Quality & Reliability Engineer Job Description
Quality & reliability engineer
provides quality guidance on necessary change management activities that occur within consumables manufacturing while ensuring consistency with business objectives and FDA, ISO and other regulatory requirements.
Quality & Reliability Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Partner with Product Development, Manufacturing Engineers and Field Engineers to identify, test, and debug SSN products
Determines quality improvement parameters through statistical methods relevant to repair or manufacturing processes
Develops experiments by leveraging FMEA’s to identify factors, regression analysis, fractional and full factional designs
Assist in development and facilitation of system level design FMEA
Collaborate with manufacturing, quality, and GSC (Global Supply Chain) group leaders, team leaders, and/or team members to ensure proper containment, CARE, and certification of supplier components
Review supplier manufacturing processes and quality systems, conduct Face to Face Supplier Audits as required
Performing Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to evaluate product (mechanical and thermal) functional performance address overstress and fatigue-related durability problems
Development of predictive modeling methods and tools for reliability risk assessment and design of semiconductor packages and systems
Determination of reliability requirements of components and systems to achieve company, customer and any governmental agency reliability objectives
Development of new acceleration models and tools to assure the early identification of potential problems with new products, packaging, processes, and product reliability
Quality & Reliability Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Quality & Reliability Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CQE, ISO, ASQ, CQA, ISO9001, 9001, CRE, ISO14001, TS16949, CSQE
Education for Quality & Reliability Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the quality & reliability engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Science, Electrical Engineering, Technical, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics, Manufacturing, Electronics Engineering
Skills for Quality & Reliability Engineer
Desired skills for quality & reliability engineer include:
Own discipline and broadens capabilities
Disciplines within the function
ISO/FDA/MDD and other Product Development related regulatory requirements
Change management
Equipment run off and validation
Error proofing
FMEA
Manufacturing
Manufacturing quality and reliability methods
Operator decision making reduction
Desired experience for quality & reliability engineer includes:
Providing consultation to design engineers on selection, application and test of electronic components and systems
Providing consultation to customers/client as needed
Demonstrated attention to details and quality of the work
Demonstrated persistence and commitment to task
Ability to clearly communicate achieved results and to influence wide range of audiences
Demonstrated leadership to assume the authority and advocate for new ideas
Quality & Reliability Engineer Examples
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Quality & Reliability Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a quality & reliability engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for quality & reliability engineer
- Establishes statistical confidence through extensive testing, detailed sampling strategies and reliability modeling to determining mean time before failure with high levels of confidence
- Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing data, and making recommendations
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge reviewing professional publications
- Ensure well developed and executed system-level reliability test plans are in place
- Responsible for the reliability for a transmission or driveline family
- Assist in identification of robustness of projects
- Assist in revisions to test schedules and reliability methods
- Provide training to staff on quality and reliability core competency
- Develop new tools, methodologies, and test procedures, to ensure improvements in product quality, reliability, and durability
- Test field failure part returns to confirm customer complaints
Qualifications for quality & reliability engineer
- Ability to understand the high level picture and apply systems thinking to generate solutions
- PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Aeronautics, Structural Engineering, Materials Science or Physics
- Research background (Papers and Thesis) in solid mechanics or computational methods and tools or mechanics of structures of materials and structures
- Knowledge of fracture mechanics, constitutive modeling of materials
- Ability for analytical problem solving
- Knowledge and experience with numerical modeling methods and automation tools
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Our company is looking to fill the role of quality & reliability engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for quality & reliability engineer
- Audit supplier process control plans and PFMEA to ensure product reliability
- Review field data to look for trends and issues
- Initiate field actions to correct deficiencies (working in conjunction with GM Supplier Quality and Product Development)
- Ensure regulatory compliance requirements are met (UL, RoHS/WEEE/REACH, Counterfeit, Conflict Minerals)
- Work with the modeling team to identify and help codify SOA
- Be responsible for the execution of new reliability process in the advanced stages of powertrain programs
- Partner with Powertrain Engineering to deliver systemic improvements
- Support the Feed-Forward and Lessons Learned process from Regulatory, Warranty, and other sources through updates to core documents such as Engineering Specifications, DFMEA's DVP&R's, and Design Best Practices
- Display effective communication skills to support meetings at all levels of the company
- Represent the "Voice of the Customer" to the Powertrain Engineering team
Qualifications for quality & reliability engineer
- 1-3 years of programming required (any language, Python preferred)
- Ability to work well in a team setting with people from a wide range of backgrounds
- Ability for cross-disciplinary work
- Creativity and innovation in solving technical problems as demonstrated by peer reviewed publications and patents
- Able to work with Engineering to resolve component qualification issues with documented test results
- You must possess a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering, or Mechanical and/or Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering or Polymer Science or a related discipline
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a quality & reliability engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for quality & reliability engineer
- Perform Safety Observation Tours with the onsite Enhanced Supplier Engagement Process (ESEP) provider
- Ensure safety concerns via the SOTs are identified and addressed appropriately
- Support the Business Plan Deployment (BPD) process for the ESEP suppliers (review on a regular basis, provide input on metrics measurement and BPD initiatives)
- Provide direction to union members performing Supplier Quality roles
- Respond and investigate line calls
- Problem solving coaching and teaching on Production Floor
- Collaborate with Engineering and Lead Design Related issues impacting customer quality or plants first time quality initiatives
- Review and approve the supplier’s quality plans on corrective actions associated with plant discrepancies (including pulls and warranty returns)
- Determine root cause of supplier quality problems and implement timely and effective quality resolutions
- Initiate containments of non-conforming material at the plant
Qualifications for quality & reliability engineer
- Experience with product development activities – Reliability plans, testing, FMECA, Characterization, DFSS, DOE, Sensitivity analysis
- Capable of presenting root causes and technical solutions to end customer
- College degree in engineering discipline, M.S
- Familiarity with reliability and quality analysis software tools such as Minitab, Weibull++, RGA
- 3-5 years of related experience working in a quality management system
- Knowledge of TQM, ASQ, and ISO
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Our growing company is looking for a quality & reliability engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for quality & reliability engineer
- Direct, track, and monitor the containment/inspection/rework for the Enhanced Supplier Engagement Process (ESEP) suppliers
- Issue, track, and close/monitor Fast Responses, PRR’s, and cost recoveries as required (includes scheduling suppliers in for Fast Response report outs)
- Respond to PRTS’s (Problem Resolution and Tracking System) issued to the plant related to supplier quality
- Notify suppliers of quality concerns
- Collaborate with GSC and suppliers to ensure timely arrival of certified material
- Work on supplier quality related continuous improvement initiatives (cost and first time quality)
- Subject Matter Expect for Built in Quality Product and Process Validation Element
- Performs FMECA and works with supplier and development engineers to enable reliability test plans
- Coordinate all aspects of MEMS qualification activities, including ESD test, TMCL, HAST, HTOL, mechanical shock and drop test, Analyze data and communicate results to project and management teams
- Implement Ongoing Reliability Test plans for MEMS products in production
Qualifications for quality & reliability engineer
- People and Project Leader
- Knowledge of basic electrical tools (volt meters, oscilloscopes, power suppliers)
- Must have a BS degree with 7+ of experience or MS degree with 5+ years of experience in Electrical engineering or physics is required
- Other useful skills include supply chain management, quality system deployment, and experience leading quality system audits
- PhD with 5+ years of experience would be desired
- Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering, or
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of quality & reliability engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for quality & reliability engineer
- Facilitation of Proactive Reliability Risk Assessment Process on software applications
- Facilitate software validation process
- Be the single point of contact and applications of, and revisions to, several different engineering specifications and multiple support documents related to software
- Identify reliability improvement software related initiatives
- Use the continuous improvement process to improve the quality, reliability and performance of new and existing products
- Act as electronic reliability engineering subject matter expert for new product development projects
- Work with Design Engineering management to identify and implement design processes to improve product reliability
- Define and support the maintenance and enhancement of necessary facilities, tools, and resources to perform electronic reliability engineering development and testing
- Define and establish the necessary facilities, resources, tools and methodologies for effective failure analysis of electronic product failures, and provide relevant failure analysis reports to internal and external customers, and summary analysis and recommendations internally
- Establish and maintain documentation systems for electrical engineering / reliability testing
Qualifications for quality & reliability engineer
- Previous industry experience with a focus on of the following
- Validation of stress content thru simulation or emulation during the pre-silicon timeframe
- Working with division content writers to ensure they are creating the right content for BI
- Validation that the BI content works on the product during the pre-silicon timeframe
- Conversion of the content into BI pattern format
- Support during the post-silicon debug of the product as a content expert