Quality Engineer/Senior Quality Engineer - Bosch Group

The Communications Systems Division of Bosch Security Systems is headquartered in Burnsville, Minnesota. Our product segments include Critical Communications Systems, Pro Sound, and Public Address & Conferencing.  With our premium brands: Bosch, Dynacord, Electro-Voice, RTS and Telex, we provide solutions that reflect our brand values for audio quality, and innovation. The company’s broad portfolio of products and systems are used by government agencies, hospitals, critical infrastructure facilities, broadcast TV stations, cable head end stations, electronic media campuses, mobile sports production truck companies and in many other commercial and industrial environments throughout the country.

Are you a Senior Quality Engineer that is passionate about creating something new? Join our team where you will be responsible for identifying and implementing high quality product development strategies that are in line with our business needs.  You will bring enthusiasm to the team and work with a diverse set of people and products, to achieve goals independently in a structured environment.  Are you ready to embrace this challenge and grow together?

The Senior Quality Engineer (SQE) will lead the quality function in product development to ensure quality targets are properly defined and implemented, lessons learned are translated (“designed-in quality”), while contributing Time-to-Market and higher customer satisfaction.  The SQE will work together with other divisional experts or with Trade Good Suppliers in an international environment, to manage quality activities and ensure continuous improvement efforts across the organization.

• Derive measures to improve preventive quality of our products and contribute to their implementation in the development process
• Collaborate with teams throughout the product lifecycle and track appropriate quality assurance measures to achieve required product maturities
• Create methods and reports to manage stakeholder expectations and foster data-driven communication in quality.
• Lead quality function in product development to ensure quality improvement opportunities are identified, targets are properly defined and implemented, lessons learned are translated to projects. during product development (“designed-in quality”), and requirements for quality gates are met.
• Monitor and conduct analysis of warranty return & repair data, failure cost, and customer complaints for early detection of quality-related problems with a data driven approach.
• Develop quality improvement targets in alignment with overall business objectives.
• Identify and drive quality improvement and warranty cost reduction initiatives by ensuring timely and methodological problem solving through techniques such as  8D, Fishbone, 5why, etc.
• Manage Trade Good Supplier quality issues and supplier development.
• Contribute to reduced Time-to-Market by improved execution of processes and avoidance of deviations in projects and products.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a comparable degree program (Master’s Degree is a plus).
• Minimum of 5 years of professional work experience in hardware products and quality engineering is preferred.
• Experience working for a global organization and in manufacturing or related industry is preferred.
• Experienced in development processes, preferably in agile principles as well as ISO Standards (i.e. ISO 9001, AS9100)
• Quality Manager Certification, ISO Auditor and/or PMI Project Management Certification is desirable.
• Must demonstrate flexibility and act as a strong team-player across different international and multicultural stakeholders, with a distinctive sense of responsibility, customer orientation and a high level of social competence.
• Must be resilient in a changing business environment, and have excellent communication skills.
• Must lead with confidence across different management levels and work cross-functionally.
• Must have a process-oriented way of thinking paired with a strong analytical approach.
• Must be fluent in spoken and written English (German is a plus).
• Domestic and international travel required up to 20%. 

• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
• By choice, we are committed to a diverse workforce - EOE/Protected Veteran/Disabled.
• BOSCH is a proud supporter of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Initiatives: FIRST Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and AWIM (A World In Motion)