Quality Engineer (Night Shift)

What to Expect

Tesla’s Lathrop Castings is seeking a skilled and highly motivated Quality Engineer to join the team and contribute to our mission to build a world of amazing abundance. The Quality Engineer is a key person of the Lathrop Casting and CNC Machining Team. Quality and accuracy are paramount to the success of our team, the departments we support, and Tesla as a whole.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain control plan to verify first article, in process, and final product of various complex and critical components to engineering specifications
• Develop and maintain work instructions for production, process, and quality
• Able to coordinate MSA system and implement gauges to assure good quality of the product
• Able to handle supplier issues to maintain good quality result
• Focused on customer to handle customer issues and coordinate problem solving to reduce customer claim, ppms and scrap
• Able to manage new projects: Industrialization, Launching and start of production
• Able to handle dimensional information and dimensional software
• Focused and able to support production line 70% -80% of the time
• Train Quality inspectors and auditors
• Drive cross functional problem solving and implementation of countermeasures

What You’ll Bring

• Degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering or related engineering field, or equivalent experience

• 3+ years related experience in Quality Engineering in a manufacturing environment

• Knowledge and Experience with Core Tools (APQP, DF, PFMEA, Control Plan, Work instruction, MSA, SPC)

• Strong CATIA or 3D CAD experience

• Thorough knowledge and understanding of engineering drawings, documents, GD&T and able to support CMM activities

• Experience with CM4D or statistical software and analytical and mathematical skills

• Flexible ability to work overtime and AWS on short notice based on strategic needs of the company