Product Quality Engineer

Summary Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish! The candidate will be involved in supporting various products' development through multiple phases mainly at FATP site. Product PQE will enjoy key decision making combined with on-site hands-on problem solving that comes with owning the quality for some of the highest quality and highest visibility products. This person will also be responsible for developing and implementing quality tools and systems for groundbreaking product designs in a cosmetically demanding environment. The focus will be primarily on incoming, process and outgoing quality.

Description This role requires a constant collaborating with multiple function teams, Engineering, Operations, and Quality within Apple as well as various suppliers during the NPI products builds at OEM supplier FATP sites. There will be a various working hours and weekends work will be required.

Responsibilities

• Quality Planning:
• Apply solid understanding of quality control and manufacturing concepts to be responsible for the development of specific Product Quality Plans (PQP) appropriate to program
• Evaluate and communicate the yield and outgoing inspection quality of new and existing processes
• Drive corrective actions cross-functionally with internal and external team members
• Develop and implement groundbreaking quality inspection tools
• Identify and direct studies to implement improvements where appropriate
• Establish audit procedures appropriate to program and supplier to ensure adherence to Apple quality standards
• Collaborate with internal and external groups to ensure that proper definition of quality expectations and that appropriate assurance techniques are used for the product.
• Contract Manufacturer Quality Management
• Assess CM production control and quality programs, identify shortfalls to expectation, and directly secure agreement to correct
• Review PQP with CM and other Apple functional groups to optimize factory quality programs
• Evaluates CM readiness and adherence to PQP at all development and qualification stages
• Monitor quality performance through measurement of production line statistics, company inspections, and audits. Prepare summary of performance and communicate to appropriate management.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires proven experience in consumer product process and quality area, strong ability on driving corrective actions and failure analysis efforts is required.
• Proficiency in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of quality and reliability concepts, supplier management, and general manufacturing operations. An area of expertise such as a specific process, material or industry is key to show depth of knowledge base.
• Project management experience and a solid understanding of problem solving tools including design of experiments, root cause analysis and statistical process control principles preferred.
• Experience with any of the following is a plus(but not required): mechanical, EE, Acoustics and ML&AI.

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Role Number: 200680351-1340