Quality Engineer

Your Job

Molex’s Optical Connectivity team is looking for a Quality Engineer. The Quality Engineer will work closely with Advanced Quality Planning engineering, Process Engineers, Project Managers, and manufacturing team members to create and maintain a quality plan. This person will help identify product and process risks and develop process controls and final inspection plans to ensure a flawless product launch. This person will support day-to-day operations with respect to problem solving, customer concern resolution, and quality system-related assignments.

Location: This is an onsite role based at our facility in Naperville, IL.

To comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, this position requires applicants to either provide proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status or be eligible to receive an export authorization (a license) under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and/or the Export Administration Regulations.

What You Will Do

• Quality Plan Development: Create and maintain inspection plans in SAP to ensure product meets all customer and internal requirements.
• Quality System: Work with all departments to ensure compliance to ISO9001 and ISO14001 requirements. Perform internal audits as required.
• Process Change Management: Create, document, and complete PCN’s (both internal and external) with optical cross functional team.
• Apply sound Quality judgment when making and communicating decisions. Contain issues by blocking and holding non-conforming products, leading the disposition of held material in a timely manner.
• Customer Concerns: Ensure documentation relating to customer acceptance of new products and product modifications is completed. Provide corrective action reports to customers.
• Supplier Quality Engineering Functions. Work with supplies on quality issues to resolution.
• Problem Solver: Lead problem solving (8Ds), analysis, and resolution of product-related customer complaints or internal quality complaints. Support efforts for the prevention of repeat issues & systemic improvements to reduce Quality Notifications and internal DMR’s.
• Support continuous improvement projects/plans to reduce scrap, improve throughput, defect detection, and optimize processes and systems.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelors Degree in Quality, Engineering or other related field
• 1+ years of Quality Experience in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with root cause and corrective action analysis and documentation
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• 1+ year of knowledge of statistics with Minitab or similar software
• Able to travel (domestic and international) 1% - 5%

What Will Put You Ahead

• 3+ years of experience in Quality Engineering in a new-product introduction environment
• DOE experience
• Working knowledge of fiber optics assembly and testing processes
• Experience with Quality Systems (ISO 9001, ISO14001) and supplier auditing
• Experience with SAP and SAP NetWeaver

For this role, we anticipate paying $70,000 - $90,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.