Senior Principal Quality Engineer

About Pierce an Oshkosh company

At Pierce Manufacturing we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913 building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized carefully designed and engineering pumpers aerials tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today youll find more than 30000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in peoples lives every day. To us every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.

Senior Principal Quality Engineer R44943

The Senior Principal Engineer Quality performs high level definition analysis and resolution of complex product or process concerns for heavy duty vehicles. Integrates with cross functional teams to develop product and process quality standards. Provides quality planning control and improvement to assure product quality meets customer expectations. Collaborates with organizational level quality leadership. Provides specialty research and development in strategic quality technology and system areas.

YOUR IMPACT
-Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing to ensure quality standards are in place or developed when necessary.
-May work with high-risk investigations to document quality concerns and resolutions involving internal or customer concerns and external regulatory bodies through CAPA SCAR and CARB.
-May specialize in the areas of design incoming material production control product evaluation and reliability inventory control and/or research and development.
-Demonstrate competency in determining the adequacy/comprehensiveness of technical data deviations etc. related to quality requirements

-Provide technical assistance for production support and lead quality spill containment and corrective actions when needed.

-Provide quality system support by improving processes and systems and by updating and creating site procedures.

-Audit quality systems identifying risk and opportunity and implementing corrective action that is effective verifiable and documented.

-Drive activities to reinforce Quality Culture through Quality initiatives systems or processes.

-Provide a Customer Service attitude when interacting with internal and external customers.

-Provide guidance mentorship and training to on topics such as Validation process Root Cause Analysis Statistical techniques SPC CAPA APQP PPAP PFMEA Control Plans etc.
-Will be responsible for overall project schedule and budget.

-Will be responsible for managing multiple priorities.

-Prepare technical proposals quotations reports and presentations.

-Create and maintain project documentation for analysis research and historical records.

-May have exposure to the external customers and/or industry organizations. May supervise exempt and non-exempt personnel as required.

-Research create and update Quality Engineering methodology technology procedures system best practices etc.

-Participate in the budgeting process to include recommending capital improvements and preparing justification data as required.

-Communicate objectives to team members.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in Quality Operations Business Engineering or related field

• 10 plus years of related work experience

STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with applying Quality Engineering Principles during current production and new product development.

• Expert mechanical knowledge of automotive or heavy-vehicle equipment and related systems

• Previous manufacturing with Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) or Tier 1 supplier in the transportation industry

• Six Sigma ASQ or related certification

• Strong ability to interpret basic technical drawings including characteristics such as views title blocks dimensioning GD&T symbols etc. and interpret specification requirements in relation to product and process characteristics

• Background in welding and welding processes.

• Background in paint and paint processes.

• Experience with In-Process Validation (IPV) and Quality Gate supporting Built-in-Quality.

• MS Windows Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Visio Statistical software

• Experience with JDE ERP Power BI

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