Quality Engineer

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• The successful candidate for this position must have a broad technical background with the ability to work with engineering, manufacturing, service and suppliers across a wide variety of issues. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are an absolute requirement to establish effective working relationships within Tesla and outside 

• Development of manufacturing requirements, quality standards and product quality plans to assure products will meet expectations of our target customers 

• Deployment of manufacturing level requirements to subsystems, assemblies & components to assure clear focus on design and customer needs 

• Identification of critical requirements to assure proper supplier and production focus on critical needs 

• Leading development of FMEAs (Design & Process) for development teams to identify and address critical risks 

• Support development of manufacturing equipment, controls and test plans to address risks identified in FMEA. Participate in design reviews to assure product subsystem quality, manufacturability, reliability, etc. 

• Assist development with statistical tolerancing, Monte Carlo analysis and other methods to investigate the effects of part and process variability on system performance 

• Support process capability analyses to investigate the ability of suppliers and production processes to meet defined specifications and quality standards 

• Design effective experiments through DOE or other methods to support design teams in investigation of various alternatives or in design validation testing 

• Manage and facilitate the root cause & corrective actions system through tracking and validation of issues and support in root cause analysis through facilitating brainstorming, use of lean methodologies, hypothesis testing, design of experiments, etc. 

Job Requirements

• Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Materials, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent experience 

• Six Sigma certification is preferred 

• A minimum of 3+ years of experience 

• Specific training and demonstrated success in applying design for quality and problem-solving methodologies, FMEA, process capability analysis, hypothesis testing, DoE, SPC, etc. 

• Strong background and demonstrated success applying statistical methods 

• Minitab, JMP or other statistical software capabilities are preferred 

• Data mining and database (e.g. MySQL) experience 

• Excellent oral, written and presentation communication skills