Quality Assurance Specialist

Job Title: Quality Assurance Specialist

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Quality Assurance Specialist to join our team at Yacht. As a Quality Assurance Specialist, you will be responsible for ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of quality and safety.

Key Responsibilities:

• Represent Yacht in a fair, genuine, and trustworthy manner
• Contribute to positive, energizing, and rewarding environments for all colleagues
• Apply stakeholder management with other Yacht facilities, functional leaders, and colleagues to contribute ideas, vision, energy, and passion
• Ensure that customers receive products that meet or exceed their expectations
• Use problem-solving techniques and work habits to diagnose and resolve issues
• Deploy data-driven decisions
• Participate in the material review board and provide quality input into dispelling discrepant materials and products
• Complete documentation, including Discrepant Product Dispositions (DPD's)
• Support production and resolve issues regarding Statistical Process Control (SPC), discrepant material, issue containment, and resolution activities
• Check incoming components on quality and review inspection reports
• Perform outgoing quality checks for outgoing products
• Take care of Engineering changes and Corrective and Preventive actions (CAPA)
• Develop continuous improvement plans and apply quality tools and methods like Lean and Six Sigma
• Participate in New Product Development teams, provide product development deliverables as assigned, and participate in project gate review activities
• Be the contact person regarding supplier development, and quality issues for clients and suppliers and initiate, prepare, and review items such as 8 D reports
• Cooperate with the metrology lab to determine measurement methods and access and correct measurement correlation issues
• Prepare and conduct Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (Gage R&R) and apply Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis (PFMEA)

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree (Mechanical/Industrial Engineering preferred)
• Minimum of two years of Quality Engineering experience in a manufacturing organization
• Working knowledge of and experience with the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
• Experience in applying quality tools and methods such as PFMEA, Process Control Plans, Measurement Systems Analysis, which includes Gage R&R studies
• Working knowledge of any ISO9001-based Quality Management System, including ISO9001, International Automotive Task Force (IATF, and ISO13485
• Experience with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
• Experience with SPC and related software
• Understanding of sampling plan methodologies
• Ability to lift 25 lbs. when needed
• Ability to work in a manufacturing and office setting
• Business-related travel as required; within Europe (2-3 business trips/year) and international (1 business trip/year)

Working Conditions:

• A market-conform salary
• 27 holiday plus 13 short-time working days
• 8% holiday allowance
• Possibility of year-end shares in the company (after two years working in the company)
• Working in a family culture, everyone is open, direct, and transparent in communication
• Lot of freedom in the position as long as the procedures and quality requirements of the suppliers and customers meet the requirements and expectations