We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Quality Engineer to join our team, where you will play a critical role in ensuring the integrity and excellence of our products and processes. This position is responsible for monitoring and improving quality systems across the plant, supporting customer-specific initiatives, and driving continuous improvement through root cause analysis and corrective actions. The ideal candidate will bring a strong background in manufacturing and quality management systems, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across departments and with external stakeholders.
Responsibilities:- Monitors the quality receiving and production program to ensure conformity of purchased material and final products to quality standards.
- Responsible for specific processes and/or customer products with regard to overall quality requirements and improvements.
- Supports all areas of the plant regarding all aspects of product quality and quality system applications.
- Devises, designs, or develops forms and instructions for recording, evaluating, and reporting quality and reliability data.
- Designs and develops Quality system procedures and instructions.
- Supports Return Material Analysis/MRB as needed or directed to determine root cause and apply effective corrective actions.
- Performs root cause analysis and implements corrective actions to address quality issues.
- Strong ability to solve problems and prevent/reduce waste using quality tools, such as: Ranking/Pareto analysis, cost of quality indicators, statistical tools, capability analysis, Cause and Effect, 8D, 5 WHYs, etc.
- Meets with vendors, customers, quality representatives, and company personnel to discuss and resolve quality problems as required.
- Meets with customers to implement, manage and drive customer specific initiatives, including supporting additional locations where necessary to implement lessons learned and process expertise for customer specific requirements.
- Supports quality related audits as needed.
- Ability to communicate orally and produce written documents with clearly organized thoughts using proper terminology with all levels of employees and customer organizations.
- Supports/trains workers engaged in measuring and testing products and tabulating data concerning materials, products, or process quality and reliability.
- Develops training documents and presentations.
- Supports risk analysis / PFMEA development through cross functional group.
- Ability to interface with customers, respond to their concerns, and to verify effective results in an expedient manner.
- Ability to coordinate First Article Inspections and support as needed.
- Ensures that we maintain a team atmosphere and work collaboratively with additional departments to support quality related efforts.
- Minimal travel as needed
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Position Requirements:- BS Engineering or Material Science preferred or equivalent combination of experience and education in similar fields.
- Manufacturing experience with broad process knowledge.
- Strong experience working in an ISO9000/ AS9100/ quality management system organization.
- Familiar with basic inspection and Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing.
- American Society for Quality Certified Quality Engineer preferred or equivalent AS9100 Auditor Training.
- Customer Specific Delegation Training.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office products, including Excel, PowerPoint and Visio.
- Strong experience working with customers.
- Strong communication skills (written/oral).
- The ability to deal with multiple priorities and make decisions independently.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States due to ITAR requirements for defense products.
CompensationEmployee Type: Salaried
Currency: USD
Salary Minimum: 70,000
Salary Maximum: 100,000
Incentive: No
Disclaimer: Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of this posting. The actual salary offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market / business considerations, and geographic location.
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