Quality Control Engineer
Seer, Australia

About us

Seer is developing technology to revolutionise the diagnosis and management of neurological conditions, with a special focus on epilepsy. Our mission is to deliver personalised clinical insights and advance patient experience with leading-edge technology.

Our technology consists of advanced wearable devices, a cloud platform and machine learning systems. These systems are at the core of our at-home video-EEG-ECG monitoring and diagnostic service - the first of its kind. Seer has already made a big impact across the east coast of Australia over the last three years and is now building for international expansion.

General Description of the position

The Quality Control Engineer is responsible for all aspects of product quality with respect to Seer’s manufacturing operation. This includes component level, assembly level, and finished products, and includes system design to ensure quality standards are achieved.

The Quality Control Engineer is required to work with suppliers, design engineers, manufacturing and service teams to promote quality mindset, understand fundamental root causes of quality issues and the engineering rectification required. The QC engineer will also be an important addition to our Regulatory team, ensuring that Seer’s manufacturing environment meets and exceeds the ISO13485 standards.

This is an exciting opportunity to build a quality mindset in a young ambitious company from the ground up. The Quality Control Engineer is a critical position within Seer Medical and its journey toward being a global medical device manufacturer.

Position Responsibilities

Quality Engineering

• Design quality solutions for use in a live production environment including testing equipment, jigs, and processes
• Review and and assess product designs, manufacturing and assembly processes, working closely with technical resources to drive quality, higher production yield, and increase hardware reliability and longevity
• Design and operate the Inspection Quality Control station and end-of-line quality systems including any sub-assembly or finished product functional testing
• Develop rapid life-cycle testing systems and procedures to stress test critical components

Operational Systems

• Ensure quality standards for each part, and category of parts, including electronic PCBs, mechanical design parts, purchased components and assemblies
• Implementation of standards by working with Product Design team to produce relevant inspection documentation (work instructions per part)
• Manage technical aspect of supplier relationships, including initial selection, and ongoing management of CAPAs, non-conformance issues, root cause analysis, warranty

Reporting for Continuous improvement

• Feeding back issues or improvements to Product Design team to increase yield by optimizing a design for subsequent product iterations
• Optimize Manufacturing and assembly processes

Training

• Lead training initiatives for assembly quality, such as soldering, and use of required tools

Things you can do

• Highly proficient with soldering cables, PCBs and mechanical assembly with a wide variety of materials and assembly tools and methods
• A deep and intuitive understanding of product assembly processes and their long term performance
• Holistic understanding of all the technical aspects that contribute to quality - design, assembly, supplier management etc
• Understanding and experience of ERP/MRP systems
• Experiencing in working under a quality management system
• Can work across departments to promote quality

Things you enjoy

• Very detailed minded and analytical when it comes to all aspects of product quality with respect to product design, components, and assembly.
• Hands-on work

What we offer

You’ll be joining a fast- growing Medtech company and to be part of an experienced Product and Manufacturing team. You’ll play a vital role in Seer’s manufacturing of advanced medical products and will have the opportunity to help steer Seer’s product growth.

Please note, this work will be based in our HQ adhering to the new Occupational Health and Safety guidelines, therefore we will not be able to accommodate remote work.

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