Development Quality Engineer

Job DetailsJob Location: Saint Paul, MN 55127Salary Range: $80,000.00 - $120,000.00 Salary/yearJob Shift: DaysJob Category: EngineeringSummary:             Primary duties are to provide quality engineering support of the Development/NPI team at Innovize. This includes the support and documentation of validation activities, ensuring compliance to industry and regulatory standards, development and qualification of measurement methods, and supporting the implementation and qualification of new product lines. The engineer should be comfortable working within a team, have a strong attention to detail, and be able to accommodate multiple projects simultaneously.

Duties/Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Lead root cause analysis of manufacturing process issues encountered during the development cycle
Facilitating the creation of process failure mode and effects analysis
Authoring:

Process flow charts
Master validation plans
Process qualification protocols and reports
Test plans
Process failure modes and effects analyses
Sampling strategies
Test method validation protocols and reports
Work instructions
Control plans

Assist inspection associates in the creation of receiving inspection instructions.
Represent quality team in project meetings and completing assigned tasks on time.
Capability analysis of process, test, and qualification data.

Competencies/Talents/Personal Attributes:

Communicates effectively
Ability to present information to all levels within the organization
Strong math skills with ability to understand descriptive and inferential statistics.
Ability to read blueprints, recognize UL specifications and understand geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
Demonstrates a basic understanding of ISO 13485 and GMP requirements.
Ability to understand material characteristics, tooling specifications, equipment, and how materials, tooling, and process settings interact to affect the overall tolerance capability of various product designs.
Ability to balance the requirement for meeting customer expectations and FDA regulations with company profitability in supporting the Quality Technician in developing estimates for work and inspection instructions.
Excellent attention to detail.
Basic understanding and application of SixSigma (DMAIC) manufacturing concepts and Lean concepts.
Ability to determine appropriate inspection tools to be used i.e. fixtures, templates, coordinate measuring machine, and go-no go gauges, etc.
Ability to create and sustain effective relationships both internally and externally.

Qualifications
Four-year Bachelor of Science/Engineering degree

Alternatively, a demonstrable 10-years of progressively responsible work experience in a technical manufacturing Quality role supporting Quality Engineering
Or a two-year technical degree and demonstrable 6-years of progressively responsible work experience in a technical manufacturing Quality role supporting Quality Engineering

2 years of medical manufacturing experience (may include internship experience)
Experience in an automated manufacturing and testing environment. Rotary converting a plus.
Proficient PC skills in MiniTab and Microsoft Office.
CAD modelling experience preferrable.
Able to utilize GD&T software packages highly desirable.
Engineering experience in medical device contract manufacturing.