QLTY & RELIABILITY TECHNICIAN III

Job Overview

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to
create a safer, sustainable, and more connected world. 

TE Connectivity’s Quality and Reliability Engineering Teams analyze the ability of product and production systems to comply with customer and contractual requirements through established reliability factors. They design & recommend revisions and install quality control systems, develop, and document analytical methods for establishing reliability of products and their components and conduct analysis on relative reliability with regards to cost, structure, weight, maintainability, facility of production, and availability of materials and equipment.
They are responsible for policies and practices to comply with applicable government
regulations and industry requirements related to product environmental compliance, the implementation and management of technical and testing standards and specifications, quality control and reliability programs governing materials, product and processes, resulting in the optimization of material and labor, as well as failure analysis, root cause, corrective action and customer communication.

Job Responsibilities

•Establish inspection methodologies by combining knowledge of best-known measurement methods with available measurement and test equipment                                                              
•Use specialized test equipment to qualify/verify product
•inspect the color coding/ribbonization process real-time during the shuffle build  
•Assist with PDCA’s (Plan, Do, Check, Act) and PFMEA’s (Process Failure Modes and Effect’s Analysis)
•Understanding the importance of Good Documentation Practices, complete Quality records accurately and legibly and file appropriately 
•Coordinate MRB activities; provide and document disposition recommendations.  
•Evaluate nonconforming material to provide input regarding condition
•Identify opportunities for corrective/preventive action; perform effectiveness checks 
•Perform final product release activities (Certificate of Compliance)
•First Article creation. Every PT# built in the Arden Facility will require a TE FAI, not including PO’s that require a customer FAI.
•Be familiar with first article inspection requirements per AS9102
•Perform data entry to support monitoring of quality/performance trends
•Perform documentation review and dimension verification on received materials
•Revise work instructions to include clarification where needed (i.e., pictures added, instructions reworded, etc.)
•Be familiar with, and utilize, the organization’s ERP system (i.e., SAP)   
•Effectively communicate with vendors to ensure quality requirements are cascaded down 
•Work with vendors to conduct RCCA on any nonconforming product supplied to TE
•Assist with QNote creation, review and support SQE with findings
•Audit processes for compliance to established policies/procedures

Additional Responsibilities

•Aid in the development of and perform First Article Inspection under the direction of Quality/ Engineering 
•Assist in the development and revisions of Quality Inspection Plans and illustrations. 
•Execute documented validation protocols and provide feedback lo Quality/Engineering for inclusion in validation reports 
•Production line support where applicable and as instructed by QA team. 
•Verify process control effectiveness-gage checks, record maintenance, product segregation
•Verify product visually and dimensionally through in-process inspections 

This position requires access to information that is subject to stringent controls under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or Export Administration Regulations (EAR).   Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent residents, persons granted asylee status in the U.S., or persons admitted into the U.S. as a refugee.   

What your background should look like

•Competent with Microsoft Office applications
•General understanding of Statistical Process Control 
•Ability to read and interpret prints and customer requirements
•Proficient with standard dimensional gages-caliper, micrometer, drop Indicator, comparator, etc. 
•Proficient with Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM), Vision Systems, Digital Optical Comparator, and other advanced measurement test equipment
•Proficient with problem solving tools-RCA, 8D report, fishbone diagram, 5 whys, etc.
•Proven an effective member of a problem-solving team 

Education

•Associates degree 
•Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in a quality-related manufacturing role  

Competencies