Product Quality Engineer, Watch
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In the position, you will be a key role to support ongoing quality improvement. You will partner with the suppliers to ensure high quality of the product. You will be responsible for developing and implementing standards for all aspects of product quality during development & Mass Production.
- Focus on a few specific products made by Apple’s manufacturing partners.
- The person will need to develop a close working relationship with our manufacturing partners.
- Interface and coordinate work activities between Quality and other team members.
- Uses production and field data to monitor, control and improve product quality to improve the yield and reduce the field return rate.
- Execute the Product Quality plans for new products at the manufacturing partners and manage the product quality at the sites.
- Perform Audits at the manufacturing partners to ensure compliance.
- Ensure lessons learned from prior projects are used to improve the quality management process, and lead to improved product quality and reliability.
- Be responsible for implementing quality systems and following through on improvements and corrective actions.
- BS or equivalent experience in Electronic or Electro-Mechanical Engineering, master degree or MBA is plus.
- Demonstrated technical skills including experience and understanding of Assembly, Test, Pack-out, processes.
- In depth knowledge in quality methodologies with command of tools including statistical analysis, DOE, FMEA etc.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Experience of working in consumer goods industry where cosmetic quality is as critical as functionality.
- Experience of managing manufacturing process of manual assembly, semi-auto and auto assembly.
- Knowledge of shop floor control is a plus.
- Experience in massive data analysis, coding and machine learning would be a plus.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to concisely understand and communicate issues and manage a team to solution are required.
- Highly motivated and ability to drive closure of issues across cultures.
- Ability to multi-task, balancing daily activities with project related activities.
- Person with high passion and energy.