Job # EE26037
Job Title Quality Assurance Engineer
Office Location Houston, TX Preferred
Business Function /Department Energy and Infrastructure Solutions / Technical Services
Sales Territory, if applicable N/A
General Role Description
Monitor and assess the Company’s quality assurance program, ensuring supplier compliance with the system design and standards
Role Accountabilities
- Advise on product quality initiatives related to field failures
- Produce root cause analysis (RCA) for field failure events as required, including site investigation
- Distinguish between design issues, manufacturing defects, commissioning errors, and field/environmental conditions
- Maintain failure in time (FIT) reporting on company products
- Maintain and analyze field failure data, and report on trends in field failures in commissioning and production
- Recommend quality metrics to drive company products and supplier equipment improvements, preventive actions, and
business results, and implement as approved
- Direct and coordinate the overall quality specifications and standards for materials and finished products to meet client purchase order requirements
- Monitor and analyze non-conformance data; recommend, develop, and implement appropriate responses in collaboration
with procurement management
- Monitor supplier RCA's and corrective action requests (CAR), critically evaluate RCA quality, and escalate when evidence or corrective actions are insufficient
- Evaluate new equipment suppliers' manufacturing and quality processes, utilizing the Company’s supplier qualification in collaboration with procurement
- Evaluate repair and remediation activities and failures to improve quality and RCA production
General Employee Accountabilities
- Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager
- Give manager best advice
- Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified
- Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager
- Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment
- Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws
- Recommend viable improvements proactively
- Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- BS degree in electrical, mechanical, or industrial engineering; or related physical or applied science; or equivalent via education and/or work experience
- 4 years related work experience in manufacturing, quality control, quality assurance or design engineering with direct responsibility for field failure analysis, supplier quality, and technical root cause analysis (RCA)
- Demonstrated ability to produce technically defensible RCAs based on evidence and system-level analysis
- Demonstrated experience with data analytics tools (Excel, Power BI) and FIT / MTBF reporting
- Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
- Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
- Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
- Possession of a recognized quality certification such as CQE, ASQ, or Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- Proficiency in MS Office programs
- Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 50%, sometimes with limited notice
Preferred Qualifications
- Successful development of a manufacturing quality process or supply chain quality assurance process
- Power electronics experience: PV Inverter experience and MV Drives in engineering, manufacturing, field repair or quality
- MV Drive experience in engineering, manufacturing, field repair, or quality
- Electrical failure mode analysis (IGBTs, PCBs, capacitors, cooling systems)
- Systems-integration experience involving transformers, switchgear, protection relays, and SCADA
Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website: https://www.tmeic.com/. To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting. A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application. Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.
EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability Employer
Skills Required
- BS degree in electrical, mechanical or industrial engineering
- 4 years related work experience in manufacturing, quality control or assurance
- Ability to produce technically defensible RCAs based on evidence
- Experience with data analytics tools (Excel, Power BI)
- Possession of a recognized quality certification such as CQE, ASQ or Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- Proficiency in MS Office programs
- Availability to travel domestically and internationally, up to 50%
What We Do
TMEIC Corporation Americas designs, develops, and engineers advanced automation systems, large AC and DC motors, photovoltaic inverters, and variable frequency drives, specializing in industrial markets such as renewable energy, metals, ports, oil & gas, and mining.
