What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Engineer position at Instrument Development Corp.?
The Quality Engineer assists the Quality Assurance Manager with developing standards within the department as well as the managing of processes, manufacturing methods, and procedures.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :
- Work with Customers, Sales and Engineering on APQP activities for new program.
- Review GD&T, SC's, KPC's, and gauging methodology with customers on new programs.
- Work with suppliers & customers on quality concerns. Conducts investigations on non-conformance and recommends corrective action to prevent reoccurrence.
- Work with Manufacturing to solve in-house quality concerns, review nonconforming product and recommend disposition.
- Interpret detailed blueprints, work orders, engineering specifications, and routing sheets to determine production standards and tolerance limits.
- Determine quality improvement parameters by identifying statistical methods relevant to manufacturing processes.
- Establish statistical confidence by identifying sample size and acceptable error; determining levels of confidence.
- Develop sampling plans by applying attribute, variable, and sequential sampling methods.
- Analyze data by completing hypothesis, normal distribution, and process capability analysis tests.
- Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and making recommendations.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establish personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participate in professional societies; maintaining American Society of Quality Control Certified Quality Engineer qualification.
- Practice safe working methods.
- Communicate with management any deviations of tolerances and quality.
- Assist in addressing and resolving production problems causing deviations from existing standards.
- Lead and / or assist in Corrective Actions and Root Cause Analysis.
- Write complex CMM programs using PC-DMIS and calypso software
- Coach / train Quality Inspectors as needed on CMM, gaging, procedures, etc.
- Complete all required records and paperwork.
- Research, develop, and coordinate new inspection methods and practices with the Quality Manager.
- Determine pass / fail on visual criteria under magnification and understands and can operate microscope.
Qualifications :
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Work Environment :
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.
The above statements reflect the general details necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work that is involved in this position.
