Quality Control Engineer

Quality Engineer

The Quality Engineer develops, assures, and maintains the quality of products and processes, including standard procedures (e.g., ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14000 family of standards), quality audits/review, etc. Develops methods for testing, sampling, and training as well as develop policies, procedures, and initiatives to evaluate and improve the quality of products, materials, components and/or operations. This is a key role within the Quality department as well as the organization.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for driving process and product improvement initiatives across multiple functional disciplines
• Perform analyses of program requirements and prepare responsive quality plans, and procedures.
• Develop and implement formalized quality system processes, procedures, and work instructions for ISO 9001 certification.
• Lead the efforts to gather, organize, monitor, analyze and report information on products and processes.
• Utilize various problem-solving methodology to determine true root cause and drive corrective action
• Provide ongoing quality management system support to include performing internal audits, ensuring implementation of root cause corrective actions.
• Evaluate non-conforming material.
• Provide technical support for Assembly/Test/Inspection personnel to include executing improvement plans, developing inspection methods and criteria, specifying appropriate sampling plans, interpreting, and revising specifications, and processing non-conforming materials.
• Develop and generate statistical reports on inspection activities and results, new products or process testing results, etc. and recommend action as required.
• Establish programs to evaluate the precision and accuracy of production and processing equipment and testing, measurement, and analytical methods.
• Analytical thinking: the ability to think critically and logically, as well as the ability to work with large sets of data and make sense of them.
• Provide regular reporting of progress and status.
• Works with Sales and Customers directly to complete RGAs and all returns and paperwork. Partners with sales and marketing to determine impact of quality problems as well as potential improvements.
• Works with production team to identify improvements in manufacturing processes specific to error proofing and quality assurance. Identify training needs and partner with departments to initiate and facilitate.
• Lead cross-functional process improvement and corrective actions teams to support continuous improvement and quality activities.
• Maintains focus on continuous improvement by applying 80/20, PLS, and USA principles/techniques and makes process improvement recommendations to management.

Position Qualification Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field required

Experience/Skills:

• 3+ years progressive experience in a factory manufacturing environment utilizing Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and/or Total Quality Management principles.
• 2+ years QA/QC experience including implementing and managing Quality Management Systems
• Proficient with ISO Standards, Six Sigma tools, statistics
• Proficient in Excel
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, communication and writing skills.
• Ability to define problems and drive to root cause and effective corrective action.
• Process improvement and problem solving skills
• Demonstrated success initiating change

Compensation Information: $75,000-$82,000