Job Summary:

This position plays a key role in ensuring that the overall quality of a manufactured product is quality tested and meets the standard criteria. The Quality Engineer is responsible for the generation of a strategic plan to improve business processes and increase production output. The tasks required for this role involve documentation that reflects reporting issues and errors with efforts to find a solution. 

Responsibilities:

· Ensure effective implementation and maintenance of the Sargent and Greenleaf ISO certified Quality System including modifications and communication of changes to the organization, monitoring of audit schedules, and facilitating outside certification body audits. 

· Lead investigations into internal and external quality issues using methods such as A3, 5-Why, 8D, 5P, etc.

· Maintain and monitor corrective and preventive action processes including those incurred from audit findings, product non-conformances, and supplier non-conformances.  This position will interact with Sargent and Greenleaf customers and global suppliers.

· Coordinate transition of new/modified component and finished goods product through the validation process with manufacturing and suppliers.

· Support and coordinate reliability testing of the internal and external laboratories for components and finished products.

· Complete statistical studies including gage R&Rs, and capability, pareto and trend analysis to identify manufacturing capability levels and opportunities for improvement within the manufacturing processes.

· Accountable for leadership, decision making, and oversight of the quality systems. 

· Works with and influences key stakeholders to develop and maintain quality standards.

· Implement a working system to ensure conformity and accuracy in the production process.

· Preparing daily, weekly, and monthly quality reports utilizing Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.).

· Provides training for operators and staff on interim and permanent corrective actions put in place.

  Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

· Implementation of LEAN/Six Sigma methodologies (Green Belt certification desired) including 5S, SMED, Value Stream Mapping, etc.

· Strong knowledge and effective execution of root cause analysis and corrective actions aimed at defect prevention.

· Blueprint reading and GD&T principles.

Minimum Requirements:

· Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a related field.

· 2+ years’ experience in the field of Quality Engineer.

Physical Requirements:

· Regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.

· Occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

· Must frequently lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.

· Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

· Occasionally work near moving mechanical parts.

· Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.