Quality Engineer

Provide, implement and administer quality control, process and continuous improvement programs within the facility. Quality Engineer (QE) works directly for the Quality Manager and supports the facility, using various methods of testing and inspection. The Quality Engineers is involved in developing and implementing systems to ensure products or services meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations. This position may include a mixture of the functions below to be determined upon hire.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help
enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions Statement(s)
Understand and execute quality philosophies, principles, systems, risk, methods, tools, standards, organizational and team dynamics, customer expectations and satisfaction, supplier relations and performance, leadership, training, interpersonal relationships, improvement systems, and professional ethics.
Understand and execute the quality system, including its development, documentation, and implementation with respect to domestic and international standards or requirements.
Develop and manage quality programs, including tracking, analyzing, reporting, and problem solving.
Establish, promote, and execute product and process quality, quality principles, including planning processes, material control, acceptance sampling, and measurement systems.
Maintain a complete knowledge of reliability, maintainability, and risk management, including key terms and definitions, modeling, systems design, assessment tools, and reporting.
Manage, plan, control, implement, and assure process and/or project application, readiness, and requirements.
Completely understand and employ problem-solving and quality improvement tools and techniques, including knowledge of management and planning tools, quality tools, preventive and corrective actions, and how to overcome barriers to quality improvements.
Design and implement methods for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection.
Identify, acquire, and analyze data using appropriate standard quantitative methods across a spectrum of business environments to facilitate process analysis and improvements.
Understand and execute the audit process including types of audits, planning, preparation, execution, reporting results, and follow-up.

Review customers purchase orders, contracts and change requests and ensure that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in quality and process plans.
Review suppliers purchase orders and establish supplier quality requirements.
Compile, write, and deliver training material on quality standards and activities.
Understand and execute basic calibration determinations and functions.
Monitor and test quality of processes to ensure compliance with standards, identify issues, recommend and help implement solutions and create quality documentation.
Work with production and operation teams to problem solve quality and/or production related issues to reduce internal non-conformances, prevent external non-conformances and improve first pass yield.
Participate in and help drive root cause and corrective actions investigations and implementations.
Assist in new product introduction and new process development
Assist in new process introductions, including specification review, gap analysis and PFMEA activity
Ability to interpret blueprint and drawings.
· Other duties as assigned