Position Summary Provide Quality Engineering within a fabrication and assembly manufacturing environment, with direct customer coordination. Leadership position to drive production quality and validation of manufacturing processes. Provides recommendation and coordinates improvement activities within manufacturing departments and serves as an interface for customer’s SQE (Supplier Quality Engr). Ensures process improvements, first articles, coordinates failure analysis on returned product, quality data analysis, and applying effective corrective actions for continuous improvement results. Principal Activities
- Provides quality engineering support within manufacturing environment. Welding processes to support new customer projects.
- Provides direct communication with customers to address product quality escapes, score-card improvement actions, product/equipment qualification actions.
- Participates in Quality System maintenance activities, such as CAPA, Internal/External Audits, Complaints, and other activities as needed.
- Leads quality improvement actions internally to achieve customer targets and expectations.
- Participates within the product development engineering processes, including validation activities, SPC & data analysis, control plans, report writing, and PFMEA’s as needed.
- Participates in print and design reviews. Identify significant characteristics and develop appropriate controls.
- Ensures that the products meet customer and defined regulatory requirements.
- Leads internal support teams on customer issues and communication as necessary on quality related events.
- Introduce and validate process improvements on assigned projects including procedures, QA methodologies, tooling, and equipment.
- Establish new product requirements, prototypes, conduct and oversee testing, risk/failure mode analysis.
- Verification and Failure Analysis of returned product, with required corrective action.
- Devises QA sampling procedures to ensure product quality, with associated quality data for analysis and improvement actions.
- Lead problem solving teams to address identified issues and develop improvement actions.
- Serve on project teams to provide QA oversight for new and revised manufacturing processes.
- Assists in creation and approval of manufacturing procedures via process mapping within product groups
Candidate Qualifications, Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years’ experience in supporting manufacturing, producing industrial products, with some exposure to a welding environment.
- Demonstrated experience in providing direct customer support for organizational quality.
- Strong verbal and written communication, organization, problem-solving and interpersonal skills.
- Must be detailed oriented.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office.
- Must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship, both now and in the future.
