Description
Great Lakes Industrial YOUR FIRST CHOICE FOR ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS- Title: Quality Engineer
- Location: Great Lakes Headquarters - 6150 N Flint Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53209
- Job Type: Full Time /Salary
- Travel: <1%
- Pay: $60,000 - $65,000
- Reports to: Operations Manager (Nick Prorok)
Quality Engineer:
The Quality Engineer is an integral position in Great Lakes Industrial as it connects our vendors to our warehouse to our sales team and our customers. The position involves designing quality standards, inspecting materials, equipment, processes, and products, developing products and materials, and developing quality controls. We expect our quality engineer to be responsive, independent, personable, communicative, and collaborative. As the engineer grows, they will develop long-standing relationships with our customers, vendors, management team, warehouse employees, and inside staff, as well as become an expert in GLI’s internal systems and all roles in the office.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Functions:
- Provide material selection and recommendation
- Design product shape and sizing recommendations for optimal application performance
- Apply design standards to customer applications, including gland design and mating interactions
- Provide engineering recommendation for technical quotes
- Conduct installation design and analysis
- Write clear and professional installation guides to customer applications
- Handle all customer quality issues and provide root-cause analysis and solutions
- Develop design ideas based on customer interests, budgets, and market research
- Conduct both virtual and on-site product trainings
- Support sales staff by reviewing customer application and recommend course of action
- Conduct both in-process and development testing for improved product recommendation
- Produce and distribute engineering documents, including PPAPs, PFMEAs, PCPs, and Gage R&Rs
- Produce standard and customer compliance documents
- Help company pass all internal and external audits, including ISO 9001
Requirements
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
Competencies:
A Quality Engineer must have passion for working with our customers, our vendors, and our team to improve our internal and external quality processes, while identifying opportunities to help design and create product and testing to be able to help our internal processes and our customers. He/she must be able to multi-task and be able to change gears quickly and effectively.
As GLI is looking to advance and grow, the Quality Engineer also must be able to adapt to new requirements and see change as a challenge, as a growth opportunity, and not a requirement.
Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent math and spatial reasoning skills, with the ability to read and understand prints, assembly drawings, tolerances, and stack-up.
- Ability to use engineering tools to create drawings, develop GLI capabilities, and use data collection and measurement tools.
- Ability to write clear and effective reports utilizing formal methodology such as 8D.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills for effective interface with all internal and external contacts
- Detail-oriented with demonstrated organizational and multitasking skills a must
- Team player who is assertive, goal-oriented, positive, and self-motivated
- High level of Integrity
- Ability to rapidly build knowledge of our systems and our customers’ practices
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills for effective interface with all internal and external contacts
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Chemical, Mechanical Engineering, or Physics required
Experience: 0-3+ Years of Quality or Design Engineering-related work
Computer Skills: Excel and Word, CAD software is a plus
Certificates & Licenses (Nice to have): Six-Sigma
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Chemical, Mechanical Engineering, or Physics
- 0-3+ years of Quality or Design Engineering-related work
- Proficiency with Excel
- Proficiency with Word
- CAD software
- Knowledge and production of PPAPs, PFMEAs, PCPs, and Gage R&R
- Ability to perform root-cause analysis and write reports using 8D methodology
- Ability to read and interpret prints, assembly drawings, tolerances, and stack-up
- Experience conducting in-process and development testing and producing engineering documents
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Six Sigma certification
What We Do
Great Lakes Industrial is a family-owned industrial service provider specializing in innovative engineering, sealing solutions, manufacturing, kitting, packaging, and inventory management for equipment manufacturers.
