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Quality Assurance Engineer (ISO Compliance/Regulatory Affairs)

On-site (Saugerties, NY)

The Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for ensuring that the site’s product realization processes set and exceed the standard of world-class performance for quality, cost, and delivery, so that the company can, in turn, provide a world-class product to the semiconductor industry, each time, every time.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Document and maintain records as required by ISO standards
• Acts as Lead Internal Auditor for site Quality and Environmental Systems
• Evaluates and determines reduced or increased inspection and/or audit plans based on risk assessment of internal performance, part/process criticality, and the effectiveness of existing supplier and internal Edwards controls.
• Address customer quality issues in a timely manner to ensure customer satisfaction
• Assists in New Product Development activities to identify risk mitigation, capability assessment, and process control activities that will prevent quality issues
• Participates in product quality planning and control process based on customer specifications and requirements to ensure the voice of the customer in quality shapes the process
• Establishes and enforces a proactive communication mechanism that will provide cross-functional process owners with a consistent, timely assessment of their quality performance and will invite internal feedback that may reduce costs and improve quality.
• Assist the process owners to identify, develop and improve product quality processes based on ISO standards that meet the needs and expectations of the customer
• Understands, audits, and continuously improves internal processes and process validations to assure internal product-realization processes are adequate to meet Edward’s quality requirements and specifications and produce quality components on time, every time.
• Maintains punctual, regular, and predictable attendance; works collaboratively in a team environment with a spirit of cooperation.
• Maintains compliance to ISO 9001 (Quality Management System) and ISO 14001 (Environmental Management System) through the implementation, monitoring, and improvement of process documentation, nonconforming product, and internal auditing.
• Complies with Safety Rules, Regulations, and OSHA Requirements.
• Respectfully takes direction from Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs Manager and other duties as assigned.
• Conducts random in-process inspections of operations processes to determine process compliance and product adherence to documented requirements.
• Monitors and analyzes nonconformance reports and performance data (i.e. including but not limited to CAPAs, Quality Control Metrics, CI projects, OTD, etc) for correlations and trends that could identify high-risk, recurring, or systemic issues and proactively report these quality performance statistics to internal stakeholders, VP Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs and supply chain management.
• Partners with internal process owners, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and stakeholders to initiate and facilitate internal, customer, and supplier 8D Corrective and Preventive Actions that ensure robust root cause analysis, complete and thorough containment, comprehensive implementation of corrective actions, and objective verification of the effectiveness of corrective actions to permanently address the root cause.
• Assists in the training and guidance of internal stakeholders in identifying and developing problem-solving methodologies to resolve supplier, internal, and customer-identified quality issues.
• Informs site management team regarding customer feedback and expectations of product quality

Skills/Knowledge/Experience:

Ability to perform essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodation and without posing a direct threat to safety or health of employee or others. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties.

• 10% annual travel.
• Knowledge and recent experience in product inspection, process auditing, compiling/analyzing/reporting performance data, reading and understanding drawings/specifications/technical requirements, leading process improvement initiatives, and facilitating the completion/close out of 8D CAPAs.
• 5 years of experience using quality tools (i.e. documentation support, root cause analysis, 8D, process auditing, inspection, process definition, continuous improvement) in an ISO 9001:2015 environment.
• Must be authorized to work in U.S.A. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Quality Auditor (CQI) preferred, not required.
• Self-directed, experienced leader with excellent communication skills.

Education Level:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science/Technical Discipline preferred, not required

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts and outdoor weather conditions. The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• This position requires occasional domestic and international travel for 10% of the position; often overnight or multiple days.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties of this job. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. This position requires frequent computer use. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use stairways to climb to multiple floors within office building, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to use hands and fingers to type or dial, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and reach with hands and arms.

Edwards Company considers for employment and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws.

Edwards is a global leader of vacuum and abatement systems. We are proud to lead the industry, pushing the boundaries of science to deliver innovative products which are intrinsic to everyday life, working in partnership with our customers and continually setting new standards. With over 100 years of rich heritage, Edwards is the partner of choice for tens of thousands of customers in critical applications around the world. Vacuum is required in diverse sectors, from the generation of power to the production of steel, to the challenging environments of space simulation and high energy physics research.

At Edwards, we believe there is always a better way. Our employees are full of ideas. When looking to add a new team member, we are looking for someone that can appreciate what the Edwards Team has done and bring their new ideas and perspective to enhance where we can go. At Edwards you get to be part of something big; we work globally, but also get the opportunity make a difference locally in our own discipline. We work hard to attract, motivate, develop and retain the best talent from the diversity of people across the globe. Our vision to be First in Mind, First in Choice relies on this strategy. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

For more information about Edwards visit our website: www.edwardsvacuum.com

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