Develop procedures, and determine measurement and test equipment requirements and availability, as required for the fabrication and testing of pre-production hardware. Teamed with the Manufacturing and Quality Departments, ensure procedures, and measurement and test equipment, for production hardware are fully developed and validated.
• Develop the quality requirements for prototype and pre-production hardware.
• The Design Assurance Engineer shall manage test activities. Specifically, the Design Assurance Engineer shall develop test plans/procedures, serve as the test manager/test engineer, and develop the test report(s).
• Develop acceptance test procedures as required for pre-production hardware and for production hardware.
• Address design assurance/quality issues and any related technical risks at the programmatic level.
• Evaluate design assurance/quality planning in the areas of inspections, testing, etc. of new designs.
• Understand the product design from a design assurance/quality standpoint (inspectability, adherence to customer performance, Statement of Work (SOW), and contractual requirements and internal quality requirements, product liability considerations, etc.), influence the capture of the design in the drawing structure, and approve the drawings.
• Teamed with the Quality Engineering Identify, acquire, and validate production inspection tooling, templates, gages, and fixtures.
• Teamed with the Quality Engineering…