What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Engineer position at Blackstone Products?
Description
Essential Functions:
- Ensure that product integrity and quality align with company standards and customer expectations
- Establish quality criteria for each product model
- Perform root cause analysis, quality-related experiments and statistical studies
- Create test procedures and sampling plans
- Conduct tests, pull and inspect samples according to established procedures
- Track, review, and examine trends in test data
- Become familiar with the requirements and testing procedures in the ANSI Z21.58-2018 CSA 1.6-2018, and ANSI Z21.89 -2017 CSA 1.18-2017 industry standards
- Coordinate problem-solving and process improvement activities to assure quality products and reduce the cost of poor quality
- Work with factories to create and implement corrective action plans
- Answer questions regarding quality internally and externally
- Provide technical guidance to and communicate effectively with worldwide factories
- Travels both domestically and internationally to support product and customer needs (less than 10% of time)
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field
- 5 years of relevant quality engineer experience
- Knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management systems, preferred
- Able to interpret a variety of technical instructions in written, mathematical, or diagram form and understand several abstract and concrete variables
- Statistical abilities, including designing experiments and sampling plans
- Ability to perform root cause analysis
- Familiarity with inspection, testing, and measurement tools
- Clear communication skills (oral, written, and presentation), including communicating technical information
- Ability to work well in a team environment, both as team member and leader
- Problem-solving skills, including the ability to facilitate group problem-solving
- Project management and organizational skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including professional Excel capabilities
- Lean Six Sigma certification is a plus
- Experience with outdoor cooking equipment or liquid propane products is a plus
- As we are an outdoor cooking company, any cooking experience is a plus
