Assoc. Quality Engineer

About the Role

The Associate Quality Engineer provides process/quality engineering support to manufacturing and product development teams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products. This role is part of the Vascular division at our Temecula, CA location.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Learn to identify Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by dispositioning nonconforming material, assisting in identification of primary root causes, and understanding corrective and preventative actions.
• Assist in bounding product stops and documenting release criteria.
• Gain understanding of product quality plans, documents, and systems by reviewing product specifications, quality specifications, and working with quality systems.
• Learn risk analyses and FMEAs.
• Become familiar with Process Monitoring Systems, system applications, critical process steps, and methods used to reduce process variation.
• Understand product/process improvement efforts by analyzing current quality metric data and learning various analysis methods for sustaining product design and new product development.
• Learn about Quality Tools & Training Materials by gaining knowledge of prevalent tools and utilizing available training materials.
• Work is closely supervised, following specific, detailed instructions.
• Begin developing a network of internal resources to facilitate task completion.
• Complete daily work to meet established schedules, with guidance from a supervisor on task prioritization.
• May exercise authority within pre-established limits and approval; failure to achieve results can normally be overcome without serious effect on schedules and programs.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Basic technical knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Limited understanding of business unit/group function.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Learns to use professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve routine problems.
• Works on problems of limited scope.
• Minimal independent decision making.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree plus 0-2+ years of related work experience with a basic understanding of the specified functional area, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.