Senior Quality Engineer

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Salem, OR
Mid level
Robotics
The Role
The Senior Quality Engineer enhances manufacturing processes, develops quality standards, assesses product quality, and collaborates with engineering to ensure compliance with quality metrics.
Summary Generated by Built In

Agility Robotics is a pioneer. Our robot, Digit, is the first to be sold into workplaces across the globe. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in imagining, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, intelligence, and efficiency -- robots specifically designed to work alongside people, in spaces built for people. Every day, we break through engineering challenges and invent new solutions and capabilities that will one day make robots commonplace and approachable. This work is our passion and our responsibility: our mission is to make businesses more productive and people’s lives more fulfilling.

About the Role

The quality engineer is responsible for supporting our business plans to improve the manufacturing processes and increase production output. Duties include creating the company's quality standards and testing systems to reflect manufacturing capability, efficiency and performance. The quality engineer is also responsible for the creation of processes and documentation that reports issues and errors relating to the production process with efforts placed to find a solution.


About the Work

  • Responsible for supporting quality KPIs and plans for improving manufacturing quality
  • Support manufacturing quality by developing and improving processes, procedures and training aligned with company and industry quality standards
  • Develop and improve critical to quality methods to measure and produce manufacturing quality
  • Improve product quality by making recommendations for changes to designs and processes
  • Collaborate with engineering and supply chain to develop and improve supplier quality
  • Ensure products adhere to company quality standards prior to shipments
  • Assess manufacturing processes to develop plans to increase product quality and capability
  • Develop and implement a system to measure and ensure manufacturing conformance throughout the manufacturing process
  • Use statistical techniques to track and continuously improve quality and predictability
  • Collect data and generate quality reports for manufacturing and supply chain to identify areas of improvement


 About You

  • Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, or related discipline plus 3+ years relevant experience in product manufacturing
  • Strong understanding of QMS, and developing and improving policies and SOPs
  • Strong knowledge of NPI quality requirements with a hardware manufacturing company
  • Extensive experience using quality tools and methods (FAI, PPAP, 6S, CAPA, 8D, FMEA, etc.)
  • Proficiency using statistical applications (JMP, Matlab, Tableau, SPC for Excel, etc) Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in a customer service culture
  • Able to work efficiently in a team environment as well drive projects/tasks independently
  • Experience leading lean manufacturing and training initiatives a plus

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job as this is subject to change at any time with or without notice. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give such instructions or assignments.


Work Environment & Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; talk and hear; use hands to touch, feel, handle, push/pull and move objects; see details of objects that are less than a few feet away; see differences between colors, shades, and brightness. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk and move around the office; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch; and see details of objects that are more than a few feet away.

Benefits 

  • 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
  • Equity: Company stock options.
  • Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
  • Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
  • Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
  • Time Off:
    • Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
    • Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
  • On-Site Perks: Catered lunches twice a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
  • Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
  • Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
  • Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
  • Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.

Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.


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The Company
HQ: Tangent, OR
83 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Agility Robotic's legged locomotion expertise is built on a history of academic research and scientific breakthrough. We're here to build robots for good. Robots that help businesses and people thrive.

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