Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

We’re hiring a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at our San Diego, CA location!

Join a stable, long-term opportunity where your work matters. We’re hiring a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to support production and ensure high-quality output in a fast-paced manufacturing setting.

Pay Range - $95,000 to $123,000 annually (Actual base pay based on factors such as relevant experience, education, market, qualifications, and skills.)

With nearly 80,000 employees globally, Kyocera is a leading manufacturer of high-tech ceramics in various industries, including aerospace, automotive, Medical applications, and semiconductor processing. Our innovative materials are found in everything from smartphones to space shuttles! Check out our profile video!

• Competitive pay, benefits, and hours
• 120 hours of vacation accrued per year to start (that's 3 weeks/year for regular 8-hour shifts!)
• 10 Paid Holidays per year
• 401(k) with company match
• Pension
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible schedules
• Tuition reimbursement

We have a long-tenured staff (many with over 30 years of service!), a vital company mission, and an excellent benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid time off to volunteer, paid leave options, tuition reimbursement, an employer-paid Pension and a 401(k) with both Roth and a healthy company match. Our larger locations also feature onsite gyms, walking tracks, exercise rooms, and employee gardens!

We strive to have a diverse workforce from all backgrounds, including minorities, women, and veterans, who bring their experience to support the innovation and quality that Kyocera is known for.

Kyocera International, Inc. also has a robust corporate culture and philosophy based on the experiences and writings of our founder, Dr. Kazuo Inamori, which you can learn more about here:  Our company motto is “Do the right thing as a human being,” and we try to use that motto constantly in our decision-making.

Exempt:
Yes

Safety Sensitive:
Yes

In conjunction with Senior Quality Manager, this position helps drive culture change towards a Quality-infused organization. The Senior Quality Engineer contributes to the development of project requirements based on corporate policies and strategies and uses independent judgment to influence decisions and timelines. Directs and coordinates activities to meet the technical, labor, and administrative requirements of multiple projects. Receives assignments and determines how to use resources to meet schedules and goals.

May personally assist with project implementation.

• Prevent repeat issues:
• Lead investigations, drive Root Cause analysis
• Deep dive into internal audit findings and Internal Corrective Action Reports to identify recurring themes
• Special Projects:
  Drive implementation of new software and equipment (including training and documentation as needed).
• Collect project-related information from various internal resources.
• Coordinate with key stakeholders.
• Establish project objectives, budget requirements, timelines, labor requirements, and resource planning.
• Establish “hand-off” criteria (i.e. clearly define what conditions must be in place to close the project)
• Maintain schedules, budgets, requirements, minutes, risk analysis, and mitigation plans.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously
• May recommend, evaluate, and test new software, hardware, and problem-solving methods. Use ability to independently assess and articulate options, risks, and trade-offs.
• Training resource for
• control plans
• FMEAs
• 8D
• 5 Whys
• Perform as an individual contributor to monitor, document, and…