Quality Engineer

Position Summary: Quality: Participate in resolving issues in Supplier Approvals, Root cause Analysis, Production/Process Support, Engineering and Product Reliability.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None at this time.
Duties and Responsibilities: Supplier Quality: Create or update Inspection Plans for received product, including first articles.
Communicate product related problems to our supplies via KSI’s Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCARs).
Monitor and report on supplier performance ratings.
Qualify new suppliers.
Production Support Quality: Create and monitor quantitative data related quality problems in production.
Conduct “root cause” investigations concerning quality issues.
Coordinate Corrective Action Plans (CAP’s) to eliminate root causes and lead the bi-weekly corrective action committee meetings Ensure that all finished good products follow a Final Acceptance Testing (FAT) sheet review.
Product Reliability: Participate in new product design development to ensure reliability and maintainability is incorporated into the products design.
Conduct initial product qualification tests on new products to ensure reliability and maintainability are incorporated into the products design.
Conduct ongoing qualification testing to ensure design, supplier, and production quality is maintained throughout the existence of the product.
Other duties as assigned.
Equipment To Be Used: Computers, telephones, development systems, Engineering software, and test equipment.
Typical Physical Demands: Sit, stand, walk, lift, bend, and reach.
Drive a car/SUV day or night.
Specific vision abilities require close vision and the ability to focus.
Travel the United States via car or airplane and infrequently internationally as the job may demand depending on partners.
Frequently lift ten (10) pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to sixty (60) pounds and occasionally lift and/or move in excess of sixty (60) pounds using lifting aids, technologies, or appropriate assistance.
Typical Mental Demands: Must be able to perform complex math calculations.
Must be able to gather and analyze quantitative and qualitative data.
Must be able to write technical documentation.
Ability to effectively present information to customers and other employees of the organization.
Working Conditions: Quiet, temperature-controlled, typical office environment.
A typical workweek will include eight (8) hours per day, five (5) days a week.
Must work some evenings and weekends.
Travel: Up to 20% travel to customers’ sites via car or airplane.
Education and Experience: B.
S.
in a Manufacturing related discipline (i.
e.
, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a similar Quality discipline) with 3+ years of related work experience in a quality engineering position (i.
e.
, Quality Engineer, Supplier Quality Engineer, etc.
) Experience in concurrent engineering processes, with some level of engineering development validation.
Skills: Quality Control Systems and statistical techniques.
ISO9000 implementation experience.
Lean/Six-Sigma experience Microsoft Office Proficient Must possess strong interpersonal skills.