Quality Engineer

We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Quality/Product Engineer to join our team. This position is responsible for the design, development and testing of new products, as well as the improvement of existing ones. Ensures products meet customer’s needs and are produced efficiently. Will often collaborate closely with design, marketing, and manufacturing teams to bring a product to market successfully. Key responsibilities include prototyping, quality control and technical documentation.

Responsibilities

- Support product launches company wide

- Assists with the development of control plans

- Participate in design reviews, tooling, gaging, and outside approval process

- Conduct quality audits as needed

- Conduct analysis to ensure product performance meets requirements and safety standards.

- Collaborate with manufacturing teams to optimize production processes and identify cost-effective solutions

- Implement quality assurance measures to ensure product consistency and reliability

- Create technical documentation including product specifications, user manuals, and design reports

- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; bench marking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

- Makes decisions independently on engineering problems and methods and represents the organization in conferences to resolve important questions and to plan and coordinate work.

- Assist with customer issues related to Quality issues. May have to make on-site customer visits to resolve issue(s).

- May perform source inspections and/or surveys, involving visits to a supplier’s facility to evaluate adherence to the company’s quality requirements for products or systems.

- Assist the Purchasing Team, in developing and maintaining suppliers, including assisting on supplier Quality issues (when necessary). May be called upon to approve suppliers and to assist on a variety of projects, processes, and quality improvements.

- Assists in identifying the root causes of problem(s) and instituting corrective action. Active participant in 8D/”5 Why’s” problem solving root cause analysis team.

- Assist in development, implementation and maintenance of a quality system that complies with ISO 9001 / IATF 16949 / ISO 14001 requirements.

- Assist in investigating practices, procedures, and performing internal quality systems audits to determine quality standards and whether these standards are being met.

- Assists with the evaluation of gage R&R and the review of APQP documentation.

- Assists with SPC data collection, training, and analysis.

- Reviews quality trends based on quality data system information and interaction with inspectors and production personnel and participates in the generation and implementation of defect-reduction programs for his or her assigned product or program.

- Reviews manufacturing instructions for completeness, correctness, and comprehension by production employees.

- Audit processes performed by production employees relative to methods, tools, ability, to follow manufacturing instructions.

- Assist with customer environmental requirements at product launch (including IMDS, RoHS, REACH, etc.)

- Other responsibilities as assigned by Engineering Manager

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field

- ASQ certification (prefer CQE or CQM)

- Formal training in quality tools: DOE, Six Sigma, mistake proofing, CMM

- Excellent communication skills (will deal with customers and employees)

- Able to work well under pressure of deadlines

- Computer literate (word processing, spreadsheet, Internet, e-mail, ProE, AutoCad)

- Ability to work well under pressure of deadlines and manage and complete multiple tasks

- Accuracy and detail orientations.

- Familiarity with engineering terms such as: blueprints, control plans