Quality Engineer

Focal Point Lighting is looking for a Quality Engineer with high aptitude and energy to implement and execute quality system best practices in the manufacturing, supplier, and new product development (NPD) processes. This position will help drive improvement to products and processes by working with engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, and field service. The person who holds this position must have abilities and experience with quality management systems, lean methodology, problem solving, technical documents, metrology, and auditing.

This position reports to the Quality Engineering Lead.

• Maintain and improve quality control systems and procedures for lighting products and components.
• Review and update controlled documents with internal departments.
• Monitor operations, supplier, and customer metrics. Take containment and corrective actions based on nonconformance events and trends in metrics.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions related to internal, supplier, and customer nonconformances.
• Support internal quality management audits as well as corporate social responsibility audits.
• Monitor supplier capability and compliance by conducting in-person and virtual audits.
• Review first article and PPAP data from suppliers and work with engineering to determine compliance or corrective action.
• Participate in cross-functional teams on process optimization and cost reduction kaizens.
• Ingenuity and aptitude - ability to apply old knowledge to new problems and to obtain new knowledge and apply it.
• Proven track record of leading through influence. Able to build strong team relations with peers and work collaboratively with people across all levels and departments. Has the personality to run meetings and appropriately motivate others to action and collaboration.
• Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and written, with all levels of work force including production workers, engineers and upper-level management.
• Customer-focused with a high sense of urgency.
• Highly self-motivated to succeed and drive improvement with the ability to work independently plus in a team environment and see all work through to completion.
• Detail-oriented, with a desire to “roll up your sleeves” to help the team get the job done.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited program
• 3 - 5 years of experience and achievement working for a manufacturing organization as a quality engineer. Similar roles and work experience will be considered.
• Computer proficiency - Knowledge with MS Suite products.
• Working knowledge and experience with quality system and process standards; including ISO
  9001.
• Familiarity with 7QC tools and quality methodologies (e.g. Ishikawa, Pareto, FMEA, PPAP, SPC)
• Blueprint and specification reading. Use of measurement tools and inspection methods.
• Salary Range: $70,000 - $90,000 starting base plus bonus
• Summary of Benefits:
  Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, Disability, Parental Leave, 401K w/ company match

Focal Point is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All candidates will be evaluated on the basis of their qualifications for the job in question. We do not base our employment decision on an employee's or applicant's race, color, religion, age, gender or sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic identity, genetic information, disability, veteran/military status or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.