Quality Engineer

We are seeking a detail-oriented and driven Quality Engineer I to join our team.

In this role, you will support quality assurance processes, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and ensure our products meet and exceed customer expectations.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in quality engineering.

Come join our growing team!

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

The Quality Engineer I :

• Performs moderately complex tasks to develop, apply, and maintain quality requirements for processing components and other materials into finished goods and products.
• Plans the quality measurements and controls on materials, processes, and product to provide adequate control of quality at minimum quality related costs.
• Analyzes quality information and feeds back analyses and recommendations for adjustment to product design, manufacturing process and equipment, and the quality system.
• Applies statistical methods to diagnose and correct improper quality practices, workmanship and process problems.
• On behalf of the Quality Manager, carries out essential steps in maintaining the company quality system.

Quality Planning - 20%

This planning includes the relative importance of quality characteristics and required quality levels; points in the flow for quality measurements to be made; methods and procedures for quality measurements by operators, inspectors, testers, and auditors; applicable Statistical Quality Control techniques; Quality Information feedback; required quality measurement and control equipment; and other pertinent quality procedures.

Promotes Continuous Improvement and Provides Customer Service - 10%

Identifies root causes, recommends and implements improvements and corrective / preventive actions.

Participates with others in instigating corrective action.

Follows-up and reports on corrective action progress to Quality Management.

Coordinates government and customer source inspections and Quality system surveys.

Provides Support to Quality Control, Sales, Engineering, and Operations - 30%

Nonconforming Material Control - 40%

Maintains segregation of nonconforming material.

Coordinates with Customers, Program Management and Sales to ensure that all products are acceptable before shipment.

Education & Experience

Skills

Working Conditions

Physical Requirements

Particularly for sustained periods of time.

25% of the time.

Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.

Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other employees accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.

Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position.

This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.

No more than 10 to 15 pounds.

Safety Requirements

All employees are required to follow the site EHS procedures and Coherent A&D EHS standards.

Quality and Environmental Responsibilities

Depending on location, this position may be responsible for the execution and maintenance of the ISO 9000, 9001, 14001 and / or other applicable standards that may apply to the relevant roles and responsibilities within the Quality Management System and Environmental Management System.

Culture Commitment

Ensure adherence to company's values (ICARE) in all aspects of your position at Coherent A&D :

Integrity - Create an Environment of Trust

Collaboration - Innovate Through the Sharing of Ideas

Accountability - Own the Process and the Outcome

Respect - Recognize the Value in Everyone

Enthusiasm - Find a Sense of Purpose in Work

Coherent A&D is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

This role involves access to technology, materials, software, or hardware subject to U.S.

export control laws.

Therefore, to be considered, candidates must be classified as a "U.S.

Person" under applicable regulations or be eligible for authorization under a U.S.

government export license.Coherent is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials and networking components.

We are a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets.

Coherent provides a comprehensive career development platform within an environment that challenges employees to perform at their best, while rewarding excellence and hard-work through a competitive compensation program.

It's an exciting opportunity to work for a company that offers stability, longevity and growth.

Come Join Us!

Note to recruiters and employment agencies : We will not pay for unsolicited resumes from recruiters and employment agencies unless we have a signed agreement and have required assistance, in writing, for a specific opening.The Quality Engineer I is a professional who, in support of, and under limited supervision of the Quality Manager, applies the principles of product and service quality evaluation and control.

This includes the application of Statistical Quality Control techniques, Design of Experiments, Metrology, Inspection, Test, and Audit of Quality Systems for deficiency identification and correction.