Engineering Technician, Parts Quality

What to Expect

The Parts Quality Engineering Technician works with cross-functional teams (Design, Quality, Production, Sustaining, and Supply Chain) throughout the entire lifecycle of a product (from initial design through prototype development and into full production). Her/His role consist of make sure the production line is quickly protected from parts quality related issues through providing quick response to containment requests from production/quality teams while completing documentation for sorts and reworks (defining a proper method of inspection). The Parts Quality Technician communicates with suppliers to expedite containment actions and follow up with corrective action owners, collaborating on the RCCA processfinding, additionally, ways to reduce cost through inspection/rework method identification.

What You’ll Do

• Consistently perform higher level root cause investigations utilizing quality systems
• Has substantial understanding of the job and applies knowledge and skills to complete a wide range of tasks
• Works on assignments that are moderately difficult, requiring judgment in resolving issues or in making recommendations
• Normally receives little instruction on daily work, general instructions on newly introduced assignments
• Ability to effectively document and communicate investigation results
• Can use basic features of JIRA, X-Ray, Tableau, and other data acquisition systems
• Intermediate Excel knowledge (plots, Pareto Charts, etc.)

What You’ll Bring

• Deep understanding of the product, including functionality of subassemblies and features
• Deep understanding of failure modes
• Deep understanding of how to apply current test methods to verify product
• Can clearly identify defect source using data
• Can understand PFMEA RPN values (SeverityOccurenceDetection)
• Regularly works with cross-functional team to improve inspection criteria
• Uses knowledge of production process to recommend changes based on observation and data