Quality Engineer - Electroplating (POP)

Role & responsibilities

• Monitor and control quality throughout the POP and electroplating process, from incoming plastic components through final inspection.
• Establish and maintain quality standards for plating processes, including surface preparation, activation, electroless plating, electroplating, rinsing, drying, and finishing.
• Inspect and analyze plating defects such as blisters, peeling, burning, pits, roughness, stains, discoloration, poor adhesion, thickness variation, skips, and contamination.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement corrective and preventive actions using tools such as 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, and CAPA.
• Monitor critical process parameters and develop appropriate process control plans and inspection standards.
• Work closely with Production, Process Engineering, Maintenance, Tooling, and R&D teams to resolve quality issues.
• Support PPAP, APQP, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA, SPC, and other core quality activities.
• Participate in customer complaint investigations and prepare effective containment and corrective-action reports.
• Conduct process audits, layered process audits, and product audits as required.
• Drive continuous improvement projects aimed at reducing scrap, rework, customer complaints, and process variation.
• Maintain quality records, inspection reports, test results, and process documentation.
• Ensure adherence to applicable environmental, safety, chemical-handling, and regulatory requirements associated with electroplating operations.

Preferred candidate profile

Electroplating with Plastic Parts