Quality EngineerDepartment: Quality
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Fort Worth, TX - Consumables
Reporting To: Juanita Middleton
DescriptionGD Energy Products is looking for a
Quality Engineer to work in
Fort Worth, TX.
When joining GD Energy Products, you will be eligible for many of our competitive benefits, including: vacation, 401K matching, paid holidays, sick days, full medical/dental/vision benefits, short/long term disability, maternity/paternity leave and many more!
Job Summary:
The Quality Engineer will provide quality assurance support to the product development team, resolving defects and other potential issues and ensuring that products meeting engineering specifications.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This position will guide the work duties of plant level Quality Inspectors.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Responsible for site Quality Manamgent System, ISO 9001:2015 compliance, and project support for a growing manufacturing company. This includes driving results and fostering collaboration to ensure compliant Quality Systems and continuous improvement at the site.
- Collaborates and partners with multiple stakeholders through cross-functional Quality Improvement Activities to ensure QMS compliance is incorporated into daily operations. Perform responsibilities and addresses problems with limited supervision.
- Reviews design plans, process procedures, test procedures, and quality manuals to understand the scope, requirements and function of products.
- Ensure products meet the organizations and customers' quality and product integrity requirements.
- Provides leadership to formation and sustained performance of action oriented RCCA along with Quality Improvement initiatives i.e. CAPA or PCCA initiates that drive Continuous Improvement culture.
- Identifies root causes of problems in the production process; recommends and/or implements corrective action measures.
- Analyzes data to identify trends in product quality or defects with the goal of mitigating and preventing recurrence associated with future defects.
- Maintain the requirements related to keeping the site ISO 9001:2015 certified.
- Education and working knowledge of RCCA methodologies, concentration in Root Cause, Quality Improvement, Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline preferred.
- Quality Engineer work experience. Knowledge of Quality Management Systems, and communication skills. Proficient in project management and problem solving.
- Oversee QM lot/First Article Inspections using First In First Out (FIFO) or through communication of inspection priority criteria utilizing SAP platform.
- Ensure the generation of adequately detailed and yet practical FAIs records that are maintained and stored for future review purposes.
- Must be willing to learn and obtain experience as needed for successful management of site level QMS. Must be willing to work as a team player with production and the Quality Team.
- Continuous Improvement. Provide leadership working in cross-functional teams to drive superb Quality Improvement initiatives along with solid contributions towards progressing leading indicators to achieve a world-class Quality Management System.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Extensive knowledge of or the ability to quickly learn the organization's production processes.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to serve as a liaison with developers, project managers, and customer support.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
- Internal Auditor certification is strongly preferred.
- SAP experience is strongly preferred.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline required.
- Three to five years of related experience required; five to ten years of experience is preferred.
- Supervision and leadership experience are preferred.
Physical Requirements:• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift to 15 pounds at times.
