Quality Engineer

Overview

Join a Global Leader in Analytical Instrumentation

Are you passionate about engineering innovation and looking to advance your career with a company at the forefront of analytical instrumentation? Bruker, a world leader in research and development solutions, invites you to join our team in Santa Barbara, CA as an Manufacturing Engineer.

With over 60 years of driving progress and more than 11,000 employees across 90 global locations, Bruker continues to shape industries and improve quality of life worldwide.

Bruker Nano, one of our four operating segments, empowers customers in academia, government, life sciences, and applied industries with the tools to uncover the properties of matter and visualize molecular structures. Our divisions span Nano Analytics, Nano Surfaces & Metrology, Fluorescence Microscopy, and Spatial Biology.

As a Quality Engineer at Bruker AFM, you’ll play a pivotal role in quality engineering, improving processes and being a key part of the manufacturing engineering team. If you’re ready to make a significant impact we encourage you to apply and become part of our innovative family.

• Following company policies and processes
• Initiating and supporting continuous improvement activities
• Creating metrics and reports as required
• Documenting and improving Quality Processes
• Training new employees on Quality Processes
• Guiding process users and answering questions
• Ensuring compliance with internal and external standards where applicable
• Approving Engineering Change Orders for Quality Engineering
• Participating in NPI projects as a core team member
• Supporting Manufacturing Engineering projects as needed
• Performing other functional duties as assigned by the supervisor
• Supporting Global Supply-chain Management (GSM) department on vendor selection and performance activities
• Supporting Receiving Inspection activities, answering their questions regarding processes, parts, design intents, drawings, inspection techniques, sampling plans and SAP QM transactions

• Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool
• Processing NCM data into databases (SAP)
• Managing Material Review Board (MRB) activities
• Managing MRB room inventory
• Managing MRB metrics and reports
• Ensuring on‑time disposition of NCM records and NCM material
• Ensuring NCM data integrity and compliance with internal and external standards, policies and procedures

• Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool Approving SDRs
• Monitoring and maintaining SDR process, work instructions, and PLM database
• Managing SDR metrics and reports
• Ensuring on‑time disposition of SDRs
• Ensuring SDR data integrity and compliance with internal and external standards, policies and procedures

• Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool
• Creating and maintaining Quality Inspection Plans in SAP
• Creating and updating QIR in SAP
• Ensuring SAP quality plans’ functionality and accuracy
• Preventing QIR and Quality Lot errors in SAP
• Working with manufacturing engineers and receiving inspectors to maintain quality plans and QIRs

• Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool
• Creating FAI requirements on FAI forms
• Reviewing and approve FAI results
• Managing FAI metrics and reports
• Ensuring on‑time disposition of FAI results

• Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool
• Chairing the OBQ board meetings
• Managing the OBQ action items
• Manage OBQ metrics

• Fluent in Microsoft Office Tools
• Advanced skills in MS Excel (data mining, macros, charts, tables, pivot tables etc)
• Experience with chairing Material Review Board (MRB) and NCM activities
• Excellent people skills and team player
• Experience with SAP material master and quality modules and transactions
• 3D CAD experience with ability to read mechanical drawings and make changes
• Knowledge of common inspection tools and how to use them
• Excellent understanding of fundamentals of quality assurance
• Proficiency in using conventional inspection equipment and CMM (or similarly advanced tools)

• ISO
  9001 or…