Position Details:

Title: Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Location: Albany, NY

Shift: Monday – Friday | 1st Shift

Compensation: $60K - $80K annually (depending on experience)

Benefits: a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, Life and Disability Insurance, as well as 2 weeks PTO, 56 sick hours, and paid holidays.

Travel: No Travel

Position Description | Manufacturing Quality Engineer

As the Manufacturing Quality Engineer, you will lead the Company's Quality Program at the plant level to ensure the product delivered to customers meets internal quality standards with regard to standard assembly processes, Mandatory/General assembly specifications, final inspections standard, work-in process standards and raw material standards.

• Ensure standard operating procedures are sustained in the assembly processes.
• Manage the implementation of new processes and procedures regarding the introduction of new products or equipment.
• Coordinate with other plants to develop and implement standard operating procedures for all assembly and quality processes.
• Develop and implement improved standard procedures through the lean process and tools; document so improved process can become organization standard.
• Ensure equipment is capable of meeting required product quality standards and can repeatedly reproduce these results.
• Ensure that the proper training of all pertinent personnel on standard operating procedures is performed.
• Train supervision on newly introduced assembly procedures in the general specifications.
• Train associates in standard inspection procedures and process audit techniques.
• Validate accurate work-in-process and finished goods defect tracking.
• Validate accurate returned goods and rejected piece defect tracking.
• Perform periodic audit of finished products.
• Perform periodic audit of work-in-process records.
• Audit of adherence to bills of material.
• Statistical analysis of collected data, tracking defect back to process, cell, material or individual.
• Facilitate and promote use of appropriate problem-solving techniques for effective root cause analysis and successful corrective action.
• Recommend process improvements to plant management.
• Participate in quality reporting and management review process.
• Manage quality metrics and present findings and recommendations to the management review team.
• Provide engineering support to operations ensuring consistent application of quality techniques.
• Effective use of change management tools and techniques to assure buy-in from all stakeholders to the processes and systems in the plant.
• Participate in customer meetings and visits; answer customer complaints using an 8D or any other approved formats.
• Enable the use of SQSCM boards.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate has a degree in Engineering or a related field as well as 5 years' experience in Process/Manufacturing Engineering or Quality Assurance in plant environment. You should also possess Prior supervision experience and process improvement knowledge in a manufacturing environment such as Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, etc. to drive operational excellence systems. Lastly, strong computer skills for Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, Excel; Minitab or other statistical software packages is necessary to excel in this role.