Solar Quality Engineer | Portland, TN 29 views

Solar

Location: TN
About the job
Are you ready to join a fast-paced, innovative team making a real impact in the renewable energy industry? Join Shoals Technologies Group (NASDAQ: SHLS), a leading provider of electrical balance of systems (EBOS) solutions for solar and energy storage. Headquartered just north of Nashville, Tennessee, we have been driving industry innovation since 1996 by delivering cutting-edge technologies that improve efficiency, safety, and reliability for solar systems worldwide. With over 60 GW of solar systems deployed globally, we’re setting the standard for the renewable energy industry.

We are a collection of engineers, renewable advocates, curious minds, and collaborators. Our manufacturing facilities in Tennessee and Alabama, along with sales teams across Spain and Australia, enable us to power clean energy solutions across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. We push boundaries and challenge each other to design, develop, and deliver solutions with the potential to change the world. We are the rebellious hero.

Summary:

The Quality Engineer – BLA will plan, coordinate, and directs quality assurance programs on the manufacturing floor designed to ensure continuous production of products consistent with established customer requirements. This position will work closely with the manufacturing sites to ensure timely completion of a variety of quality improvement activities.

Qualifications

Responsibilities:

Perform statistical analysis to analyze trends, and work with the site functional groups to investigate and conduct root cause analysis and recommend corrective actions for processes and products.
Develop and lead quality improvement projects, based on prioritizing metrics such as cost of quality, inspection data, and or customer quality escapes.
Prepare reports by collecting, interpreting, analyzing and summarizing data and present solution proposal.
Performs quality audits and sets quality standards for incoming materials, in-process finished and products materials.
Develops and leads cross functional teams in continuous improvements efforts and transfer across all Sites when applicable.
Reports on complex quality analyses and defective products and recommends necessary quality procedures and process changes.
Ensures compliance throughout all quality testing and validation phases.
Provides technical leadership and assists in training on problem solving techniques and quality tools.
Responsible for the mitigation of customer complaints as part of a cross functional team.
Lead cross functional teams and implement continuous improvement initiatives across critical business functions.
Reviews control of nonconformance material disposition and inspection of reworked product
Support the product development process by providing key elements to quality.
Facilitate and lead and train problem solving activity through the 8D Process, DMAIC Principles, and 5-Why Problem Solving.
Assist manufacturing quality managers with RPN reduction – creating and enhancing our PFMEAs and Control Plans and process flows.
Establish, analyze, and drive quality process performances across operations.
Follow and instill good safety practices according to Shoals objectives.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferred or related field
Minimum 2 years of manufacturing experience in Quality Role
Minimum 1 year of Statistical Process Control (SPC) experience
Experience creating work instructions, procedures, and developing control plans
Strong communications skills both written and verbal
Experience with Microsoft Suite and Minitab or a similar software
Root cause analysis techniques
Able to read blueprints
GD&T experience
Ability to work in a team and individual environment
Must have the ability to pay attention to detail
Ability to work on-site in Portland, Tennessee
Ability to travel up to 10%

Preferred Qualifications:

Certified Quality Engineer
Six Sigma Green Belt

Shoals Technologies Group, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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