Quality Engineer

The Quality Engineer achieves and maintains quality standards in an efficient and effective manner to provide quality products to customers by engaging, coaching, and mentoring workforce to develop understanding of, accountability for, and pride in meeting quality standards.

Vanguard EMS, Inc. is in the service business. Even with Vanguard’s state of the art technology, vast manufacturing capability, and leading-edge information tools, we wake up every day thinking about how best to serve our customers, suppliers, and the communities in which we live.

What you’ll do:

• Monitor and continually improve the Quality Management System by understanding and implementing Quality and/or Regulatory requirements where needed.
• Develop and implement tools and systems to monitor performance and drive needed actions.
• Work with program teams to evaluate requirements and set-up process controls to meet requirements.
• Evaluate and document risks associated with processes and product and take actions to mitigate and monitor risks, including PFMEA, Preventive Actions, etc.
• Work with Purchasing to evaluate, select and review supplier performance.
• Evaluate materials for use as needed to ensure they meet customer, industry and regulatory expectations.
• Work with suppliers to resolve non-conforming materials issues through Vanguard’s NCMR process.
• Investigate, problem solve to root cause and resolve quality issues on Production, Supplier and Customer related issues using established Vanguard processes. Review Corrective Action Effectiveness.
• Participate in Vanguard’s internal audit process, customer audits and regulatory audits to ensure that Vanguard is meeting or exceeding the customers’ and regulatory requirements.
• Enhance the effectiveness of Vanguard’s Corrective and Preventive Action process by reviewing CARs at all critical phases in CAPA process.
• Drive a high performing organization by providing effective programs for clear communication between all employees, departments and management.
• Lead/participate in team projects from development through completion to continually improve processes.

Requirements

What you’ll need:

• Advanced proficiency in computer systems, including MS software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Proven ability to initiate process improvements, apply Lean concepts and problem-solving techniques.
• Operational and technical skills, initiative and influence, and business perspective.
• Business process management, advanced problem-solving, communication, and coordination skills.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external vendors and customers.

Education and/or Experience

• Engineering or equivalent degree
• Experience in an ISO certified, Quality-controlled organization
• Experience in Medical Device and/or Aerospace & Defense industry

While performing the duties of this position, the employee regularly uses hands and arms to handle, feel, and reach for objects, tools, or controls. The role requires the ability to stoop, kneel, or crouch, as well as to speak and hear. The employee routinely uses computer and telephone equipment. Specific vision requirements include close and distance vision.

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described above are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

This Job Posting is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of all the responsibilities associated with this position. Management reserves the right to modify and assign other duties as necessary

Benefits

Employees enjoy a highly competitive benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision
• 401K (with employer match)
• Up to 120 hours earned paid time off in the first year of employment
• Paid holidays