What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Engineer position at Guardian Industries?
Your Job
The right person for this role is enthusiastic about creating value through collaboration with other teams and capabilities, across the plant and region, to ensure superior results through continuous product and process improvement. This person must be able to learn quickly, troubleshoot through challenges with various teams and stay professional and positive. This is a hands-on position that will work across the organization.
Our Team
Our team must be able to apply what we know, while also considering new opinions, options, and opportunities to ensure our competitive advantage in the marketplace. We expect our team members to respectfully challenge our processes to find new ways to create value, while seeking out mutual benefit for our teams, ourselves, and our customers.
What You Will Do
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
The right person for this role is enthusiastic about creating value through collaboration with other teams and capabilities, across the plant and region, to ensure superior results through continuous product and process improvement. This person must be able to learn quickly, troubleshoot through challenges with various teams and stay professional and positive. This is a hands-on position that will work across the organization.
Our Team
Our team must be able to apply what we know, while also considering new opinions, options, and opportunities to ensure our competitive advantage in the marketplace. We expect our team members to respectfully challenge our processes to find new ways to create value, while seeking out mutual benefit for our teams, ourselves, and our customers.
What You Will Do
- Develop a thorough understanding of glass manufacturing (float) and fabrication (coating, tempering, offline cutting) fundamentals, including potential failure modes.
- Coordinate with the Quality Manager and DeWitt team members to investigate and resolve plant and customer quality concerns through structured problem-solving, including containment, remediation, root cause analysis, and corrective action.
- Support the DeWitt team in meeting KPI goals by working as “One Team” to reduce sources of variation in the manufacturing and logistics processes.
- Regularly review the impact of audits and trend results to continue increasing process value.
- Identify and support opportunities for process improvements and work to understand how we can simplify, supporting the achievement of positive results and overall compliance.
- Manage and improve the plant’s document control system.
- Drive a strong customer focus with emphasis on professional, timely, and detailed responses to customer issues.
- Travel for customer visits, up to 10% within the US (primarily local customer visits).
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Data Analytics, Science field or Math field
- Experience with statistical analysis
- Microsoft Office experience to include Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience working with standard quality tools and multiple root cause analysis (RCA) techniques
- Experience working as a process engineer or quality-related role in a manufacturing setting.
- Database and Power BI experience
- Experience in influential leadership, advancing projects and/or project management
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
