Quality Engineer

The Quality Engineer oversees the qualification and maintenance of laser powder bed fusion metal 3D printers and qualification of RPS printed part production. The Quality Engineer will work both independently and on teams with other engineers under the supervision of Quality management to put together project plans. The job functions will cover overseeing, driving and improving quality in manufacturing, supply chain and field service.

Job Responsibilities

• Operate in the inspect, diagnose, and repair mindset.
• Provide in-process inspection activities.
• Work closely with manufacturing, process, field service and quality teams to establish and maintain processes and procedures that will ensure consistently high quality.
• Drive CAPA activity using established processes to determine the root cause of problems and drive for implementation of corrective actions and countermeasures.
• Comprehend current production quality trends based on dashboards or from occurrences in the line.
• Rapidly communicate emerging and trending quality issues.
• Execute timely corrective action for quality mitigation and containment.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support investigation, containment, and execution for strategic quality issues.
• Flexibility for dynamic changes in day-to-day work as it pertains to daily quality priorities.
• Maintain quality performance metrics and drive issues to root cause solutions.
• Audit manufacturing line against released manufacturing processes and procedures.
• Assist in the identification and resolution of manufacturing quality issues, contain parts or products as needed, sort parts for quality requirements.
• Participate in continuous improvement activities, with manufacturing and external suppliers.
• Take part in an ongoing optimization of the products with respect to both cost and production technology.
• Assist with external and internal audit activity.
• Support FMEA activities to ensure design and manufacturing issues are identified and risks mitigated.
• Analyze and disposition product nonconformances as a member of the Material Review Board.
• Analyze and interpret data independently.
• Anticipate potential problems and take preventative action.
• Help running supplier continuous improvement plans.

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