Quality Engineering Manager

Position Summary:

Energetiq is seeking a Quality Engineering Manager to join a dynamic and growing technology company. This position will play an integral role in monitoring and improving the quality of Energetiq's products and production operations. This is a hands-on management role responsible for guiding the quality team to resolve issues in manufacturing as well as ensuring all products meet our high-quality standards. This role requires a detail-oriented, technical mind, with a passion for quality and problem solving. This position reports to the Director of Quality and Manufacturing Engineering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Guide Energetiq's Quality Engineering team, providing direction and support on failure investigation, root cause identification, FAI, incoming inspection, and continuous improvement activities.
• Interface with customers to understand their quality needs, then propose and drive the team to execute projects to address those needs.
• Create, analyze, present, and address KPIs for CAPAs, SCARs, NCMRs, warranty failures, and escapes.
• Investigate and identify failure root cause and work with local and global Manufacturing and Product Engineering teams to drive a response.
• Collaborate with the R&D team to ensure new product designs meet customer requirements and Energetiq's quality standards.
• Interface with suppliers to ensure continued quality or provide guidance when quality standards are not met.
• Manage outside consultants and sub-contractors where technical expertise does not exist in-house.
• Lead and facilitate Quality Improvement and Kaizen events

Minimum Requirements and Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Electrical, Quality, Industrial engineering, or other relevant discipline.
• 8+ years of experience, with at least 3 years of experience in engineering management.
• Ability and desire to actively engage with project work where required to meet goals.
• Ability to lead, direct, develop, and discipline a team to achieve required goals.
• Working knowledge of mechanical and electrical engineering to interact with subject matter experts on a complex electro-mechanical product.
• Experience with failure investigation, CAPA, 8D, and reliability studies.
• Advanced data analysis skills to identify trends in production or product quality issues.
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders to provide and receive constructive criticism about product quality issues.
• Approximately 20% global travel.
• Valid passport and driver's license.
• Must occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds, bend, squat, and/or work under and behind furniture and other obstacles. Occasional work in "clean room" environments, while wearing PPE, may be required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master of Science in Mechanical, Electrical, Quality, Industrial engineering, or other relevant discipline.
• Experience in the Semiconductor industry.
• Experience with any/all: diode lasers, optics, opto-mechanical systems, optical metrology, Peltier modules, heat transfer, imaging systems, power electronics.
• Advanced understanding of the design and/or root cause identification of electro-mechanical systems.
• Experience with programming languages for data collection and analysis.