Direct Hire
Description for 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.
Responsibilities for Quality Engineer:
- 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
- Lead the efforts to gather, organize, monitor, analyze and report on 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 deploy SPC initiatives internally and at suppliers
- Evaluate and make recommendations on critical supplier selections and drives supplier continuous improvement processes, including leading on-site audits, evaluating prototypes, and reviewing and approving of supplier corrective actions
- Develop new procedural controls to address all aspects of quality programs
- Develop and generate statistical reports on inspection activities and results, new product or process testing results, etc and recommends action as required
- Establish programs to evaluate the precision and accuracy of production and processing equipment and testing, measurement, and analytical methods
- Ability to mentor quality technicians and/or inspectors
- Monitor and mentor intern quality engineers
- Provide regular reporting of progress and status
- Specialties may include:
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Supplier Quality Engineering
- Maintains focus on continuous improvement by applying 80/20, PLS, and USa principles/techniques and makes process improvement recommendations to management
Requirements for Quality Engineer:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field and a minimum of 5 years engineering experience within a manufacturing setting
- Proficient with ISO 9001 Standards, Six Sigma tools, statistics
- Experience with the following methods: 8D, Root-Cause Analysis (RCA), A3, 5Why, and Pareto Analysis
- Proficient in APQP
- Proficient in Excel
- Ability to read blueprints
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, communication and writing skills
- Ability to define problems and drive to root cause and effective corrective action
Desired Skills for Quality Engineer:
- ASQ certification or Six Sigma Green Belt or higher preferred
- Experience with IATF 16949 and AIAG Core Tools
