Quality Engineer, GA

About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.

Job Overview

We are looking for a Quality Engineer with broad responsibilities, working cross-functionally with Engineering, Suppliers, Purchasing, and Manufacturing teams to define and implement quality engineering processes and drive continuous improvement activities throughout the organization. The Quality Engineer will play a key role in implementing and maintaining Harbinger’s quality management system (QMS) and will establish and improve the quality of our operational processes and outputs. 

The Quality Engineer's responsibilities include defining quality standards, inspecting materials, equipment, processes, and products, developing quality control systems, leading APQP and determining corrective actions. A successful Quality Engineer should have excellent troubleshooting skills and be able to ensure that processes and products consistently meet established quality standards. 

What You’ll Do:

• Developing and implementing quality standards, quality control systems, and manufacturing quality processes
• Inspecting and testing materials, equipment, processes, and products to ensure quality specifications are met
• Collaborating with production leadership to develop and implement controls and improvements 
• Make technical and statistical investigations on quality problems, methods, and equipment, and make recommendations
• Developing corrective actions, solutions, and improvements for supplier, production, and product issues
• Participate in design reviews with the design engineering and manufacturing team to mitigate risk for manufacturing and assembly
• Develop forms and instructions to be used for collecting, analyzing and reporting quality data on the manufacturing line 
• Lead and teach the multidisciplinary effort to perform Root Cause analysis on the internal and external product with timely responses and ensure all corrective actions are validated to prevent the recurrence of non-conformances
• Lead MRB meetings and act as a quality representative for the engineering change control board
• Lead implementation of quality processes and KPI’s with internal manufacturing team, contract manufacturers and suppliers

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing) or similar technical degree required
• Three to eight years of experience in work related to manufacturing quality or supplier quality
• engineering in an automotive or aerospace industry or equivalent manufacturing environment
• ASQ Certifications as Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor, Certified Quality Manager, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher preferred
• Knowledge of ISO-9001:2018 or IATF 16949 standard strongly desired
• Understanding of basic quality core tools such as Quality Management Systems, Supplier and Internal Audits, APQP, SPC, PPAP, FMEA, and MSA 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, verbal, writing and interpersonal skills are required
• ASQ Certifications as Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor, Certified Quality Manager, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher preferred
• Excellent project management skills with ability to manage multiple projects is required
• Must be able to travel up to 25%

Key Benefits & Perks:

• Comprehensive Health, Dental & Vision (HDV) - 100% employee covered
• Early-stage Stock Options
• Robust Retirement Savings (401k, HSA, FSA)
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Parental Leave
• Annual Vacation Bonus
• Wellness & Fertility Benefits
• Cell Phone Stipend
• Complimentary Meals & Stocked Kitchens

California Pay Range

$110—$170 USD

Equal Opportunity

Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Harbinger is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at [email protected].

Candidate Data Privacy

Harbinger may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Harbinger may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

Harbinger may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our HR, legal, and finance teams, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Harbinger affiliates; and (iii) Harbinger’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.

Harbinger may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services. Any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted in response to our job posting shall be considered the property of Harbinger and are not subject to payment of referral or placement fees if any such candidate is later hired by Harbinger unless you have a signed written agreement in place with us which covers the applicable job posting.