Engineer Quality II

Job Title: Engineer Quality II 35192

Description:

• Provides quality planning, control, and improvement support for product development teams, manufacturing engineering, supply management, and manufacturing and/or distribution organizations to assure Company product quality meets the customers' expectations.
• This includes the application of quality tools within the Enterprise Product Delivery Process (EPDP), Enterprise Order Fulfillment Process (EOFP) and Customer Support Process (CSP).
• Also supports application of quality tools with key suppliers as an integral element of quality planning.

Responsibilities:

• Participates on PDP (Product Delivery Process) teams as the Quality representative, ensuring quality activities and plans are formulated and followed.
• Engages in applying/leading Quality tools in Product Delivery Process (PDP) teams. Encourages early interaction of both customer and supplier input to team activities.
• Participates in Design Process and Assembly Reviews (DPARs), print reviews, and design reviews of new products.
• Monitors and facilitates quality activities for part approval, verifies manufacturing processes (control plans, assembly instructions) and confirms process capability.
• Uses quality tools and practices to establish approval criteria to ensure the identification of quality failure concerns for both internal and external manufactured parts and assemblies.
• An example is Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Investigates unit quality related issues and concerns related to product and processes, gathers and analyzes data, resolves/facilitates resolution and implements corrective action.
• Engages in applying/leading Quality tools on Customer Support Process (CSP), Continuous Improvement (CI), and/or Value Improvement (VI) teams.
• Executes Company Quality Control Plan where implemented.
• Investigates product quality problems, determines root cause for quality problems, gathers and analyzes data and implements corrective action to reduce or eliminate non-value waste resulting from non-conformances, scrap or reclaim.
• Assists in identifying, communicating and resolving supplier quality problems.
• Engages in supplier quality plan formulation as necessary.
• Conducts audits of new and existing suppliers to determine manufacturing capability and adherence to accepted quality practices.
• Drives prevention actions.
• Facilitates and writes quality procedures for the purpose of maintaining/updating the factory quality system and supports quality system audits, reviews results with audit team, and participates in management review meetings.
• Provides training and/or supervision to co-workers, inspectors, technicians and auditors on quality procedures and tools to monitor critical processes to assure consistent control and/or to implement cost-saving ideas to improve our products to meet customer expectations.
• Investigate quality issues related to product and processes, gather and analyze data to determine root cause.
• Use quality tools and practices to establish approval criteria to ensure the identification of quality concerns.
• Provide work direction to inspectors and auditors on containment, quality procedures and tools to monitor critical processes.
• Help to identify Continuous Improvement projects (CI)

Shift:

• 3rd shift role - onsite

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in an engineering field or equivalent work experience

What Skills You Need:

• 1 or more years of related experience which may include manufacturing, quality engineering or supply management in a design/manufacturing environment
• Comfortable working with assembly operators to resolve their quality related concerns.
• Knowledge of standard quality tools (Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Root Cause Analysis, 8D, Statistics)
• Ability to lead with minimal supervision to aggressively solve quality issues
• Ability to understand design drawings with basic understanding of GD&T
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Excellent facilitation skills
• Must work well within a team environment

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Experience with an automotive-style assembly process and vehicle systems (high)
• Knowledge of Pro/E, Creo modeling software to review design models and assemblies (medium)
• Knowledge of SAP-PAG (medium)
• Knowledge of Company Equipment (low)
• Experience with Lean manufacturing (low)