Quality & Compliance Engineer

What you'll do 

The successful candidate will take primary responsibility for driving the quality programs to assure conformance, compliance, and certification from the standards organizations.  

Following are the essential functions: 

• Interact with Development Group, Manufacturing Department, and Project Teams to prevent compliance issues, research and identify applicable regulatory and industry compliance standards and codes, develop compliance policies.  

• Determine compliance by establishing compliance test standards; conduct and witness tests; perform diagnostic procedures; measure performance; analyze and evaluate findings; perform forensic analysis of failures; supervise sub-contractors. 

• Document compliance by completing approval applications; recording test results; preparing investigative reports; preparing and filing Declarations of Conformity; maintaining compliance. 

• Interact with Development Group, Manufacturing Department, and Project Teams to ensure that processes, controls, and checkpoints are properly applied and documented to conform to quality standard processes.  

• Develop, revise, enhance and maintain Quality Management supporting procedures and documentation. 

• Monitor manufacturing and customer support Quality metrics to generate Quality Engineering reports and present them to functional and upper management.   

• Monitor for complaints and defects in supply-chain or production, prioritize them, do root-cause analysis, alter tests and procedures as required, take corrective action, and bring them to closure.   

• Engage with regulatory bodies and Quality specialists to keep abreast of the industry trends and developments. 

• Establish effective interaction with wide spectrum of team members, stakeholders, and suppliers to discuss potential nonconformance risks and provide proactive corrective action if needed.  

• Take leadership role in preparing, assisting, facilitating, and coaching other departments to keep all Quality related metrics, scorecards and documentation updated and ready for review during pre-audit exercise as well as for the audit. 

What we're looking for 

• The successful candidate will have relevant qualifications and proficiency in general Quality Engineering methodology: 

• Knowledge of EMC and Safety regulatory requirements. 

• Knowledge of NEBS regulatory requirements, such as GR-63 and GR-1089. 

• Experienced in Quality inspection monitoring and measurement techniques for complex electronic assemblies and components. 

• In depth understanding of TL 9000 and ISO 9000 compliance procedures and requirements. 

• Understanding of advanced inspection methods, acceptance criterion, manufacturing assembly and test techniques. 

• Maintaining a sense of urgency for audit readiness. Avoid scramble as the date approaches. 

• Comfortable conducting company-wide pre-audits and act as a lead company representative during audits for Quality certifications.  

• Ability to read technical journals, engineering design documents, standard bodies publications, contractual documents and do other analysis. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate with suppliers, team members, management, and stakeholders. 

• Strategic and critical thinker who understands the big picture of the business needs and applies it to Quality processes with diligence and attention to detail. 

• Proficiency in Quality related automation tools is a plus. 

• Experience as TL 9000 or ISO 9000 Auditor is a plus.  

Must Have 

The successful candidate must have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or a related field is a must. Graduate degree is a plus.  

• 5-8 years related experience.