Staff Quality Engineer, VulcanForms
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Office located in Newburyport, MA
Building advanced digital manufacturing infrastructure
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Building advanced digital manufacturing infrastructure
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options
Office located in Newburyport, MA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To accelerate innovation through digital production at scale, enabling the world's critical industries to innovate, grow, and deliver sustainable impact.
Role
Who you are
- Knowledge of Root Cause Analysis, Data analysis, and Statistical Process Control concepts
- Experience in first article inspection reports (FAIRs), quality monitoring, and leading root cause correct actions for both short-term and long-term initiatives in a cross functional environment
- Experience in manufacturing process knowledge with Quality systems and industry technical standards (ISO 9001, AS9100 and/or AS9102), interpreting drawings, work instructions, Bill of Materials (BOMs), consumable materials control, process disciplines and tool control
- Experience with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)/AS9145; Utilizing tools such as PPAP, Key Characteristics, DFMEA, PFMEA and/or Control Plans
- Expertise in Geometric Dimension and Tolerancing blueprint interpretations
What the job involves
- As a Staff Quality Engineer you will be a hands-on engineer in a role involving machining and manufacturing complex parts and products
- Develops and drives measurable Quality improvements relating to products and processes
- Ensure Inspecting and Testing of materials, equipment, processes, and products to meet quality specifications
- Create test and inspection method and develop and execute test method validations
- Collaborate to develop and implement quality and process controls and improvements
- Assure the QMS conforms to the customer, internal, industry (i.e., AS9100, ISO 9001, ISO 13485), and regulatory/legal requirements
- Engage and support shop floor personnel and manufacturing defect prevention teams to ensure alignment on top priorities (using baseline data and future forecast). These tools are used to drive and facilitate compliance resolution, containment, Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action Implementation within closed loop process controls
- Perform process walks, operator observations, and lead manufacturing team discussions to drive process enhancements to reduce variation
- Lead/Drive Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) initiatives (PFMEA, control Plans, SPC, etc.) using baseline metrics and future demand with the ability to perform verification/validation of improvements and efficiencies to facilitate defect prevention
- Integrate product and process verifications such as First Articles and audits throughout value stream processes to prevent quality escapes, optimize
- Throughput and assure on-time delivery of products and services
Our take
Manufacturing is central to catalyzing innovation, enabling economic growth, and building resilient supply chains. This has only become more important as global supply chains are increasingly sensitive to geopolitical dynamics and sustainability concerns. The MIT-born company, VulcanForms, is a manufacturing company that has completely rethought how products are invented and delivered, bringing forth a breakthrough in digital production systems.
The company’s integrated production system enables digital technologies to deliver sustainable, high-growth impact at scale. Through the acquisition of Arwood Machine Corporation, the company has extended its end-to-end workflow capabilities, supporting its ability to ensure the highest quality and precision products tailored to each customer.
The unicorn company produces components and assemblies for a range of industry leaders, including medical, defense, aerospace, and semiconductor companies. VulcanForm is pioneering the way manufacturers must adapt to global supply chain challenges.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2022
$250m
LATE VC
May 2020
$77m
SERIES B
Total funding: $355m
Company benefits
- Full Health Benefits
- Stock Options
- 401(k) Matching
- Life Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Generous PTO
- Relocation Assistance
Company HQ
Ayer, MA
Leadership
John Hart
(Advisor & Co-Founder)Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Co-Founder of Desktop Metal, and Co-Founder & former Chief Scientist of Absolute Nano. Currently on the Board of Directors at Carpenter Technology Corporation.
Kevin Kassekert
(CEO)Previously COO at Redwood Materials, Vice President of People & Places at Tesla, VP at SVTC and worked in Operations Management at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation.
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