Quality Assurance & Process Improvement Lead

Position Responsibilities: 

• Evaluate possible design concepts and establish robust technical architecture to achieve program goals. 
• Develop and maintain quality functions for the construction, additive manufacturing, and research & development (R&D) departments. 
• Evaluate and refine quality assurance (QA) processes/methodologies and enforce them within all teams involved. 
• Manage comprehensive program schedules. 
• Supervise 5-8 managers and engineers, including Plant Quality Assurance Manager, Quality Manager, Quality Control Operator, Quality Engineer, Supplier Quality Engineer, and Construction Quality Manager. 
• Drive design review process and follow up changes implementation. 
• Ensure that architecture, design process, and testing plans are compliant with relevant agency or regulatory requirements. 
• Identify and improve bottlenecks at the delivery process. 
• Drive New Product Introduction (NPI) process, including organizing the work of operational teams and supply chain partners and planning, producing, and scaling to volume production.
• Primary worksite located in Oakland, CA; job involves weekly travel to Desert Hot Springs, CA for 1-2 days and travel to Mexico approximately 4 times per year.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master of Science degree in Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a closely related field.
• At least TWO (2) years of experience in the job offered or at least TWO (2) years of experience in the following:

1. Evaluating and refining QA processes/methodologies and enforcing them within all teams involved 
2. Suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers (SIPOC) process engineering
3. Statistical process analysis (SPC)
4. Measurement system analysis (MSA)
5. Big Data analysis
6. Risk Assessment

OTHER: Job & Interview site: 610 85th Ave Oakland, CA, USA, 94621; job involves weekly travel to Desert Hot Springs, CA for 1-2 days and travel to Mexico approximately 4 times per year. Wage: $186,410.00 per year.  If offered employment must have legal right to work in U.S.  EOE.