PrincipalQualityEngineer

Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water. We create a more resourceful world to protect essential resources for today and tomorrow. Join us. The Principal Quality Engineer is working in close collaboration with NPI core development teams and is therefore located in R&D Centers Of Excellence. In order to achieve BL project success, the Project Quality Engineer ensures that the Itron Development Process is properly applied, manages global project risks and supports the PMO on all quality aspects, targeting “built in Quality” for new products and solutions. ## Duties & Responsibilities: * Coach Program/Project managers on Itron Product Life Cycle (PLC) activity for New Product Introduction (NPI) implementation and identify / manage gaps * Challenge Itron Product Life Cycle (PLC) deliverables content (completed and validated by competent people) * Support / challenge the Project/Program manager for quality topics * Verify readiness of project gates * Validate project termination when the product and processes are capable in all domains (Design, Procurement, manufacturing, Sales, etc.) * Lead Quality in project phases (problem solving, risk avoidance, phase reviews, product & process capabilities and Lessons learned) * Globally managing the project risks, ensure proper focus on contingency plans * Represent customer voice in the project, manage customer in case of quality issues during the project phase * Lead or participate in System FMEA (Failure Mode Evaluation and Analysis), Design FMEA and support Process FMEA, as well as any activity related to risk avoidance * Support Supplier Quality in supplier selection EVAL/process audit along with PPAP’s (Product Part Approval Process) & PVL’s (Product Vendor Listing) * Support / facilitate Project QRQC (Quick Reaction Quality Collaboration) and visual planning deployment * Support interfaces with customers on Quality aspects during project phases when project is dedicated to a specific