What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Engineer position at Elkhart Brass?
Meet the Smart Safety Company
At Safe Fleet our name says it all – we are redefining what Fleet Safety means with one-stop access to customized, integrated, and intelligent solutions that answer today’s safety needs and anticipate tomorrow’s challenges. By making fleets smarter, we make them safer.
We’ve worked to build an integrated safety platform for fleet vehicles of every type – School Bus, Transit, Fire, EMS, Law Enforcement, Work Truck, Truck & Trailer, Waste & Recycling, Industrial, and Military.
We’re driving safety forward in everything we do and we’re looking for innovative, enthusiastic self-starters to join us.
Work for the Smart Safety Company
The Quality Engineer will be responsible for planning and directing activities concerned with development, application, and maintenance of quality standards for industrial processes, materials, and products by performing the following duties.
Summary
- Customer and Supplier Quality
- Communicate with customers and suppliers on quality related concerns, quality systems improvement, and continuous improvement projects
- Coordinate activities for customer production part submission and approval (PPAP)
- Coordinate activities for supplier part submission and approval
- Coordinate safe launch activities
- Problem Solving
- Lead problem solving activities to address customer and internal quality concerns
- Facilitate supplier activities to address quality concerns
- Lead and participate in problem solving activities to address deficiencies in production performance vs. goals
- Communicate with external and internal customers to resolve production performance issues
- Continuous Improvement
- Lead and participate in proactive continuous improvement activities including scrap reduction and cost reduction
- Contribute waste elimination suggestions and variation reduction initiatives
- Quality Standards
- Work with customers and suppliers to establish visual and functional quality standards
- Quality Systems
- Create and maintain quality system documentation including work instructions, control plans, and check sheets
- Participate in development and maintenance of FMEAs
- Lead or participate in internal audit functions
- Other duties as assigned
- Must be willing to travel occasionally to customer and supplier locations
- Train associates to quality standards and processes
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At Safe Fleet, you are empowered to build a career that will take you where you want to go. You'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the tools necessary to achieve personal success. We offer a comprehensive compensation package, including Medical, Dental, 401K and bonuses.
We're a background check and pre-hire drug screen company where allowed by law.
