Quality Engineer - Focus

Title: Quality Engineer

Location: Brookshire, TX (potentially Katy, TX for short period)

Business Department/Function: Power Electronics Systems/Quality

General Role Description: Monitor and assess the business unit's (BU) quality assurance program, ensuring manufacturing and supplier compliance with system design and standards

Role Accountabilities:

• Recommend quality metrics to drive supplier 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
• Analyze needs and develop criteria for selecting suppliers who consistently provide high-quality products and systems for integration into the Company's solutions
• Monitor and analyze non-conformance data; recommend, develop, and implement appropriate responses in collaboration with procurement management
• Monitor supplier RCA's and CAR's for timely and thorough generation and distribution, escalating as necessary
• Evaluate new suppliers' manufacturing and quality processes, utilizing the Company's supplier qualification system
• Ensure quality assurance assessments at established supplier and client sites are performed in compliance with Company requirements
• Provide management with timely updates on vendor compliance status, trends, process improvements, and similar measures
• Ensure all warranty claims and failures in the field are investigated and root cause analysis is performed
• Perform internal and external audits and facilitate action plans for non-conformers
• Train employees on ISO-9001, statistical techniques, problem solving and quality awareness
• Create and update policies, procedures, standards, and work instructions to promote continuous improvement across production and business operations
• Develop processes that effectively reduce shop floor deviation and waste
• Develop the path to achieve integrated business management in accordance with ISO standards
• Manage and lead internal and external audit program, ensuring that all processes meet established standards
• Perform vendor audits, recording and monitoring vendor quality and recommend improvements based on analysis
• Run monthly report of nonconforming items and scrap for management
• Develop standardized work processes and process improvements as requested by management
• Resolve problems ensuring quality needs are being met and manufacturing criteria are adhered to, escalating as necessary

General Employee Accountabilities:

• Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager
• Give manager best advice
• Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified
• Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager
• Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment
• Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws
• Recommend viable improvements proactively
• Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS degree in electrical, mechanical, or industrial engineering; or related physical or applied science; or equivalent via education and/or work experience
• 3 years' related work in manufacturing, quality control, or design engineering with accountability for supplier quality assurance and selection
• 3 years' experience working in an ISO-9001, 2015 environment
• 3 years of experience with internal/external auditing, related to ISO 9001, 2015
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• 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
• Proficiency in MS Office
• Ability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 20%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications:

• QT-9 Management System Experience
• Demonstrated experience in utility scale PV inverter manufacturing