Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Description

Primary Purpose of Position: 

This position will lead quality projects engaging plant operations, and suppliers leveraging problem-solving techniques to improve and sustain plant quality performance metrics. As a key driver of quality improvements within the site, this role has a direct impact on the business and customers with a top loss focus for improvement. 

Organizational Relationship:

This position reports directly to the Senior Quality Assurance Manager. 

Supervision Responsibilities:

This role will have direct supervision of approximately 10 quality technicians.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Lead quality improvement projects around scrap, customer complaints, plant and supplier nonconforming material. 
• Manage corrective/preventive action items.
• Support the development and implementation of a quality management system. 
• Manage supplier SCAR process and drive improvement in current program. 
• Support reviews on quality performance metrics identifying and driving improvements with the use of data analytics and problem-solving tools
• Participate in quality performance and project status reviews of quality projects
• Assist in validation of the implementation of corrective actions across our value stream when needed, to assess the effectiveness of improvements
• Support deployment of risk mitigation activities to identify proactively and address potential quality risks
• Monitor operational metrics, and customer/supplier performance promptly to address potential issues.
• Develops Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps applying methods to reduce process variation that reduce or eliminate the cause of defects.
• Advocate for change as we formalize a quality management system impacting plant departments such as Maintenance, Process Engineering, Tooling & Production.  

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Root cause analysis, FMEA, MSA, SPC
• Data based decision making   
• Proficient use of MS Office, emphasis on excel
• Advocate for change  
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Customer-facing interaction related to quality
• Quality management system elements & implementation

Education and Experience

• BS in Engineering or other closely related technical field
• Minimum 4 years of experience in a Quality Engineer role in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 &/or IATF 1694
• Injection molding experience preferred
• Six-sigma certification or ASQ certification a plus

Physical Requirements

·         Ability to stand, sit

·         Ability to lift 25 lbs.

Working Conditions

·        Climate controlled environment

·        Position is M-F less than 5% overnight travel