SR QLTY & RELIABILITY ENGINEER

Job Overview

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. Out teams develop, implement and monitor company environmental safety programs and policies to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, health and safety regulations and recommend corrective actions if necessary. 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.

Sr. Quality & Reliability Engineer works on systemic evaluation of quality processes, products, services, and manufacturing processes, to ensure that all products meet quality standards.  They review, analyze and report on quality discrepancies, investigates problems and executes quality audits. SR Quality & Reliability Engineering II works closely with manufacturing, engineering, customers, or suppliers and subcontractors to ensure requirements are met. 

Main Job Duties 
•    Develop & implement quality plans, manage CAPAs, Complaints, Non-Conformances, & procedures using current FDA regulations, ISO 13485 standard & other site standards in conjunction with other tools such as quality control statistics, lean manufacturing concepts, and six-sigma tools and analyses.
•    Provides root cause analysis & follow through on effective corrective actions. 
•    Tracks and reports quality metrics such as KPIs. 
•    Monitors product life cycle processes and products for adherence to company and regulatory standards and practices, monitoring the effectiveness of quality processes and tools. 

Other Job Duties
•    Supports and leads projects in the Quality department for improvement and compliance initiatives.
•    Drives continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the site quality system and product quality ensuring compliance to governing regulations and corporate policies and procedures. 
•    Identifies process and procedural gaps and ensures policies/procedures are implemented to fulfil the organizational business strategy. 
•    Establishes and maintains FMEA’s and validation plans for equipment.
 

What your background should look like:

•    Bachelor’s degree in appropriate field with a minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible professional level experience; a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience. 
•    Extensive experience with Quality Risk Management, Reliability Engineering, Statistical Quality Control (SQC) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
•    Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated the ability to influence and lead. 
•    Excellent “hands-on” technical skills. 
•    ASQ Certified Quality Engineer preferred.
•    Six Sigma Green/Black belt preferred.
•    Quality experience in component and device manufacturing preferred. 
•    Good working knowledge of ISO/FDA and other Product Development related regulatory requirements.
 

#NATASS #LI-ONSITE

Competencies