Job Description Summary

Quality Engineer will be focused on internal/external continuous quality improvement efforts to reduce warranty, scrap, rework, and downtime. The individual will also work with the Supply Management Team to actively engage suppliers on process improvements and corrective actions. This position implements and supports actions that bring about improvements which may include, but are not limited to safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and productivity.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible 

 

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us. 

Key Responsibilities

• Support supplier capability, supplier readiness, and the ongoing support of supplier improvements through consistent coaching to Parata Systems Standards.

• Support assembly operations to maintain production when quality issues arise.

• Manage the Nonconforming Material Process for manufactured product and supplied components.

• Maintain Nonconforming Material Process Database and issue and follow-up on internal/external corrective actions.

• Run weekly Reject / Open Corrective Action Reports.

• Run monthly performance data metrics (DPU/DPMO/COPQ).

• Update Monthly Quality Scorecard with performance metrics results.

• Partner with Operations and Manufacturing Engineering to investigate root causes and implement corrective actions for internal defects and customer complaints.

• Review and report in-process data from manufacturing processes and facilitate corrective and preventive actions as appropriate using appropriate quality tools for root cause analysis.

• Conduct structured team-based problem-solving to manage problem containment at internal manufacturing locations to prevent product escapes; implement effective corrective actions.

• Establish programs to evaluate and audit the precision and accuracy of test and measurement equipment used in product reliability testing and used to support manufacturing.

• Execute Gage R&R and process capability (CPk) studies as necessary for process control.

• Support continuous improvement and cost reduction projects. 

• Support and lead Quality continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field

​Experience

• 5+ years of relevant work experience combined with Process Engineering, Quality Engineering and Lean Manufacturing disciplines 

• Strong understanding of GD&T, Process Capability (Cpk), Statistical Process Control (SPC) and apply these principles to receiving incoming Inspections (external suppliers), internal (suppliers) manufacturing operations

• Experience with GR&R studies and metrology equipment, such as working knowledge of CMM, calipers, height gages, dial indicators, and micrometers

• Experience training operators on new quality procedures

• Supplier management background to include supplier audits, part approval, supplier score cards, corrective actions, MRB-RTV disposition, and Field Failure Analysis follow up with suppliers

• Experience implementing Lean disciplines and 5-S to internal processes, particularly in inventory management and handling of expensive components into storage or kitting to production line

Nice to have

• Certified Green Belt Six Sigma

• Certified QA Auditor

• Certified Quality Engineer

• GD&T Training

• AQL RII Sampling plan

• Project Management

• APQP

• PPAP

• Problem Solving – 8D

• ISO-9001 QMS understanding

Work environment and physical demands

The characteristics described below are representative of those encountered while performing the essential functions of this position. When properly requested and when feasible (without undue hardship to the com