Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

About Mattson

Mattson Technology is a global company with nearly 30 years of experience delivering leading-edge technology and products in the Dry Strip, Plasma and Thermal markets to our customers. While we consider Silicon Valley our roots, we have evolved into a worldwide organization that includes manufacturing, research and development, customer support, finance and sales operations throughout Asia, Europe and North America.

Our success is a result, in large part to the highly qualified and dedicated employees at Mattson Technology. Our employees represent a diverse group of individuals, committed to working as a team to deliver on our commitments. We value the ingenuity, flexibility, passion, knowledge and “can do” attitude that our employees exemplify daily.

We encourage you to consider a career at Mattson Technology. Mattson Technology recognizes that to recruit and retain a team of highly qualified employees, we must invest in our employees and therefore, we offer a comprehensive employee benefits package.

This opening is for a Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer. Under minimal supervision, performs complex assignments to develop, apply, and maintain quality requirements for incoming materials. Participates in the design and implementation of methods and procedures for testing and inspecting the quality level of incoming material. Reviews supporting manufacturing and procurement documentation to ensure it contains the necessary criteria and provisions to permit effective inspection and testing of materials. Initiates corrective action for procedural, product, or process deficiencies. Analyzes reports and rejected purchased material and recommends corrective action.

Key Responsibilities

• Sustains the production line through implementation of established procedures.
• Performs moderately complex analytical measurements and experiments to resolve product and process issues.
• Collects and analyzes data for trends using moderately complex quality tools and techniques and takes corrective action on the results.
• Works on NCMRs and other tasks related to the dispositioning and corrective action of non-conforming material.
• Assists team members on yield and scrap improvement projects by taking responsibility for action items related to the project.
• Supports Customer Account Managers on quality issues affecting customers.
• Attends and participates in meetings regarding New Product Introduction and Design for Manufacturability, and is responsible to deliver on-time, the quality deliverables as stated in the Engineering Design Process.
• Develops reports related to supplier quality and process control, utilizing available software applications and takes improvement actions on the results.
• Coordinates meetings to formulate methodologies for root cause analysis. Implements statistical methods to isolate problems and resolve them.
• Reviews supporting manufacturing and procurement documentation to ensure it contains the necessary criteria and provisions to permit effective inspection and testing of products and materials to meet specified requirements.
• Takes corrective action on procedural, product, or process deficiencies internally and at Suppliers.
• Analyzes reports on rejected supplier material and implements corrective actions as appropriate.
• Participates in Supplier selection. Performs supplier qualification, supplier quality system audits and supplier process audits.
• Participates in the development of Supplier Quality Management systems and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering discipline and 5 years of related experience.
• Alternatively, a Technical Certificate, or Quality Engineering (QE) Certificate with 8 years of related experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Effective verbal and written communication skills that clearly convey information and ideas. Ability to communicate in such a way to influence peers and management, as well as communicate well cross-functionally in a professional manner.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office software programs, to a level of professional proficiency. Able to produce professional Engineering reports including introductions, conclusions and recommendations.
• Ability to analyze and resolve technical problems of a complex nature quickly and independently.
• Strong knowledge of inspection methods in the design, fabrication, and production of electronic or electro-mechanical equipment.
• Ability to use and navigate quality analysis software programs for the analysis of raw attribute and variable data.
• Strong knowledge of Supplier Quality Management and Supplier Quality Management systems.
• Ability to use and navigate documentation control systems, PLM and MRP systems. This includes change generation and justification to the change control board as applicable.
• Working knowledge of a category of purchased material manufacturing processes and standards for Metal Fabrication and/or Electro-Mechanical and other key services including paint, powder coat, plating, anodizing, surface treatment and cleaning.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and achieve completion milestones as set by upper management.
• Strong knowledge of GD&T, MIL STD 1916, associated ASTM, ANSI and ASME Mechanical Standards for Machining and Mechanical parts.
• Strong knowledge and application of problem solving techniques such as 8D, FMEA, cause and effect, and brainstorming.
• Working knowledge of Quality Function Deployment and ISO requirments.
• Demonstrated ability and history of innovative Quality techniques i.e. Six Sigma, DFM, DFR.
• Working knowledge of Statistics, SPC and Six Sigma and other quality control techniques (i.e. DFM, DFR, DFT, TCOO, etc), and to interpret, plan and react to statistical data analysis.
• Working knowledge and application of supplier selection processes. Performs supplier qualification, supplier quality system audits and supplier process audits.
• Ability to participate in meetings or lead meetings as needed to find solutions to complex supplier or process quality problems.
• Ability to write clear, concise, complex and professional detailed reports on the results of complex projects. Ability to present results of projects or corrective actions in a meeting atmosphere.
• Ability to contribute in the development of training materials.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Company is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.