Quality Process Engineering:
- Reviews quality standards and implements control measures, including sampling and testing methodologies, to ensure components meet metrics and to resolve recurring reliability issues
- Operates and troubleshoots specialized equipment and instruments to maintain the technical infrastructure required for research and safety testing
- Updates and maintains documentation, including drawings and schematics.
- Develops and modifies procedures and associated documentation.
Quality Assurance & Supplier Quality:
- Assists in implementing quality assurance plans, inspection strategies, and quality control processes to ensure compliance with project requirements and quality standards.
- Support supplier quality activities, including source inspections, First Article Inspection Reports (FAIR), acceptance reviews, and vendor assessments.
Project Coordination & Collaboration:
- Collaborate with scientists, engineers, technicians, suppliers, and project leadership to identify risks, resolve technical and quality issues, and support project objectives.
- Communicates with other engineering functions, including design, process, production, quality, and reliability.
- Handles the documentation of procedures and analyzes experimental data to prepare comprehensive reports that ensure transparency and traceability for management review.
Risk Management & Reliability:
- Monitors the safety of personnel and equipment to identify risks, implement mitigation plans, and support campus health, safety, and environmental compliance
- Participates in investigations of nonconformances and quality issues, including root-cause analyses and corrective and preventive action (CAPA) activities.
- Support risk and reliability assessments, including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and assist with the development and tracking of mitigation plans.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):
- Working knowledge of quality assurance methods, configuration management, engineering change control, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), and risk assessment techniques, including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
- Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary engineering teams and manage multiple assignments.
Physical Requirements and Environmental Demands:
- Noise levels may be sufficient to require shouting in order to be heard above surrounding noise.
- Work safely around moving machinery, vehicles, electrical equipment, and energized systems.
- Perform work from ladders, scaffolding, elevated platforms, and other high locations as required.
- Safely handle and work around chemicals, oils, lubricants, and cutting fluids.
- Follow established safety protocols and personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements.
