Quality Engineer at Flextronics America LLC in West Columbia, South Carolina

Job Description:

Job Posting Start Date 04-29-2024 Job Posting End Date 06-29-2024

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion and cultivate a workplace culture of belonging that views uniqueness as a competitive edge and builds a community that enables our people to push the limits of innovation to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

At Flex, we welcome people of all backgrounds. Our employees thrive here by living our values: we support each other as we strive to find a better way, we move fast with discipline and purpose, and we do the right thing always.

Through a respectful, inclusive and collaborative culture, a career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in your career growth and join our purpose -- to make great products that create value and improve people’s lives.

Job summary:

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Quality Engineer located in Columbia, South Carolina.  

Reporting to the Director of Quality, the Quality Engineer role involves…

What a typical day looks like:

• Develops and initiates standards and methods for inspection, testing and evaluation.


• Devises sampling procedures and designs and develops forms and instructions for recording, evaluating and reporting quality and reliability data.


• Develops and implements methods and procedures for disposition of discrepant material and devises methods to assess cost.


• Directs workers engaged in measuring and testing product and tabulating data concerning materials, product or process quality and reliability.


• Compiles and writes training material and conducts training sessions on quality control activities.


• Holds up Product Engineers and Quality Program Managers with customer interfaces as necessary on quality related issues.


• Assures data availability and integrity for all quality related data. Consolidates and reports quality results.


• Initiates corrective action requests as needed and tracks to satisfactory completion.


• Assists with development and implementation of quality audits.


• In charge of developing, applying, revising and maintaining quality standards for processing materials into partially finished or finished products.


• Designs and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and/or production equipment.


• Explores reports and returned products and recommends corrective action.


• Establishes program to evaluate precision and accuracy of production equipment and testing, measurement and research of equipment and facilities.


• Approves product, process and equipment qualifications.


• Provides liaison to various regulatory bodies.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.


• Typically requires 6 years of experience in quality engineering in the high technology electronics industry or related field.


• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations and permutations.


• SMT experience required


• Use of the following tools may be required: 


• Electronic Assembly:  color code, component, schematics. May require various PCB operations. 


• Testing: oscilloscope, cable and harness testing, trouble shooting, component testing, logic analyzer.


• Inspection: bare board, systems, components, cable and harness, microscope, measuring tools.


• Mechanical & Electrical Tools: taps and dies, alignment tools, measuring tools. Office skills: telephones, data entry, office software to include, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation package.


• Typically requires skill and troubleshooting, and diagnostics, and overview of the entire test process and the ability to train others.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision


• Life Insurance


• Matching 401K


• PTO


• Tuition Reimbursement


• Employee discounts at local retailers

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Job Category

Quality

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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