Quality Engineering Manager

About the role

Kyocera-AVX is looking for a Quality Engineering Manager to lead its quality across product development and manufacturing. The role maintains a focus on high-quality products, derives quality-driven metrics, leads continuous improvement and keeps the organization compliant with AS9100. It is a hands-on management position that works with customers, employees and suppliers to qualify processes, monitor quality performance and set product requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Guide the Quality team on failure investigations, root cause identification, FAI, incoming inspection and continuous improvement.
• Interface with customers to understand their quality needs and drive projects to address them.
• Create, analyze and report KPIs for CAPAs, SCARs, NCMRs, warranty failures and escapes.
• Work with Manufacturing and Product Engineering to investigate failures and drive responses.
• Collaborate with R&D so new designs meet customer requirements, quality standards and RAMS requirements.
• Manage suppliers and outside consultants and sub-contractors, and lead Quality Improvement and Kaizen events.
• Establish quality assurance procedures within the QMS and assess production and inspection systems.
• Direct QA/QC personnel, oversee the QA process and report recurring issues, audit findings and performance metrics to management.
• Maintain detailed records of quality activities and use QA data to improve processes.
• Own MRB/FRB and RCCA activities and report to customers on issues, corrective actions, FAI and source inspections.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience.
• Ability to engage actively in project work and strong interpersonal and critical thinking skills.
• Preferred: Master's degree in a relevant engineering discipline, aerospace/defense or electronics manufacturing experience, AS9100 audit experience, and experience with diode lasers, optics, opto-mechanical systems, Peltier modules, imaging systems or power electronics.

Required skills

• Failure investigation, CAPA, 8D and reliability studies.
• Solid foundation of QA processes, policies and methodologies.
• Numerical and statistical analysis and process improvement.
• Leadership of a team and ability to work with internal and external stakeholders.