Canon U.S.A., Inc : Quality Engineer III

Position Overview

Plans and coordinates technical activities affecting product quality and maintenance of quality standards for processing materials into partially finished or finished material or product.

Responsibilities

• Leads and conducts investigations of complaints and/or nonconformities in quality to determine the root cause of the issue. Develops, implements and verifies the effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions.
• Collaborates with cross functional team (e.g., manufacturing, supplier engineering, etc.) to facilitate and support corrective action and preventive action plans and improvement activities.
• Evaluates product to ensure compliance to specifications and regulations and revises or modifies specifications as needed to improve efficiency via the appropriate change control and design channels.
• Develops systems, methods, and procedures to implement and maintain in-process and finished product quality. Analyzes data collected to verify product and process quality.
• Coordinates activities with necessary departments concerning problem resolution and evaluation/testing of new products or equipment for determination of operating standards.
• Establishes change and/or process control activities including tests and inspections that are performed within the manufacturing process. Monitors controls for effectiveness and reports findings to team as needed.
• Understands and establishes Quality Management System requirements, procedures, evaluations, reporting, data and objectives.
• Identifies critical to quality process steps and Key Performance Indicators.
• Troubleshoots more complex quality issues. Investigates issues and develops countermeasures to prevent future occurrence.
• Develops process improvement initiatives for failure mode, effect analysis, process capability and root cause analysis.
• Evaluates quality test results for accuracy. Utilizes statistical analysis to ensure process is capable.
• Trains less experienced Engineers on department processes or systems.
• Support manufacturing operations in optimizing process quality improvements, root cause investigations and quality system development.
• Support the Quality Engineering members between the multiple manufacturing operations.
• Responsible to coordinate the start-up and transfers approvals for new products.
• May be assigned additional duties and/or special projects.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Industrial or Systems Engineering and 5-8 years’ experience in a quality environment or related field.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Knowledge of engineering and process improvement principals (ie- Failure Mode, Effect Analysis, Process Capability & Root Cause Analysis).
• Requires analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• May have to work overtime and may be assigned to other shifts based on company needs.

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