The Role
Supports quality systems and compliance in an iron foundry by maintaining PFMEAs, control plans, work instructions, and inspection methods. Leads root cause analysis, corrective actions, SPC, measurement system analysis, PPAP, supplier quality activities, and continuous improvement. Analyzes scrap, rework, dimensional variation, and customer returns while collaborating with operations, engineering, suppliers, and customers to improve quality, capability, throughput, and cost.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Quality Engineer supports and improves product, process, and system quality within an iron foundry environment. This role ensures that castings meet customer, regulatory, and industry requirements by leading quality systems activities, driving root cause analysis, and strengthening process capability. The Quality Engineer collaborates closely with operations, engineering, suppliers, and customers to maintain and elevate performance.
How You Will Help
Quality Systems & Compliance
- Maintain and improve core quality system documents, including Control Plans, PFMEAs, and inspection methods.
- Author and update work instructions, test methods, standard operating procedures, and other quality documentation.
- Support Management of Change (MOC), including validation, qualification, and documentation.
Root Cause Analysis & Corrective Actions
- Lead structured problem solving using 8D, 5-Why, Fishbone, and similar methodologies.
- Own corrective action activities, ensuring timely closure, robust verification, and effectiveness checks.
Process Capability & Measurement
- Improve process capability by designing SPC strategies, control charts, and sampling plans.
- Conduct Measurement System Analysis (MSA) including Gage R&R, and optimize measurement techniques and equipment selection.
New Product Introduction & Customer Requirements
Lead or support PPAP activities, including PSW preparation, dimensional reports, capability studies, and validation documentation.
Lead or support PPAP activities, including PSW preparation, dimensional reports, capability studies, and validation documentation.
- Interpret customer specifications, inspection requirements, and special characteristics; ensure compliance across the manufacturing process.
Supplier Quality
- Support supplier quality activities, including incoming inspection plans, SCAR management, performance tracking, and supplier auditing.
- Partner with suppliers to resolve nonconformities and drive continuous improvement.
Data Analysis & Continuous Improvement
- Utilize data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities in scrap, rework, dimensional variation, and customer returns.
- Participate in or lead Continuous Improvement projects focusing on quality, throughput, and cost reduction within the foundry process.
What You Will Bring
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Manufacturing Technology, or related field; equivalent foundry/quality experience considered.
- Working knowledge of APQP, SPC, PFMEA, and Control Plans.
- Strong analytical capabilities and proficiency in Microsoft Office; familiarity with statistical software is a plus.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional teamwork skills.
Preferred
- Experience with ISO 9001 or similar quality management systems.
- Experience with metals manufacturing, machining, or foundry processes.
- Knowledge of casting and machining processes (green sand, pattern design, metallurgy, CNC, etc.).
Physical and Work Environment Requirements
- Daily interaction with production areas including melting, molding, finishing, and machining.
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs and use measurement instruments (calipers, micrometers, CMM interfaces, etc.) safely.
About
Bringing together more than 175 years of innovation, quality, and customer commitment under one name and one promise.The company was forged in 1850, as American industry was being connected by pipe, valves, fittings, and the skilled people who knew how to put them in the right place. More than 175 years later, that heritage lives in ASC Engineered Solutions, a comprehensive pipe preparation, joining, hanging and flow-management portfolio supporting the people who build and maintain commercial buildings, industrial facilities, infrastructure, and critical systems. A house of brands, Anvil, Gruvlok, Sharpe, SCI, and ABZ, unified as ASC in 2019, and the portfolio has grown in the years since.In 1920, Reliable Automatic Sprinkler started doing one thing exceptionally well: building the fire safety systems that protect people and property. Sprinklers, valves, and accessories, made in the United States. More than a century later, the discipline has not changed. A century of American-made fire protection products, with multi-generational customer relationships and multi-decade specifications. A century of protecting what matters the most.Two legacies. One Future.*Reliable Safety and Flow Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.*
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Manufacturing Technology, or a related field; equivalent foundry or quality experience may be considered.
- Working knowledge of APQP, SPC, PFMEA, and Control Plans.
- Strong analytical capabilities.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional teamwork skills.
- Experience with ISO 9001 or similar quality management systems.
- Experience with metals manufacturing, machining, or foundry processes.
- Knowledge of casting and machining processes, including green sand, pattern design, metallurgy, and CNC.
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds and safely use measurement instruments such as calipers, micrometers, and CMM interfaces.
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The Company
What We Do
Reliable Safety & Flow Corporation provides connected safety and flow systems for people who design, build, operate, and protect the built world. Its products include fire sprinklers, devices, flexible connections, pipe-joining products, flow-control equipment, valves, fittings, hangers, and supports, complemented by digital performance solutions that help turn specifications into installed systems. It serves owners, engineers, contractors, and distributors across commercial, industrial, infrastructure, healthcare, residential, and public-sector markets.
