Alleima USA LLC is seeking a Quality Engineer in its Clarks Summit location:
The Quality Engineer will play a key role in ensuring product integrity, process consistency, and regulatory compliance within a heavy industrial steel manufacturing environment. Leveraging experience from the highly regulated nuclear sector, this role will focus on strengthening quality systems, improving process controls, driving root cause investigations, and advancing a culture of safety, precision, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Systems & Compliance
- Apply nuclear‑grade quality standards (e.g., NQA‑1, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B principles) to steel manufacturing processes, documentation, and control plans.
- Maintain and improve ISO 9001–based Quality Management System elements, ensuring consistent implementation across production lines.
- Support compliance with customer specifications, industry codes, and material certification requirements (e.g., ASTM, ASME, API).
Process Control & Continuous Improvement
- Analyze production processes to identify sources of variation and implement corrective actions using Lean, Six Sigma, FMEA, SPC, and error‑proofing methodologies.
- Develop and optimize inspection plans, test procedures, and quality checkpoints for raw materials, in‑process work, and finished steel products.
- Lead or support cross‑functional Kaizen events, yield‑improvement projects, and scrap‑reduction initiatives.
Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Actions
- Conduct structured problem‑solving using methodologies such as 5‑Why, RCA, Cause‑and‑Effect, Fault Tree Analysis, or Apollo.
- Develop and implement effective corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), verify effectiveness, and ensure documentation accuracy.
Technical Quality Support
- Support metallurgical investigations, mechanical testing, and materials characterization activities to address product quality issues.
- Collaborate with engineering, operations, and maintenance teams to validate process changes, equipment updates, and new product introductions.
- Review engineering drawings, specifications, and manufacturing work instructions for quality impact.
Auditing & Supplier Quality
- Lead or participate in internal process audits to verify procedural compliance and identify improvement opportunities.
- Support supplier qualification, incoming material inspection processes, and supplier corrective action management.
Documentation & Reporting
- Prepare quality reports, dashboards, non‑conformance summaries, and customer documentation packages.
- Maintain thorough, traceable records consistent with nuclear‑industry rigor and steel‑industry requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (e.g., Mechanical, Materials, Industrial, Metallurgical) or related technical field.
- 3–7+ years of quality engineering experience, preferably in nuclear, heavy manufacturing, steel, metals, or similar regulated industries.
- Experience with ASME, ASTM codes, ISO 9001 standards
- Strong understanding of quality tools (SPC, FMEA, MSA, control plans) and structured problem‑solving.
- Demonstrated experience with ISO 9001 or NQA‑1–based quality programs.
- Ability to interpret technical drawings, welding symbols, and material specifications.
- Lead Auditor certification
Additional Preferred Qualifications
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
- Familiarity with metallurgical testing, mechanical properties, and nondestructive examination (NDE/NDT).
- Experience supporting audits or working within highly regulated environments.
- Proficiency in quality software (e.g., Minitab, SAP QM, SPC tools).
Other Skills
- Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to influence operations teams.
- Proactive, hands‑on approach to problem‑solving in a production environment.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced industrial setting
Additional Information
Alleima offers outstanding compensation package for Benefits and 401(k), paid time off program, paid holidays.
At Alleima, our mission is much more than delivering high-quality products, technology, and processes - working together to develop solutions based on our customer’s needs and thus achieve our business goals, is a better way to describe our daily work. With curious employees and safety as our priority, we create a work environment where you can develop both personally and professionally.
With a clear direction for our journey ahead, utilizing our position as a technology leader, progressive customer partner, and sustainability driver, we aim to become an even stronger company in our industry.
Are you ready to take on this challenge together with us? Join us on our journey! www.alleima.com
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What We Do
Alleima is a global manufacturer of high value-added products in advanced stainless steels and special alloys as well as solutions for industrial heating. Based on long-term customer partnerships and leading materials technology, we develop products for the most demanding applications and industries.
Our offering includes products like seamless steel tubes for the energy, chemical and aerospace industry, precision strip steel for white goods compressors, air conditioners and knife applications, based on more than 900 active alloy recipes. It also includes ultra-fine wires for medical and micro-electronic devices, industrial electric heating technology and coated strip steel for fuel cells technology for cars, trucks, and hydrogen production.
The fully integrated value chain, from R&D to end-product, ensures industry-leading technology, quality, sustainability, and circularity.
For more than 100 years, Alleima has recycled steel and today products consist of in average 83% recycled materials. Our arc furnaces use fossil free energy, and the CO2 emissions are low.
Alleima has approximately 5,900 employees an customers in approximately 90 countries
