Western Digital Principal Engineer Quality Engineering 

Canada, British Columbia, Area H (Cultus Lake/Columbia Valley) 

174855696

In this role you will have the opportunity to Work as Principal Engineer, Quality Assurance accountable for overall product quality of the NPI releases.

The Principal Engineer provides independent oversight of the design input process, design V&V activities, design transfer and product realization, and performance in the field to ensure that all design requirements are effectively met.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of product quality from PRD to Production handover for high volume production development until sustaining.
• Single point of contact, representing and driving quality in all program team meetings.
• Conduct cross-site, cross-team lessons learned for any Quality issues during development and sustaining phases of Product Life-Cycle
• Participate in Engineering reviews ( PRD, DFx, Qualification sync, test plan, RDT ) and forecast potential quality risk
• Perform quality risk assessment to a project and drive for mitigations enabling business, apart from being a gatekeeper
• Identify process gaps in the Product Life Cycle (PLC) and continuously highlight improvement actions for the execution teams
• Influence quality culture and mindset across the company and bring in more strategic goals
• Demonstrated to take data based decisions and resolve contentions

Requirements / Qualification

• Bachelor or Masters Degree in Electrical/Electronic based Engineering
• 10 to 12yrs of certified professional experience in quality engineering
• Thorough understanding on Product Life Cycle and process-gap identification
• Exposure to factory processes and hands-on is a big advantage

Experience and hands-on in

• E2E product development, factory and customer quality
• Driving product quality and reliability working with CFT, Six sigma GB/BB would be added advantage
• Design for Quality / Reliability, pFMEA, DFMEA, DFM, DFT, Root cause analysis
• NPI product development and sustenance
• Data analysis and data-based decision making and action
• Process improvements drives for structural quality improvements
• Influencing CFT for decisions of betterment of quality

Good understanding on

• Program Management
• Quality challenges and levers
• Product Qualification cycle
• RDT & ORT for Electronics

Have Demonstrated

• Strong teamwork
• Communication and leadership capabilities in driving cross-functional working teams
• Strategically and methodically thinking to bring the right balance of product quality in meeting customer and company needs is essential to the success of this role
• Influencing skills

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.