Quality Engineer
Beacon EmbeddedWorks
Job Description Summary
The Quality Engineer is responsible for supplier management and providing technical support to manufacturing, including leading or supporting quality investigations and continuous improvements projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead or provide cross-functional team support on resolution of quality issues, including returns, complaints, and internal non-conformances.
- Guide cross-functional teams using quality tools and techniques to determine root cause and develop corrective actions.
- Strong technical writing skills to document investigation reports and support updates and/or creation of procedures.
- Lead training as needed to support quality objectives and culture.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvements to drive customer satisfaction and achieve business and plant objectives.
Supplier Quality
- Support quality audits, corrective actions, and facilitate supplier changes and qualifications.
- Lead incoming quality initiatives and support resolution of vendor quality problems. Assist with developing incoming inspection tools and testing (e.g. FAIR, PPAP).
- Lead supplier quality initiatives or continuous improvements projects.
Regulatory Compliance
- Ensure compliance within industry standards and regulations, including IEC, ISO9001, ISO13485, AS9100.
- Lead or support internal and supplier audits and facilitate corrective actions as needed.
- Support customer and third-party audits as needed.
- Assist with regulatory projects including UL certification and ISO accreditations.
- Assist with environmental and safety regulatory compliance to RoHS, REACH, Conflict Mineral, IEC, OHSA.
Continuous Improvements and Project Management
- Ability to lead Quality Plans or Continuous Improvements projects, meet deliverables, and demonstrate effective project management skills.
- Strong technical writing skills with the ability to create project plans.
- Support focused quality activities including process control, root cause analysis, corrective actions, documentation and execution of systems, and inspection.
Other Benefits
- Multiple options for medical and dental coverages
- Paid life insurance and disability coverage
- 401k with match
- 128 hours of time off per year to start
- Paid holidays
Essential Skills and Experience
- 2-3 years of experience working in electronics manufacturing environment or the equivalent combination of education and experience. SMT experience a must.
- Intermediate knowledge of quantitative methods and tools, including SPC, process capabilities, and design and analysis of experiments.
- Advanced expertise with problem-solving tools to investigate, document and resolve quality issues.
- MS Office experience required. Experience with advanced Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) change management, ERP, and metrics a plus.
- Electrical, mechanical, and statistical aptitude required.
- Strong oral and written communications skills are required. The ability to represent Beacon EmbeddedWorks in a professional manner to customers, auditors, vendors, and other outside contacts is required.
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment with quickly changing priorities to ensure superior customer satisfaction.
- Self-motivated with proven ability to apply innovative solutions to problems.
- Experience with manufacturing and/or operations planning
- Experience managing external development teams
- Experience with regulated markets (e.g., medical, aerospace…)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in engineering or related field with 3-5 years of experience in manufacturing.
Practical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel, or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands and arms
- The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to ten pounds
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- This position will be on site at our Eden Prairie, MN location
- The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet, that of an office environment. However, on some instances this job may require work in areas where eye protection is necessary
- Travel may be required, infrequently
Work Authorization
- The incumbent must meet the definition of “US Person” under ITAR/EAR regulations
Location
Eden Prairie, MN, USA
Employment Type
Permanent, Full-time
On-site vs. Remote
On-site or Remote
Base Salary
$80k+
Working Hours
40 hours per week
Beacon EmbeddedWorks is a full-service provider of embedded solutions. Its innovative System on Modules (SOMs) are backed by an extensive suite of customization, security, and support services and its dedicated team of experts provide in-house manufacturing and support to accelerate development and reduce risk.
All Beacon EmbeddedWorks SOMs are designed, manufactured, and supported in its US-based facility in Eden Prairie, MN. As dependable, pre-certified, and feature dense solutions, Beacon EmbeddedWorks SOMs serve the most strenuous applications, including medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets. Beacon EmbeddedWorks operates mostly in the US but also has a small customer base in continental Europe and the APAC.
Beacon EmbeddedWorks is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. The Company was voted the Top 200 Workplace in 2025.
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