Quality Engineer (EE26037)

Job # EE26037

Job Title Quality Assurance Engineer

Office Location Houston, TX Preferred

Business Function /Department Energy and Infrastructure Solutions / Technical Services

Sales Territory, if applicable N/A

General Role Description

Monitor and assess the Company’s quality assurance program, ensuring supplier compliance with the system design and standards

Role Accountabilities

-   Advise on product quality initiatives related to field failures

-   Produce root cause analysis (RCA) for field failure events as required, including site investigation

-   Distinguish between design issues, manufacturing defects, commissioning errors, and field/environmental conditions

-   Maintain failure in time (FIT) reporting on company products

-   Maintain and analyze field failure data, and report on trends in field failures in commissioning and production

-   Recommend quality metrics to drive company products and supplier equipment improvements, preventive actions, and

business results, and implement as approved

-   Direct and coordinate the overall quality specifications and standards for materials and finished products to meet client purchase order requirements

-   Monitor and analyze non-conformance data; recommend, develop, and implement appropriate responses in collaboration

with procurement management

-   Monitor supplier RCA's and corrective action requests (CAR), critically evaluate RCA quality, and escalate when evidence or corrective actions are insufficient

-   Evaluate new equipment suppliers' manufacturing and quality processes, utilizing the Company’s supplier qualification in collaboration with procurement

-   Evaluate repair and remediation activities and failures to improve quality and RCA production

General Employee Accountabilities

-   Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

-   Give manager best advice

-   Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

-   Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

-   Exemplify Company Core Values:  Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

-   Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

-   Recommend viable improvements proactively

-   Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• BS degree in electrical, mechanical, or industrial engineering; or related physical or applied science; or equivalent via education and/or work experience
• 4 years related work experience in manufacturing, quality control, quality assurance or design engineering with direct responsibility for field failure analysis, supplier quality, and technical root cause analysis (RCA)
• Demonstrated ability to produce technically defensible RCAs based on evidence and system-level analysis
• Demonstrated experience with data analytics tools (Excel, Power BI) and FIT / MTBF reporting
• Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
• Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• Possession of a recognized quality certification such as CQE, ASQ, or Six Sigma Yellow Belt
• Proficiency in MS Office programs
• Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 50%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

-     Successful development of a manufacturing quality process or supply chain quality assurance process

-     Power electronics experience: PV Inverter experience and MV Drives in engineering, manufacturing, field repair or quality

-     MV Drive experience in engineering, manufacturing, field repair, or quality

-     Electrical failure mode analysis (IGBTs, PCBs, capacitors, cooling systems)

-     Systems-integration experience involving transformers, switchgear, protection relays, and SCADA

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website:  https://www.tmeic.com/.  To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting.  A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application.  Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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