Regional Quality Engineer

POSITION SUMMARY: Accountable for monitoring and support of the manufacturing activities to produce a quality product that meets or exceeds our customer's expectations through continued review and analysis of quality and production process.

MINIMUM ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

Quality

• Develop and implement quality standards, quality control systems and quality measures.
• Develop and implement quality improvement parameters by finding statistical methods relevant to manufacturing processes.
• Develop statistical confidence by finding sample size and acceptable error and setting up confidence levels.
• Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data; and making recommendations.
• Develops sampling and experimental plans by applying attributes and variable sampling methods.
• Lead and manage quality improvement projects start to end. (Collecting data, analyzing data, root cause analysis, brainstorming, solution creation, cost analysis, risk analysis & mitigation, implementation planning, execution, monitor & control)
• Enhance visual and digital monitoring, process modeling & prediction.
• Conduct process variability analysis and recommend options to stabilize the processes.
• Collaborate with operations to develop and implement controls and improvements.
• Ensuring that workflows, processes, and products follow industry and safety regulations/standards.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and to be able to ensure that processes and products consistently meet established quality standards.
• Investigates operational errors to find the cause and effect, making recommendations for corrective action.
• Required to work in a team environment with customers, co-workers, production supervisors, shipping and receiving, customer service, sales, site quality lead and company management.
• Use accepted methods to inspect, sample and test materials for quality control and quality control tolerance.
• Support all aspects of Quality Control including overall implementation of the quality program and supply support as needed to the key personnel who manage the processes.
• Daily reviews of key metrics to ensure budgeted goals are being met. Interpret information and coordinate any required changes or new directives with employees & site Quality lead/Manager.
• Review daily production statistics and ensure implementation of measures for continuous improvement in safety, quality, efficiency, and preventive loss.
• Work with Supply chain (Purchasing) team on supplier quality related issues.
• All the above responsibilities will be done in conjunction with site quality lead & process engineer.
• Other tasks as assigned by the Manager.
  
  
  

Requirements:

• Education- Associate Degree or five years industry experience
• Minimum of five years of experience managing Quality Control/ Operational Standards in a manufacturing needed.
• The successful candidate will be a hands-on, “on the plant floor” person who has proven experience leading effective behavioral change in the process, procedures, implementations with a functional area to ensure performance and productivity in a manufacturing environment.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Strong analytical, statistical, and problem-solving skills. (Six Sigma)
• Persuasive communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must work well in a cross-functional, dynamic, collaborative environment.
• Works directly with all departments in quality issues and in preventative and corrective actions.
• Actively pursue learning goals for added opportunities in growth and development in production and quality.
• Contribute to continued process improvement updating and writing new process procedures.
• Create understanding of workflow, employee relations and processes through hands-on experience with production equipment and working with production supervisor.
• Aid production supervisors in training, motivating, and instructing employees engaged in process improvement, documenting, and recording activities.

Working Conditions (travel, hours)

• Able to work full-time, and according to Branch Office needs, Monday through Friday 8AM – 5PM, overtime may be needed. On occasion it may be needed to travel to make customer visits.
• Travel as needed to all regional sites.

Physical/Sensory Requirements

• Labor Work - Exerting 10 to 25 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 5 to 10 pounds of force often, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are more than those for Light Work.

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