Quality Engineer

Our client is seeking an experienced Quality Engineer for an onsite contract in Glendale, AZ. This opportunity will be for one year with the possibility of extension. The candidate encompasses the application of scientific and technological principles concerned with the integrity of manufactured products and processes from an engineering standpoint (design specifications, testing procedures, and minimum quality standards).

100% Onsite: Glendale, AZ

1st Shift- Mon-Fri 8AM-5PM

40 hours a week

Responsibilities:

• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Designs and analyzes inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Audits quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• Contacts are primarily internal and may be outside of the immediate work group or organization. Rather infrequent external contacts.

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• Minimum Experience: 3+ Years in MFG quality or process Engineering.
• Experience in DMAIC, 8D and 5-Why Methodologies.
• Requires thorough understanding and application of standard engineering or scientific theories, concepts, principles, and techniques.
• Requires the ability to develop and resolve solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Works under general direction with defined objectives.
• Approach is consistent with established procedures.
• Work is reviewed for soundness of technical judgment and overall adequacy.

Areas of specialization include:

• Design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
• May be certified in lean and six-sigma quality engineering methodologies.
• May also be responsible for the unit's Performance Excellence (Six-Sigma) project portfolio, assuring the effective use of different improvement methodologies (DMAIC, Lean, DESGN, etc) toward the achievement of division or plant strategic goals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Keab/Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification
• PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC,. MSA experience4
• Proficiency in Minitab, JMP, or Power BI
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer- CQE or CQA
• SAP, ETQ or similar ERP system experience
• Project management experience