Quality Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title : Quality Engineer

Department : Quality

Reports To : Operations Manager

Job Status : Full-time

FLSA Classification :

Exempt

Schedule :

7 a.m. – 4 : 30 p.m. Monday – Thursday, 7 a.m. – 11 a.m. Friday

Salary Range :

70,000 - $110,000 annually

Tectran Manufacturing Inc. is an industry-leading manufacturer and marketer of air, hydraulic, and electrical systems for the transportation industry. The primary market focus includes the heavy-duty tractor trailer and bus industries. Our commitment to quality and durability assures us a leading-edge in product designs and superior performance for demanding market applications. We hold several patents and make it a practice to listen closely to the needs of the customer.

Job Summary

We are currently looking for an individual to contribute their first-rate skills as Quality Engineer, a newly created role within our Quality Department. The candidate in this position will need to possess Quality Control techniques to improve manufacturing process reliability, remedy non-conforming product issues, address customer needs, and ensure compliance with all company and industry standards. Duties will include supporting the Department’s role in new products and material evaluations. The person in this role will play a substantial role in the continuous development and improvement of Tectran’s Quality Management System.

Responsibilities :

• Assist in supervising compliance to all standards and specifications including ISO-9001, DOT, FMVSS and SAE standards as well as product regulatory requirements to Calif Prop 65, Reach, GADSL, RoHS, TSCA, and Conflict Minerals Reporting
• Create, revise, distribute, and file manufacturing instructions, standard procedures, process specifications, forms, and visual standards. Ensure the latest revision is controlled and used
• Manage the non-conforming process. Facilitate non-conforming material (NCMR) disposition. Contain stock; coordinate rework activity (includes training, quality alerts and visual aids). Verify conformance to customer requirements. Support Material Review Board (MRB)
• Manage the corrective action process. Facilitate correction action procedure (CAR). Write C.A.R.; support interim action, root cause, corrective action, preventative action, and implementation. Perform verification
• Determine and develop new inspection / verification methods and tooling as needed to support new and existing product requirements. Provide training as necessary
• Manage the Quality System Audit process. Perform process and Quality System audits
• Perform quality inspections and testing as needed
• Participate in improving our product, processes, equipment, and methods. Solicit product and process improvement ideas and report to supervision and management
• Write Technical Product Specifications and Data charts as needed for use in marketing and customer communications and / or Tectran web site
• Support and perform customer specific requirements including first article inspection, creating PPAP documentation and performing prototype testing
• Perform inspection and testing (failure analysis) on product returns to determine root cause of problem and generate reports to management
• Communicate with our domestic and foreign suppliers regarding new product evaluations and existing product quality concerns
• Update periodic quality graphs and performance indicator reports including scrap counts, non-conforming material analysis and customer complaint log
• Perform additional tasks that may be assigned by management

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TECTRAN is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, genetic information, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants are given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Salary : $70,000 - $110,000