Supplier Quality Engineer -Supply Base Development

Company: DEKA Research & Development
Location: Manchester
Posted on: February 19, 2021

Job Description:

Behind DEKA's brick walls sits a team of professionals who strive to make a difference every day through thoughtful engineering, design, and manufacturing. New ideas are always welcome and explored to make the Manchester Millyard a place to create some of the most innovative and life-changing products of our time. Our employees enjoy the benefits of living and working an hour from the beach, Boston, and the mountains, the historic Amoskeag Millyard once housed the largest textile mills in the world. It is now home to DEKA Research and Development, where we are taking same innovation and cutting-edge technology into the modern age.

DEKA develops its talented employees through hands on learning and encourages future engineers through FIRST Robotics. We are proud of this aspect of our culture and are always looking to grow our family at DEKA.

The Supply Base Development Engineer will play an important role in helping to assure the smooth and successful transition of DEKA's amazing products into volume manufacturing. You will be an integral part of the design process, providing valuable input to the design team on inspection methods and metrology technology. You will also manage the suppliers' APQP, and measurement system design, analysis and build processes to help assure that the supplier supplies all parts meeting DEKA requirements.

How you will make an impact:

• Provide appropriate design review and input on applicable inspection and measurement methods to the DEKA product development team.
  • Provide leadership at suppliers during APQP and measurement system development and qualification activities to resolve all issues and assure successful product launch.
    • Function as technical liaison with the supplier on all quality planning, inspection and problem-solving activities.
      • Help drive Design Transfer activities as project moves from development to volume production.
        • Work with Supply Chain managers to identify new suppliers and to evaluate supplier's quality and quality system implementation.
          • Take the lead driving all appropriate APQP activities (process flow document, PFMEA, Control Plan, and Risk Assesments, etc) in a timely manner.
            • Support the supplier identification and evaluation process with development of templates for definition of measurement and inspection details needed with quotes.
              • Good understanding of statistics especially as related to SPC, Cpk's, ANOVA's and process capability and development.
                To be successful in this role, you will need the following skills and experience:
                
                
                • Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Manufacturing preferred).
                  • Five (5) years' experience in an NPI and/or supplier quality engineering role.
                    • Solid understanding of APQP or equivalent quality processes and their implementation at suppliers.
                      • Familiarity with medical product development and ISO / FDA compliance requirements a plus.
                        • Solid team member who can thrive in a fast paced, slightly ambiguous environment.
                          • Solid technical background in physics and engineering disciplines.
                            • Experience working with Asian suppliers a plus.
                              • Willing to travel up to 30%.
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