Sr. Design Quality Assurance Engineer

Company: Starkey Hearing
Location: Eden Prairie
Posted on: May 8, 2022

Job Description:

This exciting role as a Sr. Quality Design Assurance Engineer position is ideal for an engineer that owns and drives deliverables related to the NPI process. It's a key partner in all department goals and objectives. This position is responsible for ensuring product quality and compliance through leading the application of Design Controls and Risk management through the entire product life cycle (Advanced Development, Product Development, and Product Manufacturing). This position is responsible to provide a high standard of product quality that conforms to global standards and regulatory requirements while ensuring a primary focus on patient safety and reliable product performance. Starkey Hearing Technologies is a privately held, global hearing technology company headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Founded in 1967, Starkey is known for its innovative design, development and distribution of comprehensive digital hearing systems. Starkey is the only American-owned provider of hearing technologies. The company has more than 5000 employees globally, operates 26 facilities and does business in more than 100 markets worldwide. Starkey---s product Livio AI was named to TIME---s list of the 100 Best Inventions of 2019. Here---s a video about how Starkey is redefining the hearing healthcare industry, which features 13 employees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vRujbz9DCoI8 Approach and Deployment Design Quality Assurance Partner with Design Engineering on new product development. Participate in design reviews, establish quality requirements, and coordinate qualification testing. Owns and drive deliverables related to the NPI process: Design Controls, Risk Management, Product Performance, Quality, and Compliance; key partner in all department goals and objectives Proactively partner with Design and Manufacturing team members to identify and implement solutions to yield higher reliability and quality products Develops project quality plans to an appropriate level of due diligence and deliver on time. Organizational Improvement Identify and implement procedural improvements to establish a lasting culture of quality Support and mentor cross functional teams to ensure sound, systematic problem-solving methodologies are utilized to identifying, prioritizing, communicating, and resolving quality issue through the product life cycle. React to change productively and handle other essential duties as assigned. Job Requirements Minimum education, certification and experience requirements: Education: 4 years college degree in Engineering with an emphasis in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering required. Six Sigma Green Belt Certified or higher required. Certified Black belt preferred. Experience Required 7 years of experience in Quality Engineering, Design Engineering, or Manufacturing Engineering required. 7 years mechanical and electrical component production experience desired. Knowledge of: Mechanical engineering or electrical engineering is required. Electrical engineering desirable. Metallurgy, plastics, and chemistry desirable. Process validation, developing inspection plans and process control plans using sampling plans and statistical methods and basic measurement techniques desired. Medical device manufacturing a plus. Skills & Abilities Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills required. Excellent people skills required. Strong collaboration skills required. Strong written and oral communication skills (timely, clear, concise, accurate, conclusive, influential, targeted to audience). Sufficient judgment to make reasonable business decisions concerning quality issues with regard for both economic and quality aspects. Equipment Operation: Measurescope/Toolmakers microscope, Microsectioning equipment, Computer and associated spreadsheet/word processing software, Microscope, Environmental Chambers, acoustic test equipment.

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