Business Quality Engineer

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Texas Instruments is looking for an energetic, self-driven and quality minded engineer, who enjoys helping others to ensure that TI's products are built in accordance with customer and division quality requirements while maintaining production flow. The Business Quality Engineer at TI supports product development and production operations and ensures the integrity of components and products produced. This individual proactively drives quality improvement efforts in assigned areas with the goal of achieving 'zero defect' performance. The role also supports process improvement and problem-solving efforts with the focus on protecting and improving product quality and satisfying both internal and external customers.

Responsibilities include:

• Being a steward for quality and acting as the primary quality representative, beginning with new process development and continuing from new product development through product end-of-life
• Acting as team leader within the product line to resolve customer issues, that is, ensuring customer return investigations progress adequately and effectively address their root cause by the implementation of corrective and preventive actions. 
• Being an integral part of the product line and participating in risk decisions during development that have a direct impact on the future quality of the product, as well as for products already released to the market. 
• Identifying systematic issues and driving continuous improvement across our products to ensure rapid, repeatable and cost-efficient new product ramps that achieve competitive quality and reliability goals the first time
• Some domestic or international travel may be required to support business and customer engagements

Success in this role will be measured against overall business performance metrics, including quality performance metrics related to the ability to effectively and permanently solve business-owned quality issues.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics or related engineering fields of study
• 5 years' experience working in a semiconductor environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional customer interface, analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work effectively in an interrupt-driven, fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships with TI internal stakeholders as well as with customers
• Ability to manage customer expectations, and drive for results within TI to ensure that customer expectations and business objectives are met
• Have a passion for establishing quality as a way to strengthen our brand name and be able to influence without direct authority