Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Primary Purpose of Position :

This position will lead quality projects engaging plant operations, and suppliers leveraging problem-solving techniques to improve and sustain plant quality performance metrics. As a key driver of quality improvements within the site, this role has a direct impact on the business and customers with a top loss focus for improvement.

Organizational Relationship :

This position reports directly to the Senior Quality Assurance Manager.

Supervision Responsibilities :

This role will have direct supervision of approximately 10 quality technicians.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities :

• Lead quality improvement projects around scrap, customer complaints, plant and supplier nonconforming material.
• Manage corrective / preventive action items.
• Support the development and implementation of a quality management system.
• Manage supplier SCAR process and drive improvement in current program.
• Support reviews on quality performance metrics identifying and driving improvements with the use of data analytics and problem-solving tools
• Participate in quality performance and project status reviews of quality projects
• Assist in validation of the implementation of corrective actions across our value stream when needed, to assess the effectiveness of improvements
• Support deployment of risk mitigation activities to identify proactively and address potential quality risks
• Monitor operational metrics, and customer / supplier performance promptly to address potential issues.
• Develops Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps applying methods to reduce process variation that reduce or eliminate the cause of defects.
• Advocate for change as we formalize a quality management system impacting plant departments such as Maintenance, Process Engineering, Tooling & Production.

Internal Coding : INDHP

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Education and Experience

Physical Requirements

Working Conditions