What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Quality Engineer position at Bevi?
Bevi is on a mission to disrupt the beverage supply chain and replace single-use water bottles with smart water machines. Thousands of companies use Bevi to sustainably provide their employees with pure, sparkling, and flavored water at work. As the market leader in IoT-enabled beverage machines, we’ve raised over $160M in venture capital and we have grown tremendously each year since launch. In addition to maintaining hypergrowth with our current product line, Bevi is heavily investing in new product development.
We are seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to join Bevi’s manufacturing and quality team. This role reports to the Director of Quality Engineering, and will be responsible for measuring, improving, and maintaining the quality of Bevi’s products. The Senior Quality Engineer will work closely with sustaining and engineering teams to identify and prioritize targets for improvement. The ideal candidate will embrace the Bevi core values, learning new skills, working across disciplines, and driving issues to completion.
As a Sr. Quality Engineer at Bevi, you will:
- Lead subject matter expert for our Customer Care and Field Service team to triage and resolve potential quality issues impacting our end-customers.
- Ensure excellent manufacturing quality through tight process controls, preventive measures and timely corrective action implementation.
- Lead the implementation of key quality processes and best practices.
- Lead Quality actions with the Supply-Chain team to establish a qualifications process of new suppliers.
- Act as the technical liaison between Engineering, Manufacturing and suppliers to ensure requirements are understood and complied with.
- Facilitate and lead cross-functional teams for full Root Cause Analysis for failures in manufacturing and/or originating at end-customers.
- Regularly generate, publish, and present Quality KPIs and other relevant company metrics.
- Lead Quality Team in product development activities and product design reviews and ensure quality requirements and reliability standards of components and subsystems are embedded in the design.
- Maintain suppliers’ Quality data collection activities and run reports on a periodic basis to summarize data and to initiate and recommend suppliers’ continual improvement activities.
Important Note:
Although we list out what we generally look for, we are very likely missing other attributes and skills that you have that could make you a great fit, but are not currently listed. Research has shown this especially applies to women and other marginalized groups, who tend to apply if they check 100% of every box, versus men who apply if they hit roughly 60%. The point we’re getting at, it doesn’t hurt to take a chance and apply!
- Passionate about delivering best-in-class quality to customers and stakeholders
- 5-7 years minimum work experience as Quality Engineer or 2-3 years at a Senior QE level
- Strong communicator able to facilitate discussion and present data to all levels of the internal and external organization
- Strong analytical and technical skills are necessary to interpret specifications and drawings and perform problem solving and data analysis leading to improvement initiatives
- Very strong quality improvement background, applying statistical tools, process FMEAs and root cause problem solving tools
- Experience leading Process Improvement Teams and managing major projects
- Experience in using SPC tools and a deep understanding in how to apply them when measuring process reliability and repeatability in the supply chain
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Mechanical, Electrical, or Manufacturing Engineering
- Experience with the commercial appliance industry and knowledge of NSF and UL standards is a plus
- ASQ certifications of CQE and CQA are a plus
- Ability to be in the office 4-5 days per week
- NOTE: Must be able to travel up to 20%. Travel will mainly be domestic, but some international travel will be required if needed
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans with BlueCross BlueShield, 95% paid by employer
- 401(k) with company match, and environmentally responsible investment options
- Flexible PTO plus 9 company holidays, and additional paid days for sick leave, etc (including sustainability or social justice volunteer events)
- Generous fully paid parental leave for both birth parents and non-birth parents
- Fully employer paid disability and life insurances
- Wellness and fitness reimbursements
- Monthly stipends for cell phone use and commuting costs
- Onsite snacks, weekly catered lunch, and (of course) unlimited Bevi ... plus composting and terracycling, too
- Happy hours, team-building events, bagel breakfasts, Hero awards - and more!