Quality Engineer at Plexus Corp. in Buffalo Grove, IL

Summary: Plexus Corp. is dedicated to creating transformative products across various industries including Aerospace/Defense and Healthcare. The Quality Engineer I ensures continuous quality compliance during manufacturing operations and leads the development of inspection strategies to maintain high quality standards. Responsibilities: - Build and embed Quality Awareness in Operations by ensuring effectiveness of training and inspections. Educate operators and production associations on quality and compliance procedures - Ensures compliance of customer requirements, industry standards, and safety in the workplace. Primary interface with customers on quality related matters as well as lead to improve incoming customer inquires to reduce Return Material Authorizations (RMAs). Participate and support regulatory and customer audits at site - Understands and follows Plexus quality policy guidelines, customer specifications and adheres to regulatory compliance. Monitors own work to ensure quality standard is met as well as look for opportunities to improve quality and eliminate waste at work. Delivers work in way a that eliminates scrap or rework. Keeps supervisors informed and escalates issues when needed - Drive Proactive Continuous Improvement on Yield & Quality Metrics by designing templates for documents, file types, and document databases. Drive cross-functional teams to deliver continual improvement activities for internal processes deliverables - Provide Supervision to Quality Assurance Inspectors and Technicians. Guide Quality Assurance operators, group leaders, and technicians in ongoing quality improvement activities Required Qualifications: - Ability to work well in fast-paced manufacturing environment - Strong ability to identify and solve problems proactively using structured problem solving tools, including making timely and effective decisions - Apply systemic data analysis and problem solving to address a full range of technical and organizational problems with creativity, imagination, confidence and responsibility - Ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze, interpret, validate, and communicate data to key stakeholders - Ability to seek out best practices and apply them within their assigned area - Ability to design a system or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, efficiency, repeatability, environmental, health and safety. Includes documentation and controls to ensure long term sustainability - Ability to become a Subject Matter Expert for an assigned system or process - Ability to coach and mentor technicians and other support staff within assigned areas of expertise - Ability to operate effectively in a cross-functional team environment Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree with 1 or more years of related experience is preferred. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience will be considered Required Skills: Quality Compliance, Manufacturing Operations, Inspection Strategy Development, Certificates of Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Customer Specifications, Return Material Authorization (RMA) Management, Continuous Improvement, Data Analysis, Problem Solving Tools, Experiment Design, Quality Assurance Supervision, Coaching Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, Paid time off, Retirement savings, Opportunities for professional development, Work-life balance, A variety of perks to enhance the team member experience