Quality Engineer

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The Quality Engineer has the role of deploying and facilitating the quality culture in GPG Power Protection, Electrification Smart Power (ELSP), ensuring and controlling quality to exceed customer expectations while ensuring sustainable operations and representing the customer’s voice within local teams, providing customer experience feedback and input. In this role you will be on a team of Quality Engineers, Technicians and Supplier Quality Engineers at the Richmond Virginia site that applies its expertise and knowledge in finding creative, efficient means to improve quality output and continuous improvements. You will drive process initiatives that ensure compliance with customer requirements, regulatory agencies, safety and engineering specifications while instilling site accountability for governance of the Quality System, product acceptance and product quality.

This position reports to

Quality Manager

Your responsibilities

• Designs, implements, evaluates and revises, technical quality assurance protocols/methods for the inspecting and testing of in process raw materials, production equipment and finished products
• Leads and facilitates multi disciplined RCA (Root Cause Analysis​), problem solving and risk analysis. Identify the root of technical issues and recommend corrective actions
• Determine quality metrics for all manufacturing procedures
• Coordinate with supply chain, manufacturing, R&D (Research and development) and engineering to ensure specification compliance
• Ensures activities and items are in compliance with both quality assurance standards and applicable government regulations
• Performs analysis of reports, production data and identifies trends in the inspection of finished products and recommends corrective actions when necessary
• Lead, facilitate and support continuous improvement teams
• Ensures that established manufacturing inspection, sampling and statistical process control procedures are followed
• Works directly with customers to support product/process evaluations, audits and compliance to customer specific requirements
• Works directly with suppliers to support product/process evaluations, audits, and compliance to ABB specific requirements
• Performs internal audits of processes and functions to assure continued compliance to international standards and requirements
• Position will support compliance to ISO9001, safety ISO45001 and other standards

Your background

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering or related field and 1 to 8 years of experience; alternatively, a special combination of education and experience and/or demonstrated accomplishments
• Electrical experience preferred
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing program
• Healthcare plan

More about us

ABB Smart Power is a global technology leader, with products and solutions that make power supplies smart, connected and protected. Its intelligent products and solutions make power more competitive by improving the energy efficiency, productivity and reliability of almost any operation. We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at ABB ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizen status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, family medical leave status, or protected veterans status. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, applicants may request to review the Affirmative Action Plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762. Protected veterans and qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to [email protected] Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner. #LI-Hybrid