Sr. Design Assurance Engineer

Overview

Join HARTING! A leader in connectivity products and custom solutions. We are seeking a Design Assurance Engineer(based in Elgin, Illinois) to ensure product development quality for HARTING connectors and custom cable assembly solutions.

• Perform quality planning in new product development and life cycle management projects
• Support the project team with relevant information (e.g., customer complaints, internal complaints of similar products and processes)
• Create and release quality documents (e.g., control plan, inspection instructions, inspection cards, process releases)
• Define and release test equipment
• Participate in special projects: relocations and duplications, new production technologies, new production facilities
• Moderate D + P FMEAs in the project/series (FMEA moderator)
• Edit internal and external complaints during pre-series production
• Create PPAs, plan in the team and check completeness of release documents
• Execute and document milestone gates incl. release and quality relevant compliance of the development process
• Assess milestone gate results and risks for project continuation in case of deviations
• Ensure and improve quality of project phase results for risk minimization
• Monitor and evaluate product/process quality within project phases, interrupt project continuation if necessary, and derive measures
• Check completeness of requirement/functional specification and design verification with Project Management incl. formal release
• Evaluate risks of sample status of components for type testing with Product Development and Industrial Engineering
• Receive overall component and end device release
• May perform other duties as assigned

• Experience in an Electronic/Electrical/Electro-Mechanical environment
• Able to troubleshoot failures
• 3-5 years of Product Development, Quality, Production Testing or Test Lab experience
• Preferred knowledge and application experience in ISO 9001, FMEA, Control Plans, PPAPs, First Article Inspections, Capability Analysis, Statistical Process Control, Root Cause Analysis, Six Sigma Green Belt
• Experience with Universal Testing Machine, Environmental Chamber, CMM, Oscilloscopes, Data Loggers, Hi Pot Test, Ingress Test, Programmable Controllers, Soft PCs, Industrial Networks (Ethernet, Fieldbus), RFID, Vision, Sensors, Servo Drives and Process Controllers
• Must be able to travel 5-10% of time (including international)
• Injection Molding experience is a plus

• Base salary $90,000 - $110,000 (commensurate with experience)
• 5% discretionary annual bonus
• 21 days PTO (36 days max)
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield options)
• Company-sponsored life, AD&D, and short- and long-term disability at no cost to employee
• Paid parental leave, tuition and fitness reimbursement, and a hybrid working policy
• 401(k) with 4% dollar-for-dollar match