Senior Quality Engineer - Reliability

Company: Panduit: Women's, Military, & Diversity
Location: Tinley Park
Posted on: August 3, 2022

Job Description:

At Panduit, Our People Make the Difference. Their unique insights and perspectives fuel our innovation and help our customers discover more and better ways to connect with and for the people they serve. We are looking for people who are curious, insightful, collaborative, and committed to building a sustainable and connected world. What We Can Offer YouOur Total Rewards Program provides competitive health and financial benefits as well as continuous opportunities to learn, grow, and develop. We are committed to offering our employees flexible work schedules and work from home opportunities to help you thrive. Additionally, we encourage a spirit of continuous learning and promote well-rounded development as part of our commitment to help you realize your professional goals. Panduit recognizes that our employees are key to our success, and we strive to cultivate a diverse and inclusive work environment that strengthens our Company and enables every employee to reach their full potential.

• State of the art laboratories and rapid modeling tool room to fuel creativity
• Growth & development opportunities for promotion and stretch assignments
• Deeper technical development, opportunities for special projects
• Opportunity to perform testing on all Panduit products in state-of-the-art labsWhat We Are Looking ForThe Senior Reliability Quality Engineer will maximize customer experience and assure customer loyalty by driving integration of quality principles and techniques into all phases of the product lifecycle through advanced quality planning for optimized processes and systems, collection and analysis of data, structured problem solving, lean techniques, complaint resolution, quality training, coaching and conducting of audits. They will drive continual improvement to reduce waste in processes, solutions, and systems. Under general direction, this role will apply defined procedures and criteria in carrying out quality related engineering or operations projects, tasks, and deliverables. The right candidate will be capable of leading/managing small to medium projects in scope from start to finish in accordance with the company's policies, including developing, executing, and reporting results on test plans to specifications and technical standards to assure the resulting offering meets requirements and are fit for the intended use cases.What You Will Do
  • Apply advanced quality planning tools such as FMEA, boundary diagrams, interface analysis, process capability analysis, control plans (including optimized statistical sampling plans), mistake proofing, design for X (DFx e.g. manufacturability, assembly, test, servicing), product lifecycle planning, measurement system analysis, supplier qualification and PPAPs (Production Part Approval Process), where required to assure requirements are met or exceeded.
  • Incorporate reliability principles into specifications, test plans, and other relevant documents.
  • Consider the human factor components and their impact on quality initiatives e.g. the change acceleration process (CAP) ergonomics, appropriate corrective and preventive actions for inadvertent human errors, etc.
    • Develop, operate and maintain quality control systems (inspection and test methods) which assure approved quality levels and standards to meet or exceed customers' requirements.
    • Lead and/or participate in quality audits (internal and external) of processes and solutions
    • Perform supplier quality management activities including supplier performance assessment, dispositioning purchased product and supplier certification.
    • Apply statistical methods for product & process control.
    • Resolve quality problems (e.g. customer complaints, supplier problems, internal failures) and reduce quality costs using structured problem solving with closed loop corrective and preventive actions.
    • Apply metrology and statistical measurement to problem analysis and proposes metrology and statistical methods improve quality
    • Analyze data relevant to quality inspections and initiatives and generates improvement conclusions and reports
    • Drive use of analysis, testing, and performance evaluation to improve product and process reliability and system effectiveness. This includes planning, analysis (allocation, prediction, substances, design, design margin, and derating), FMEA (design and process), testing, field data collection and analysis, and system effectiveness.
    • Work with design and manufacturing (including buyouts, as applicable) on reliability improvement projects in support of complaint reduction and yield improvement.What You Will Bring
      • Required Degree: Bachelor's degree in Engineering
      • Years of Experience: 5-7 years
      • Reliability testing. Use of test chambers. Thermal, Vibration, Drop, Step Stress, Accelerated Life Test, etc. (required)
      • Statistical analysis: fitting distributions, DOE, ANOVA, SPC. Experience in manufacturing or design environment. (preferred)
      • Required Certifications and/or Licenses: ASQ CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) required
      • ASQ CRE or technical equivalent within 18 months of hiringWe thank all those interested in joining the Panduit team; however only those that complete the online application and meet the minimum job qualifications will be considered for this role. Panduit is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Work Shift

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