Quality Engineer

Company: Inovar, Inc.
Location: Logan
Posted on: February 15, 2021

Job Description:

As a Quality Engineer with Inovar, you will have the opportunity to review and assess customer, regulatory, and internal requirements to assure that products and services provided by Inovar are compliant.
The Quality Engineer works with Program Management, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Quality Assurance to identify customer, internal, and supplier-related requirements and expectations and determine appropriate plans, methods, and procedures for the design, purchasing, manufacturing, testing, and inspection of products. The Quality Engineer works with medical, military, and aerospace standards through out the program and product life-cycles to assure timely, and cost-effective compliance. The Quality Engineer continuously plans, measures, prioritizes, improves, and works to remove constraints to balance customer advocacy with Inovar success.
Requirements:--- Strong customer service attitude and approach--- Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with suppliers, external customers, and internal partners--- Excellent analytical ability for process and product related data--- Ability to utilize a variety of techniques to assess root cause and solve problems--- Ability to manage multiple projects and/or issues simultaneously--- Ability to lead problem solving investigations and continuous improvement teams--- Excellent presentation and communication skills, both written and oral--- Strong experience with MS Office tools, (e.g. MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint)
Responsibilities:--- Promote and assure a safe and respectful team-based working environment--- Review and interpret customer, regulatory, and internal requirements into program and product specific quality planning and procedures for use in design, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, test, inspection, and customer delivery --- Assure the overall evaluation, auditing, compliance, and continuous improvement of the Inovar Quality Management System (QMS) and its elements--- Work with internal and external customers to efficiently analyze, resolve, and manage quality issues that arise to prevent negative impacts to product quality, service, schedule performance, and/or cost (e.g. internally-caused, supplier-caused, and customer-warranty)--- Develop and train methods for inspection, testing, evaluation, and product acceptance--- Develop and coordinate customer required quality documentation (e.g. APQP, FAIR, PPAP, Control Plans, PFMEA, Inspection Plans, Source Inspection documentation, etc.)--- Identify and drive proactive risk reduction, quality improvements, failure analysis, root cause analysis and drive permanent corrective actions and facilitate continuous process improvements --- Assure data availability, traceability, and product integrity in support of customer requirements--- Support engineering teams on equipment qualification and validation activities--- Consolidate, analyze, and report process and product quality results and issues to management and customers--- Other duties as assigned by management
Key Metrics:--- First Pass Yield (FPY), Scrap / Rework improvements--- Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) reduction--- Non-conforming material reduction--- On-Time Corrective Action response / Customer CAR acceptance Education/License/Experience required:--- Bachelor's degree in a related field (preferred)--- 3+ years of related work experience in the medical, military, or aerospace products sector--- Six Sigma or equivalent certification (e.g. Green / Black Belt) (preferred)--- Root Cause / Corrective Action experience (preferred)--- Material Review Board / Nonconforming Material Control experience (preferred)--- IPC and J-STD electronics certifications (preferred)--- Experience with AS9100, ISO:9001 Quality Management Systems (preferred)
**MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN**

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