Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer

Our Senior Quality Engineer will provide leadership for quality engineering support on assigned programs and production lines to ensure product is designed, procured, and built in accordance with customer and OTTO Engineering’s quality, reliability, and regulatory requirements. Specifically, the Senior Quality Engineer will:

- Participate in the review of all design, manufacturing, procurement, and test documentation to ensure quality, reliability, and regulatory requirements are fulfilled.

- Provide departmental representation in new project design teams providing leadership in advanced quality planning.

- Lead quality metric team meetings for assigned production lines; provide related documentation and coordinate continuous improvement programs.

- Develop and control implementation of SPC techniques to assure ongoing process performance including analysis of ongoing process capabilities and make proposals for process improvements.

- Provide support and advise staff.

- Analyze and investigate the root cause of external and internal non-conforming product, system deficiencies. Initiate and coordinate corrective and preventative actions and verification of effectiveness such as actions for customer complaints, internal audits, and internal and external supplier non-conformances.

- Plan activities, create and publish reports for overall defect and cost reduction programs. Monitor their effectiveness and implementation.

- Develop and implement in the training programs for quality personnel.

- Facilitate or maintain departmental representation in OTTO’s various inter-departmental programs; including CCB, and Internal Auditing.

- Create Test Plans.

- Assist OTTO’s Engineering Teams and Test Lab in the execution of test plans and procedures for product verification and validation and reliability testing.

- Provide support to OTTO’s current vendor base and development program.

- Assist in the annual departmental budget plan.

- Develop policies & procedures to continuously improve OTTO’s Quality Systems.

- Participate in the maintenance of OTTO’s ISO 9000 and AS9100 Registration, and other needed Regulatory Certifications.

- Participate in the quality discussions with OTTO customers in quality issues and on-site audits.

- Participate in the Material Review Board (MRB) including developing and processing Discrepant Material Reports (DMRs) and performing part analysis as directed by MRB members.

- Assist with other related duties as required or assigned.