Quality Assurance Engineer

Provide quality assurance support to plant and customer service.
Individual contributor
Supports manufacturing plant with quality assurance support to ensure product is built in accordance with customer and company specifications while maintaining smooth production flow.
Supervise and oversee activities and responsibilities of direct reports.

Responsibilities

Ensure that product quality is attained through fulfillment by following workmanship standards and quality program requirements.
Identifies and reports quality problems.
Recommends and implements preventive and corrective action to quality and/or manufacturing issues.
Reviews all related quality documentation and approves as appropriate to ensure product quality.
Generates leads and implements defect-reduction activities.
Works with manufacturing and purchasing to process all material rejects.
Works with vendors on non-conformances as well as material improvements.
Works with customer service to find resolution to customer issues.
Provide product support to outside sales.
Contributes to all process/product improvement implementations.
Facilitate brain storming activities

Qualifications

Ability to lead continuous improvement project
Ability to participate and/or facilitate Kaizen events.
Possess a Six Sigma Black Belt Certification.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Understands and can demonstrate knowledge of LeanSigma methodologies.
Experience in supervision.
ASQ Certifications

Education

• BS degree in Engineering or 3 years of quality engineering or manufacturing experience.