Sr Quality Engineer

Role Purpose

Provides quality engineering support to enable improvement of processes and equipment

Key Responsibilities

• Provide key quality/service and improved capability/capacity.
• Provides leadership in problem solving, and technical expertise to ensure timely resolution of issues
• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Designs and analyzes inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Audits quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• May also be responsible for the unit's Performance Excellence (Six-Sigma) project portfolio, assuring the effective use of different improvement methodologies (DMAIC, Lean, DESGN, etc.) toward the achievement of division or plant strategic goals.
• Coach belts and managers in project selection and implementation; and advise division/plant management and leaders on the use of Quality tools, methods and processes.
• Follows standard practices and procedure in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained.
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Administers company policies that directly affect subordinate employees.
• Recommends changes to unit or sub-unit policies.

Experiences/Education - Required

• B.S. or equivalent technical degree (Bachelors in Engineering)
• Experience with Green belt projects
• Statistical training through Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Lead teams with clear and significant, demonstrable financial impact
• Demonstrated ability to permanently solve difficult manufacturing issues (crises or chronic) (Scrap, COQ and Cost reduction)
• Lead new process/ product/ innovation project(s) (mainly focus in NPI processes)
• Knowledge sharing across division - e.g. core technologist
• Customer focus and customer complaints resolution,
• Basic understanding of manufacturing cost accounting and drivers
• Proficient Level of English
• SPC Knowledge

Experiences/Education - Desired

• Plant experience
• Experience in process engineering
• Experience across multiple divisions, functions (cross functional teams)
• TL9000
• Master Degree in process