CORE Quality Engineer - Product Development

About Us

SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positively impact peoples lives in homes around the world. the company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowed SharkNinja to enter multiple product categories driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham Massachusetts with more than 3300 associates the companys products are sold at key retailers online and offline and through distributors around the world.

A detailed-oriented passionate and dynamic individual is needed to be an integral part of our post launch quality team ensuring that we are continuously analyzing marketplace learnings to drive product and process improvements. In this position youll experience unparalleled collaboration with many functions of the organization Engineering Customer Excellence Marketing Supply Chain Creative ID Quality Manufacturing and Senior Executives offering you exposure and interaction rarely found in other roles in the organization. Youll play a pivotal role in leading product and data analysis to determine reasons for returns leveraging your learnings to drive sustainable solutions that provide measurable long-term improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze customer complaints and investigate field failures translate learnings into actionable engineering and consumer-facing initiatives. You will represent the voice of the consumer and will coordinate corrective actions follow-up and reporting

• Assist in driving continuous improvement of product quality through reduction and prevention of non-conformances while defining and implementing metrics to evaluate the impact of continuous improvement initiatives

• Support suppliers in 8D responses and regular quality resolution update meetings including written investigation reports and review supplier corrective actions

• Participate in design reviews DFMEA safety reviews and review the manufacturing and test documentation to ensure customer quality requirements are met or exceeded

• View the entire consumer experience at a macro level to identify experience detractors and track product performance communicating key learnings and developments to appropriate work flows for action

• Partner with SharkNinjas Customer Excellence team to monitor consumer reception and sentiment in field.

• Help lead input tracker meetings with cross functional teams. Discuss top issues and delegate actions to cross functional team

• Conduct critical analysis on engineering changes (ECN) to make sure changes have no impact on degradation of quality of product

• Tracks digital escalations and create accurate responses for customers to better understand our product

• Manage product health reporting and push for continuous five-star experience via iterative design improvements.

• Always strive for process efficiency we value a go-getter who can make the most out of any situation and deliver impactful results

• Act as a product expert for cross-functional team member questions and concerns
• Present status of activities and special projects to senior management regularly

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree (or equivalent experience) in mechanical engineering quality product development human factors engineering or a related field preferably at a consumer goods company

• 2 years of related engineering experience preferably at a consumer goods company

• Exceptional analytical problem solving and root-cause analysis skills

• Ability to multi-task and handle tasks with competing priorities effectively.

• Excellent oral communication & report business correspondence & procedure-writing skills.

• Ability to be a team player and work independently

• Change agent with energy passion and enthusiasm to drive change.

• Demonstrated expertise to effectively communicate within all levels of the organization around design verification and validation activities; production &process controls; Corrective & Preventive Action (CAPA) consumer complaints and product improvement activities.

• Demonstrated collaboration negotiation & conflict resolution skills ability to lead acknowledge develop communicate & implement a strategy to ensure compliance.

• Demonstrated understanding of product development lifecycles design change and document change control product and process verification and validation methodologies and manufacturing / production process control methodologies.

• External Focus: Understanding customer needs marketplace dynamics industry trends and the competitive landscape in the industry/function - Clear thinker: Simplifying strategy into specific actions with clear accountability making decisions with speed & accuracy based on best available information & communicating priorities clearly & concisely.

• Proficient in Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of SharePoint a plus

• Ability to work in a fast-paced deadline driven high impact environment

• Strong verbal presentation and written communication skills

• Resourceful well organized highly dependable efficient and detail oriented

• Ability to be a team player and work independently

• Ability to travel