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Vermont Employer QUALITY ENGINEER in ARLINGTON, Vermont
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Summary:Provides quality engineering support during new business development, new program launches and for existing customer programs
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support new business development
- Provides support to new business development relating to quality matters as needed
- Draft preliminary Quality Plan, if appropriate
- Provides cost and time estimates for anticipated quality department services such as metrology or validation services
- Functions as a resource for applicable ISO Program and QSR Program requirements
- Support Program Launch and Product Realization as functional
department representative assigned to team and Program Manager
- Reviews new program drawings/information/customer specifications to understand program requirements
- Determines quality and reliability standards and ensures dimensional and cosmetic requirements, as well as customer specifications, are defined and understood.
- Drafts program Quality Plan (as required) and metrology labor plan to include definition of required fixtures, calibration and metrology requirements and measurement methods needed to meet customer requirements for approval
- Drafts other required quality documentation such as Dimensional Visual Quality Requirements (DVQRs) and new product inspection techniques
- Confirms customer agreement on GD&T callouts/interpretations and all critical dimensions of program when required
- Prepares Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), as needed
- Prepares Traveler Document
- Develops required Control/Test methods
- Ensures First Article Inspection (FAI) and Capability Studies are scheduled and completed
- Completes FAI and capability study analysis for submission to customer
- Authors operational qualification (OQ) and performance qualification (PQ) protocols and provides training for protocol participants
- Oversees the execution of assigned OQ and PQ studies to ensure compliance with protocol requirements and completion of study tasks
- Authors OQ and PQ Completion Reports to include resolution of any deviations recorded and overall study conclusion
- Establishes golden sample standards and prepares and submits to customer via customer approval form (CAF) as required
- Attends program team meetings to address quality-related matters
- Performs assigned activities in a timely manner
- Provide continuous quality engineering support through program end
of life.
- Completes Certificates of Conformance (CoC) for outgoing products, where required
- Collects and analyzes production line data to monitor yield and defect performance
- Ensures golden samples are retained and controlled
- Maintains Device History Records (DHR) as necessary
- Performs periodic risk assessments, as required
- Assists Purchasing Department with maintaining vendor quality requirements
- Continuously monitors production to identify quality-related customer issues and supports corrective action plans when necessary
- Issue or authorize CCRs as needed. Manages the return of goods, assignments and close out of RC/CA.
- Conducts root cause investigation and develops corrective action plans for assigned problem reports (PSRs) and quality issues
- Manages product and process change control and notification to ensure required Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) are generated and approved by the customer prior to implem ntation.
- Attends program team meetings as necessary to resolve program quality issues to maintain customer satisfaction
- Support QBRs with customer and provides/presents quality-related topics
- Participates in customer, certified body, and regulatory audits as a subject matter expert for assigned products and processes
- Occasional domestic travel required
- Has a working knowledge of Statistical techniques and sampling plans and of Quality Systems Regulations and ISO Standards
Education/Experience:Bachelors degree (B.S.) in a technical (STEM or Engineering) field preferred, plus zero to two years related experience. Minimum education requirements are a H.S. diploma with 1 or more years of related quality experience. Experience in a 21CFR Part 820 or ISO 13485 quality system environment strongly preferred. Experience with Six Sigma or Lean manufacturing techniques preferred.
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