Supplier Quality Engineer
Posted on: 26 Jun 2021
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Job Description
Job Description
Responsible for actions to achieve compliance with WD Corporate Quality standards on assemblies and components produced by contract manufacturers (CM) and suppliers:
Approve Vendor Listing (AVL) qualification.
Material and component certification.
Manages manufacturing and quality actions of approved production suppliers to support the objectives of the Platform Operations group:
Directs, reviews and approves First Article Inspection (FAI) reports produced by the supplier and/ or contract manufacturer.
Establishes, monitors and takes action, as necessary, on quality production control metrics of the CM and suppliers. Typical items include regular incoming inspection reports, supplier quality issue tracking and adding new suppliers to the AVL.
Action owner for quality excursions caused by manufacturing defects. Works with suppliers on failure and root cause analysis, corrective action implementation and supplier 8D reports.
Manages Design for Manufacturing, Cost and Quality actions between contract manufacturers and suppliers consistent with Manufacturing Readiness Review (MRR) requirements and Manufacturing Requirements Document (MRD).
Participates in Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) with CM and suppliers for ongoing quality monitoring, corrective actions and improvements.
Liaison between CM and Platform Operations team:
Managing escalations and using 8D process, working with JIRA process
Approving new suppliers- provide actions for approval plan
Subject Matter Expert (SME) for production changes to supply chain and CM
Qualifications
Degree in Electrical, Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
10 years experience work with suppliers and fabricators of PCBAs, SOCs, components, power supplies, fans and large scale box builds like JBODs.
Experience working with internal and external cross-functional, international teams
Subject expert in PCBA SMT processes for assembly, inspection and test.
Experience or working knowledge of quality management tools and standards.
Experience or working knowledge in statistical process management and quality tools.
Experience or working knowledge in risk management tools such as FMEA, Kepner-Tregoe
Western Digital
San Jose, CA
Western Digital Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells data storage devices and solutions worldwide. It offers client devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices, such as desktop and notebook PCs, security surveillance systems, gaming consoles, and set top boxes; flash-based embedded storage products for mobile phones, tablets, notebook PCs, and other portable and wearable devices, as well as automotive, IoT, industrial, and connected home applications; flash-based memory wafers; and embedded storage solutions and iNAND embedded flash products, such as multi-chip package solutions.
The company also provides data center devices and solutions comprising enterprise helium hard drives; enterprise SSDs consisting of flash-based SSDs and software solutions for use in enterprise servers, online transactions, data analysis, and other enterprise applications; data center solutions, including HDDs and drive configurations for use in data storage systems and tiered storage models; system solutions that offer petabyte scalable capacity; and data storage platforms and systems. In addition, it offers client solution, such as external HDD storage products in mobile and desktop form; client SSDs; removable cards used in consumer devices comprising mobile phones, tablets, imaging systems, still cameras, action video cameras, and security surveillance systems; universal serial bus flash drives used in the computing and consumer markets; and wireless drive products for in-field back up of created content, as well as wireless streaming of high-definition movies, photos, music and documents to tablets, smartphones, and personal computers (PCs).
The company sells its products under the HGST, SanDisk, and WD brands to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure players, and retailers. Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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IndustryInformation Technology
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No. of Employees71, 600
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Website
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Jobs Posted2044
