Senior Quality Engineer
Eaton · Santa Ana, CA
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $99k–$145k
- Travel
- 10%
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior quality role at Eaton (industrial) in Santa Ana, CA. Develop, communicate or train, and ensure adherence to quality standards, product specifications, work instructions and procedures across a multifunctional manufacturing organization.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, SPC, FMEA, ISO 9001, Supplier quality
- Base pay
- $99k–$145k
- Day to day
- about 10% travel · relocation help
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How this role compares
Against 163 other live quality postings in California.
- Base pay
- In line with similar roles
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $101k–$149k, from 79 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 78%
- ✓ FMEA 56%
- ✓ Supplier quality 48%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 43%
- AS9100 41%
- PPAP 39%
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This plant: Eaton in Santa Ana
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Qualifications
- ✓Must have bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics from an accredited institution
- ✓Minimum three (3) years QUALITY experience in Engineering or Science function
- ✓Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
- ✓Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Only candidates within a 50 miles radius of Santa Ana, CA. will be considered. Active Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area.
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in quality engineering, electrical engineering or mechatronics engineering
- ✓At leat five (5) years experience in Quality, Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics function
- ✓Ability to make quick decisions and communicate them clearly
- ✓Hands-on experience with manufacturing procedures, preferable from a Quality standpoint
- ✓Experience in a quality engineering function in a manufacturing organization with a focus on electrical or electronics products preferred
- ✓Experience in technical project and program management preferred
- ✓Experience in developing quality procedures and quality management systems preferred
- ✓Experience in technical writing with focus on electrical and mechanical engineering preferred
- ✓Experience in supplier quality management preferred
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Eaton’s Critical Power and Digital Infrastructure Division is currently seeking a Senior Quality Engineer in Santa Ana, CA.
The Senior Quality Engineer is responsible for developing, applying, revising and maintaining quality standards for flow-down of customer requirements, engineering product key characteristics, and assurance of in-process, final test requirements, and shipping / receiving inspection processes.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
What you’ll do
- •Develop, communicate or train, and ensure adherence to quality standards, product specifications, work instructions and procedures across a multifunctional manufacturing organization
- •Lead cross-functional teams in deploying continuous improvement activities, remediation actions and root cause analysis through various quality tools and processes (A3, 8D, 5why, fishbone, etc)
- •Evaluate, communicate and rectify in-process rejections, obtain disposition and implement containment, corrective and preventative action to ensure product performance and specification attainment
- •Implement and maintain Statistical Process Control (SPC), analysis, monitoring and reporting to maximize reliability and inspection efficiencies
- •Ensure daily internal quality processes and standards are met on a day-to-day basis.
- •Support external customer focused issue resolution as needed including supplier quality, customer quality management, report outs and other externally facing quality activities.
- •Manifest a quality culture in all activities through quality management system activities and regular audits including Eaton QMS implementation, ISO 9001 audits and related activities, and employee engagement events.
Skills
- •Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
- •Ability to lead cross-functional meetings, such as Change Board, FMEA, etc.
- •Excellent oral and written communication skills as well as planning and organizational skills
- •Procedure/SOP writing
- •Ability to use a variety of computer systems including Microsoft office and assigned technical software
- •Ability to balance competing priorities and multiple projects at once
- •Ability to effectively present results and recommendations to senior-level executive team
- •Ability to read and understand forms, blueprints & schematics, including bills of material, ECN’s, tolerances and special notation.
- •Ability to read technical documents and drawings including electrical drawings, one line diagrams, power flow diagrams, mechanical blueprints and other electrical and mechanical drawings
- •Ability to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift 0-15 pounds
- •Ability to be available for travel up to 10% if needed
All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
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