Quality Engineer

Responsibilities

• Monitor and assess the Company’s quality assurance program, ensuring supplier compliance with the system design and standards
• Advise on product quality initiatives related to field failures
• Produce root cause analysis (RCA) for field failure events as required, including site investigation
• Distinguish between design issues, manufacturing defects, commissioning errors, and field/environmental conditions
• Maintain failure in time (FIT) reporting on company products
• Maintain and analyze field failure data, and report on trends in field failures in commissioning and production
• Recommend quality metrics to drive company products and supplier equipment improvements, preventive actions, and business results, and implement as approved
• Direct and coordinate the overall quality specifications and standards for materials and finished products to meet client purchase order requirements
• Monitor and analyze non-conformance data; recommend, develop, and implement appropriate responses in collaboration with procurement management
• Monitor supplier RCA's and corrective action requests (CAR), critically evaluate RCA quality, and escalted when evidence or corrective actions are insufficient
• Evaluate new equipment suppliers' manufacturing and quality processes, utilizing the Company’s supplier qualification in collaboration with procurement
• Evaluate repair and remediation activities and failures to improve quality and RCA production

• BS degree in electrical, mechanical, or industrial engineering; or related physical or applied science; or equivalent via education and/or work experience
• 4 years related work experience in manufacturing, quality control, quality assurance or design engineering with direct responsibility for field failure analysis, supplier quality, and technical root cause analysis (RCA)
• Demonstrated ability to produce technically defensible RCAs based on evidence and system-level analysis
• Demonstrated experience with data analytics tools (Excel, Power BI) and FIT / MTBF reporting
• Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
• Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• Possession of a recognized quality certification such as CQE, ASQ, or Six Sigma Yellow Belt
• Proficiency in MS Office programs
• Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 50%, sometimes with limited notice
• Successful development of a manufacturing quality process or supply chain quality assurance process
• Power electronics experience: PV Inverter experience and MV Drives in engineering, manufacturing, field repair or quality
• MV Drive experience in engineering, manufacturing, field repair, or quality
• Electrical failure mode analysis (IGBTs, PCBs, capacitors, cooling systems)
• Systems-integration experience involving transformers, switch gear, protection relays, and SCADA