Director, Preventive Quality

Company: Topcon Positioning Systems (Topcon)
Location: Livermore
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

Topcon Positioning Group is headquartered in Livermore, California, USA (topconpositioning.com). Topcon Positioning Group designs, manufactures and distributes precise positioning products and solutions for the global surveying, construction, agriculture, civil engineering, BIM, mapping and GIS, asset management and mobile control markets.

This position is critical for the implementation of the Preventive (APQP) and Functional Safety methodology. Topcon's new initiative is to implement processes throughout the planning and development phases to prevent potential failures, ensures the products are safety compliant and drive continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Integrate Preventive Quality and Functional Safety practices into the New Product Introduction Process leveraging tools such as APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) to ensure all new products will be ISO 13849 compliant.

Deploy and improve tools and processes across all functions focused on improving new product launch quality, reliability and Functional Safety

Lead the organization through integration of Functional Safety and compliance with ISO 13849 standards

Lead all compliance Testing

Lead Beta Testing

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree (B. S.) in engineering, preferably Master’s Degree in mechanical or electrical Engineering.

A minimum of 10 years of experience working in heavy equipment OEM or suppliers. 10 to 15 years of experience working at a reputable firm in the field of engineering design.

Must have a minimum of 5 years leading design engineering activities Must have a minimum of 5 year in leading and deploying APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning).

Experience in extracting functional safety and customer needs requirements into the design.

Experience in creating and deploying strategy into major organizations

Experience training and coaching others

Demonstrated technical expertise in Functional Safety.

Demonstrated leadership in deploying Design for Robustness, APQP or Design For Six Sigma.

Ability and experience in creating and deploying strategy into major organizations.

Experience in reliability planning, testing and analysis.

Good knowledge of global standards for EMC performance and familiarity with local and international certifications.

Ability to develop and deploy the safety and compliance strategy for all new products.

Experience in managing widely distributed team on a global footprint.

Strong communication and presentation skills. Ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of internal and external customers.

Must have a minimum Six Sigma green belt certification, preferably a Black Belt level certification.

Knowledge of relevant Functional Safety standards (13849, 25114, 26262).

Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize changes while consistently meeting operational objective and customer needs.

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