Quality Engineer

Description

Position Summary:

Quality:  Participate in resolving issues in Supplier Approvals, Root cause Analysis, Production/Process Support, Engineering and Product Reliability.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None at this time.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supplier Quality:
  • Create or update Inspection Plans for received product, including first articles.
  • Communicate product related problems to our supplies via KSI’s Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs).
  • Monitor and report on supplier performance ratings.
  • Qualify new suppliers.
• Production Support Quality:
  • Create and monitor quantitative data related quality problems in production.
  • Conduct “root cause” investigations concerning quality issues.
  • Coordinate Corrective Action Plans (CAP’s) to eliminate root causes and lead the bi-weekly corrective action committee meetings
  • Ensure that all finished good products follow a Final Acceptance Testing (FAT) sheet review.
• Product Reliability:
  • Participate in new product design development to ensure reliability and maintainability is incorporated into the products design.
  • Conduct initial product qualification tests on new products to ensure reliability and maintainability are incorporated into the products design.
  • Conduct ongoing qualification testing to ensure design, supplier, and production quality is maintained throughout the existence of the product.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Equipment To Be Used:

Computers, telephones, development systems, Engineering software, and test equipment.

Typical Physical Demands:

• Sit, stand, walk, lift, bend, and reach.
• Drive a car/SUV day or night. 
• Specific vision abilities require close vision and the ability to focus.
• Travel the United States via car or airplane and infrequently internationally as the job may demand depending on partners.
• Frequently lift ten (10) pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to sixty (60) pounds and occasionally lift and/or move in excess of sixty (60) pounds using lifting aids, technologies, or appropriate assistance.

Typical Mental Demands:

• Must be able to perform complex math calculations.
• Must be able to gather and analyze quantitative and qualitative data.
• Must be able to write technical documentation.
• Ability to effectively present information to customers and other employees of the organization.

Working Conditions:

• Quiet, temperature-controlled, typical office environment. 
• A typical workweek will include eight (8) hours per day, five (5) days a week.
• Must work some evenings and weekends.

Travel:

Up to 20% travel to customers’ sites via car or airplane.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• B. S. in a Manufacturing related discipline (i.e., Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a similar Quality discipline) with 3 years of related work experience in a quality engineering position (i.e., Quality Engineer, Supplier Quality Engineer, etc.)
• Experience in concurrent engineering processes, with some level of engineering development validation.

Skills:                                                                                                                                       

• Quality Control Systems and statistical techniques.  ISO9000 implementation experience.
• Lean/Six-Sigma experience
• Microsoft Office Proficient
• Must possess strong interpersonal skills.