Advanced Quality Planning Engineer

GENERAL - Proactively promotes and develops preventive quality methods in the plant. Ensures that AQP-principles are applied on new products as well as on products produced. Co-operates closely with the plant and main department management and with project managers introducing new products.

• Is responsible for Advanced Quality Planning within the integrated Quality Management System according to ISO 9001:2015 and relevant internal standards. Drives the Quality Planning on new products triggered by the related processes phase-in, change management, feasibility study or new product introduction and APQP / design Review system, to ensure smooth transfer of products/processes from prototype to mass production.
• Drive Supplier Quality Management activities, to ensure suppliers are qualified, monitored, measured, analyzed, evaluated as per QMS requirements and in compliance with the Supplier Management System. That may include audits and evaluations of data on Supplier Performance Ratings.
• Executes Quality engineering-based methods on measurements, SPC, quality control plans and preventive QM & QA methods. Ensures adequate metrological and failure analysis capabilities are available to support all qualification, failure analysis, and problem-solving activities. Ensure Inspection, Measurement and Test Equipment's (IMTE) system are compliant with defined quality management system, especially on measurement capability according to required customer specifications and participation in round-robin-tests. Develops SPC-based control loops with Production and Quality Assurance, including the type and design of SPC charts, limits for at least CTQ-parameters and monitoring based on appropriate statistical reliability and rules.
• Handling of customer inquiries on quality engineering matters (feasibility study, IMTE / Quality Control Plan / OQA etc.). Applies FMEAs.
• Supports digitalization projects, professional handling of data, including SAP QM (Key User) and data analytics (data mining) as well as data and statistic-based analysis support.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Physics, Process Technology, or comparable with focus on Quality Assurance and Metrology.

• Minimum 3 years of experience related to Metrology, QM & QA, Quality Planning or Production.

• Metrology, QM-tools, practical knowledge of quality assurance methods (Gage R&R, MSA, SPC, etc.; ASQ CQE, ASQ CMQ or Six Sigma Black Belt Certification and Six Sigma competencies welcomed), on Minitab and other mathematical/statistical analysis tools. Basic knowledge of project management. SAP QM knowledge. Proficient in MS Office tools. VBA, Python, other scripting languages (is a plus).
• Experience with interferometry. ZYGO interferometers and Mx software preferred.
• Experience with autocollimators, refractometers, goniometers, digital and analog microscopes, CMMs, optical comparators, and other various inspection and metrology equipment.

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