Senior Quality Engineer

About the Role

As an experienced Senior Quality Engineer, you will help support the production of a high-quality luxury recreational vehicle. You will develop and maintain quality standards, lead investigations, drive continuous improvement, and manage supplier quality.

The daily team briefing begins promptly at 8:00 am, and you are expected to be present and ready to work at that time.

Responsibilities

• Development of manufacturing requirements, quality standards and product quality plans to assure products will meet expectations of our target customers
• Identification of critical requirements to assure proper supplier and production focus on features and necessities
• Support development of manufacturing equipment, controls and test plans to address risks identified in FMEA
• Support process capability analyses to investigate the ability of suppliers and production processes to meet defined specifications and quality standards
• Manage and facilitate the root cause & corrective actions system through tracking and validation of issues and support in root cause analysis through facilitating brainstorming, use of lean methodologies, hypothesis testing, design of experiments, etc
• Communicating well with internal and external teams, traveling to suppliers in different regions, and on-the-spot critical decision making
• Lead the MRB process to ensure parts are dispositioned in a timely and efficient manner to minimize inventory and production impact.
• Assist with implementation and execution of change control.
• Support line side with sorting / rework instruction development and execution, training operators or technician to carry those instructions in a proper manner
• Engage supply chain, engineering and design team members for driving resolution to quality issues related to suppliers
• This can require travel up to 20% of the time

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Electric, Mechanical, Materials, Industrial Engineering, or evidence of exceptional experience in related fields or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience with broad technical background and the ability to work with engineering, manufacturing, service and suppliers across a wide variety of issues
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to establish effective working relationships within Lightship and outside
• Excellent oral, written and presentation communication skills
• PPAP/APQP processes, an advanced working knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC), Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and Lean Manufacturing, and how to apply these skills to improve quality, capacity, and reduce cost
• Able to work under pressure while managing competing demands and tight deadlines
• Well organized with meticulous attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience creating technical specifications for manufacturing equipment, and introducing new products and new processes from a prototype environment to a production environment
• Specific training and demonstrated success in applying design for quality and problem-solving methodologies, FMEA, process capability analysis, hypothesis testing, DoE, SPC, etc
• Previous experience with CMM and/or scanning equipment
• Excellent team building skills in dealing with suppliers, peers and other functional areas

Equity

• Lightship compensation consists of the yearly salary above plus equity, which gives you a stake in the company.