Quality Engineer

Bruker • Santa Barbara, CA, United States • $97k - $173k / year • 2d ago

Quality Engineer

ID 2026-19269

Job Function Quality & Regulatory

Overview

Join a Global Leader in Analytical Instrumentation

Are you passionate about engineering innovation and looking to advance your career with a company at the forefront of analytical instrumentation? Bruker, a world leader in research and development solutions, invites you to join our team in Santa Barbara, CA as an Manufacturing Engineer.

With over 60 years of driving progress and more than 11,000 employees across 90 global locations, Bruker continues to shape industries and improve quality of life worldwide.

Bruker Nano, one of our four operating segments, empowers customers in academia, government, life sciences, and applied industries with the tools to uncover the properties of matter and visualize molecular structures. Our divisions span Nano Analytics, Nano Surfaces & Metrology, Fluorescence Microscopy, and Spatial Biology.

As a Quality Engineer at Bruker AFM, you'll play a pivotal role in quality engineering, improving processes and being a key part of the manufacturing engineering team. If you're ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply and become part of our innovative family.

Responsibilities

General:

* Following company policies and processes

* Initiating and supporting continuous improvement activities

* Creating metrics and reports as required

* Documenting and improving Quality Processes

* Training new employees in Quality Processes

* Guiding process users and answering questions

* Ensuring compliance with internal and external standards where applicable

* Approving Engineering Change Orders for Quality Engineering

* Participating in NPI projects as a core team member

* Supporting Manufacturing Engineering projects as needed

* Performing other functional duties as assigned by the supervisor

* Supporting Global Supply-chain Management (GSM) department on vendor selection and performance activities

* Supporting Receiving Inspection activities, answering their questions regarding processes, parts, design intents, drawings, inspection techniques, sampling plans and SAP QM transactions

Non-Conforming Material (NCM) and Material Review Board (MRB):

* Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool

* Processing NCM data into databases (SAP)

* Managing Material Review Board (MRB) activities

* Managing MRB room inventory

* Managing MRB metrics and reports

* Ensuring on-time disposition of NCM records and NCM material

* Ensuring NCM data integrity and compliance with internal and external standards, policies and procedures

Supplier Deviation Request (SDR):

* Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool

* Approving SDRs

* Monitoring and maintaining SDR process, work instructions, and PLM database

* Managing SDR metrics and reports

* Ensuring on-time disposition of SDRs

* Ensuring SDR data integrity and compliance with internal and external standards, policies and procedures

Quality Information Records (QIR)

* Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool

* Creating and maintaining Quality Inspection Plans in SAP

* Creating and updating QIR in SAP

* Ensuring SAP quality plans' functionality and accuracy

* Preventing QIR and Quality Lot errors in SAP

* Working with manufacturing engineers and receiving inspectors to maintain quality plans and QIRs

First Article Inspection (FAI):

* Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool

* Creating FAI requirements on FAI forms

* Supporting Manufacturing Engineers' approval of FAI results

* Generating FAI metrics and reports

* Ensuring on-time disposition of FAI results

Out of Box Quality (OBQ):

* Owning the process, documentation, and PLM tool

* Chairing the OBQ board meetings

* Managing the OBQ action items

* Generating OBQ Metrics

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

* Fluent in Microsoft Office Tools

* Advanced skills in MS Excel (data mining, macros, charts, tables, pivot tables etc.)

* Experience in leading and contributing dFMEA, pFMEA, DFx tools and processes

* Experience in, NPI process

* Experience in leading and contributing cross-functional international teams

* Experience with chairing Material Review Board (MRB) and NCM activities

* Excellent people skills and team player

* Experience with SAP material master and quality modules and transactions

* 3D CAD experience with ability to read fabrication drawings and make changes

* Knowledge of common inspection tools and how to use them

* Excellent understanding of fundamentals of quality assurance and QMS

* Experience in using conventional inspection equipment and CMM (or similarly advanced tools)

* Experience in process capacity analysis

* Excellent verbal / written communication, and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications:

* ISO9001 or equivalent

* Lean Six Sigma

* Experience with process improvements

* Experience with writing Engineering Changes

PHYSICAL/ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS:

O Strong typing skills

O Ability to lift 25lbs

EDUCATIONAL/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

BS in Engineering

Minimum of 3 years' Quality Engineering experience

At Bruker, base salary is part of our total compensation. The estimated base salary range for this full-time position is between $97,000 and $173,000. You will have the ability to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base salary for the role will depend on several job-related factors, including, but not limited to education, training, experience, the geographic location of the successful candidate, skills, competencies, job-related knowledge and travel requirements for this position. Full-time employees may also be eligible for a performance-related incentive in addition to a full range of benefits including 401(k) with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, medical and dental plans, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, employee assistance program and paid time off including vacation, sick time and holidays, and more.

Bruker is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Certain positions at Bruker require compliance with export control laws and a result, all interviewed candidates for all positions will be screened pre-interview to determine their eligibility in light of export control restrictions.

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