Electrical Engineer- Sensor Quality

Albuquerque, NM, USA

To strengthen our Sensor team, we are looking for an

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER – SENSOR QUALITY

ROLE

STA Technologies develops unique anti-counterfeiting solutions for product and document security applications. As part of these solutions, we create security features along with sensors to detect and authenticate these features. Our portfolio of sensors includes quality control tools, customer-facing measurement tools, and high-speed sensors in an industrial in-line environment.

You will be a Sensor Product Engineer, responsible for refining the existing sensor quality infrastructure to assure effective manufacturing of sensors and delivery of quality product to the customer. This effort will include assuring that the sensor quality program meets requirements from a variety of sources including compliance with ISO, internal and customer requirements. You will also be responsible for establishing and monitoring quality metrics as the portfolio transitions from the development environment to a production environment.

You will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Understanding the design, function and operation of STA sensors, and applying this knowledge to the development of a comprehensive quality program in support of sensor industrialization, sensor manufacturing, and sensor service during over a lifetime of 10 years.
• Collaborating with Design Engineering on the quality manufacturing infrastructure, including assuring that test fixture design and usage are well docuemnted across the full build cycle from incoming QC inspections through subsystem testing through final acceptance to enable efficient production with high reliability results.
• Coordinating and guiding development of quality control processes and fixtures at key vendors. Establishing and monitoring quality metrics for all vendor provided components.
• Evaluating ISO, internal and customer requirements and creating quality system products and documentation. Achieving and maintaining compliance with these requirements.
• Providing expertise and guidance to our Sensor Research and Development and Manufacturing across the lifecycle of existing and new sensor products to ensure that our products have high quality and reliability built in.
• Establishing and monitoring quality metrics for each of the products in the sensor portfolio as they transition from the development environment to a production environment.
• Performing quality analyses such as FMEA and root cause; MTBF, Inherent Availability and similar lifecycle metrics.
• Leading the analysis, documentation, and customer reporting of repaired products through our maintenance depot. Providing product and process recommendations for changes based on failure analysis. Providing expertise in the development of a manual depot monitoring system and then the transition to a web-based computerized monitoring system.
• Assuring that experience gathered through failure analysis and feedback from Customer Technical Services is fed back to the development and manufacturing teams.
• Establishing and supporting with data the justification of the criticality of system upgrades in a highly change-adverse environment

PROFILE

• BS in Electrical Engineering with experience in electronic component manufacturing. Experience as a quality engineer in this environment is desired.
• Experience in quality systems infrastructure and metrics for products that include electronics and mechanical components is desired.
• Experience with quality systems related to software and/or optics/lasers is desired.
• Relevant quality system experience in an ISO 9001 environment is desired. Experience with other ISO standards is highly desired.
• Experience with compliance with international shipping regulations is desired.
• Experience with product certification, such as NRTL and CE is desired.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required
• The ability to work closely to resolve technical issues within a diverse team across several time zones is required
• The ability to handle shifting priorities, multiple projects, and timeline pressure to meet deadlines is required.
• Comfortable with communicating in a variety of forums, across many levels of management and to a diverse range of stakeholders is required.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Willingness and ability to obtain and hold a US Government Security Clearance required.
• Must be able to support occasional domestic and international business travel.

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Nearest Major Market: Albuquerque