Engineer Quality II

Job Title: Engineer Quality II 34944

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.
• Responsible for the creation of the annual budget for the area and the development and maintenance of the necessary operating procedures for the lab.
• Maintain/update existing CMM programs as determined by process engineering or an Engineering Change Request.
• Manage Job Request Priorities for the CMM to ensure timely and accurate results to interested parties.
• Participate in functional geometry reviews and initial sample inspection report reviews as a dimensional metrologist and provide interpretation and guidance on geometric dimensioning and tolerance as pertains to dimensional metrology.
• Work with ME, QE, and Operations personnel to resolve production quality issues pertaining to evaluating part quality and developing manufacturing processes.
• Write, operate, consult, and troubleshoot dimensional metrology engineering programs. Provide programming education at the operating unit for low to moderately complex manufactured parts, using any of a variety of programming languages.
• Ensure compliance with and help create procedures to maintain the unit's quality labs and systems to internal and international standards.
• Demonstrated team leadership skills, including coaching and facilitation.
• Knowledge of standard quality tools such as FMEA (Failure Modes Effect Analysis), SPC (Statistical Process Control), Root Cause Analysis, and Statistics. Knowledge of industry standards for geometric dimension and tolerancing, weld symbols, etc.
• Knowledge of basic data analysis techniques. (e.g., Pareto charts, histograms, pie and bar charts, and control plans.)
• Knowledge of current and emerging metrology products, tools, and concepts.
• Skill in interpersonal communications, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic work environment.
• Experience in supervision and/or management of individuals or teams in a union environment (i.e., Module Leader, Production Supervisor, etc.)
• Experience in welding, manufacturing, design, tooling, or programming.
• Kotem or similar CMM inspection report interpretation, control plan development, or process/product-based risk mitigation.
• Project management experience including creating a plan, coordinating resources, and delivering results.
• Experience with engineering tools, systems, and databases.
• Experience in the use of statistical tools and techniques for quality management. Metrology engineering experience, including the use of metrology tools and techniques.

Shift:

• 1st shift position

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Technology/Science/Math discipline or equivalent experience.

Experience:

• 2-5 years of experience Quality background in a manufacturing environment
• 2-3 Supervisor experience (experience in a wage/union environment preferred)