Quality Engineer III - Santa Clara, United States - Fujifilm Dimatix

Description

Overview:

Fujifilm Dimatix, Inc. strives to offer a healthy work environment that promotes individual responsibility and growth, a collaborative spirit, and an atmosphere that encourages learning, professional development and achievement.

We search for the most talented and qualified people for both external and internal opportunities. At Fujifilm, performance, development and accountability are the standards to which the company and its people strive toward. And to support its employees, we offer programs that motivate, educate and promote a healthy work-life balance, which increase employee satisfaction and overall personal well-being.

Fujifilm is committed to offering a comprehensive and flexible benefit program to meet the needs of employees and their families. This flexible approach allows employees to create a program that fits their lives. At Fujifilm, INNOVATION and PEOPLE matter.

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Salary range for position: $115,000 - $145,000, commensurate with experience.

POSITION SUMMARY:

This position strives to improve the yield of MEMS inkjet products by focusing on enhancing process control, eliminating defects and strengthening quality control. Daily goals are to initiate and support production yield and quality improvement by utilizing data gathering/interpretation, data visualization and defect analysis. A quality engineer will support the development of next generation MEMS devices; provide technical support and guidance for process sustaining and development activities, and participate in ensuring ISO compliance.

KNOWLEDGE: Having wide ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.

JOB COMPLEXITY: Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Internal and external contacts often pertain to company plans and objectives.

SUPERVISION: Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel (Team Lead). Be able to work self-directed.

EXPERIENCE: Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 6 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Ensure product yield and quality are keeping pace with the continuous improvement roadmap. Propose innovative ideas, procedures, metrology which will lead in improvements of MEMS products.
• Participate in NPI (New Product Introduction), fab wide programs such as capacity expansion, and other strategic initiatives to keep MEMS products and their quality competitive in the industry.
• Use data driven and statistical analysis approaches to evaluate and improve product performance. Periodically report and present performance metrics to key stakeholders.
• Organize and lead teams to address the root cause, take corrective actions, and propose preventive actions in an event of excursions or quality incident.
• Assist in investigating non-conformances, determine root cause and assign corrective and preventive actions with production or development team.
• Work with product development teams to transfer design into manufacture with good quality assurance.
• Identify product inspection and test gateways at critical stages of manufacture.
• Address internal or external customer quality concerns, identify root cause of quality issues or excursions, and propose solutions.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure company quality systems are maintained as per ISO9001 standards. Help with the quality training for employees, conduct internal audits as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function 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 the essential functions.

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Materials Engineering.
• Prior experience or exposure to semiconductor/MEMS fabrication processes such as photolithography, etching, and thin film deposition. Familiarity with defect detection and failure analysis methods.
• Have knowledge and experience of quality control and assurance in a volume production. Understand the quality assurance concepts, tools, and industry standards, such as QC 7 tools, FMEA, Six Sigma, and other quality tools.
• Have basic statistical knowledge and skills, such as Gage R&R, Cp, Cpk, SPC, and DOE. Know how to use data analysis results to do trouble shooting and solve problems.
• Demonstrated project management and team building skills.
• Excellent communication skills for interaction with diverse engineering and production teams.
• Proficiency in data analytics tools and packages such as JMP, Tableau, Minitab required.

DESIRED:

• PhD, Masters degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Materials Engineering.
• Knowledge in MEMS especially in piezoelectric resonators, sensors, or actuators.
• Experience with database SQL queries.
• Six Sigma black belt and ISO9001 internal auditor certification.
• Knowledge in MEMS especially in piezoelectric resonators, sensors, or actuators.
• Familiarity with database communication languages such as SQL.
• Exposure to Quality Systems tools such as ISO9001, ISO14001. Concepts include PDCA, control of change, control of nonconforming, and corrective action (CAPA).

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Standing, walking, using hands to touch, handle or feel, and talk or hear under one-third of the time.
• Sitting one-third to two-thirds of the time.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Normal office environment. Dress as appropriate, business-casual is the default.
• Works in manufacturing, clean room, and engineering lab environment.
• Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic).

OTHER:

• Other duties as may be assigned.
• Each employees primary objective is to assure that the quality, delivery, and cost controls within his/her control meet or exceed all of our internal and external customers requirements.
• Each employee is required to abide by the Employee Handbook and the rules and regulations explained and provided at each orientation and training session. Special attention must be given to the safety aspects of these documents.

FUJIFILM Dimatix provides competitive wages, a generous benefits package and a friendly, dynamic working environment.

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