Hardware Quality Engineer

Bevi is on a mission to disrupt the beverage supply chain and replace single-use water bottles with smart water machines. Thousands of companies use Bevi to sustainably provide their employees with pure, sparkling, and flavored water at work. As the market leader in IoT-enabled beverage machines, we’ve raised over $160M in venture capital and we have grown tremendously each year since launch. In addition to maintaining hypergrowth with our current product line, Bevi is heavily investing in new product development.

We are seeking a Quality Engineer to join Bevi’s manufacturing and quality team. This role reports to the Director of Manufacturing and Quality, and will be responsible for measuring, improving, and maintaining the quality of Bevi’s products. The Quality Engineer will work closely with our contract manufacturer teams to measure, identify and prioritize targets for improvement. The ideal candidate will embrace the Bevi core values, learning new skills, working across disciplines, and driving issues to completion.

As a Quality Engineer at Bevi, you will

• Work closely with the contract manufacturer quality team to ensure timely responses and effective corrective actions
• Together with manufacturing, quality and external suppliers ensure accurate root cause analysis and effective corrective actions for design, manufacturing and field failures
• Work with different organizations within Bevi such as Customer Support and Field Support teams to triage and resolve potential quality issues impacting our end-customers
• Work closely with the Supplychain team to establish a qualifications process of new suppliers
• Act as the technical liaison between Engineering, Manufacturing and suppliers to ensure requirements are understood and complied with
• Work with the engineering team to improve documentation with respect to supplier understanding and inspection criteria
• Integral part of the product development team. Participate in product development activities and product design reviews and ensure quality requirements and reliability standards of components and sub-systems are embedded in the design.
• Work with supporting departments to ensure nonconforming conditions are quickly acted upon, appropriate dispositions are established and disruptions to the production line are minimized
• Maintain suppliers’ Quality data collection activities and run reports on a periodic basis to summarize data and to initiate and recommend suppliers’ continual improvement activities

Requirements

• Passionate about delivering best-in-class quality to customers and stakeholders
• 3-5 years minimum work experience as Quality Engineer
• Strong communicator able to facilitate discussion and present data to all levels of the internal and external organization
• Strong analytical and technical skills are necessary to interpret specifications and drawings and perform problem solving and data analysis leading to improvement initiatives
• Very strong quality improvement background, applying statistical tools, process FMEAs and root cause problem solving tools
• Experience leading Process Improvement Teams and managing major projects
• Experience in using SPC tools and understanding in how to apply them when measuring process reliability and repeatability in the supply chain
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Mechanical, Electrical, or Manufacturing Engineering
• Experience with the commercial appliance industry and knowledge of NSF and UL standards is a plus
• ASQ certifications of CQE and CQA are a plus
• Ability to be in the office 4-5 days per week
• NOTE: Must be able to travel up to 2%. Travel will mainly be domestic, but some international travel will be required if needed

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans with BlueCross BlueShield, 95% paid by employer
• 401(k) with company match, and environmentally responsible investment options
• Flexible PTO plus 12 company holidays, and additional paid days for sick leave, etc (including sustainability or social justice volunteer events)
• Generous fully paid parental leave for both birth parents and non-birth parents
• Fully employer paid disability and life insurances
• Wellness and fitness reimbursements
• Monthly stipends for cell phone use and commuting costs
• Onsite snacks, weekly catered lunch, and (of course) unlimited Bevi ... plus composting and terracycling, too
• Happy hours, team-building events, bagel breakfasts, Hero awards - and more!