Quality Engineer

Job Description

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Position Responsibilities:

• Quality Engineering stakeholder for all product, process, or equipment changes.
• Evaluate the impact of process and equipment changes on product attributes and quality architectures
• Ensure product produced under non-standard conditions is correctly held, evaluated, and released
• Monitor critical product performance attributes and take appropriate action
• Perform experimental designs and data analysis
• Lead or assist in the investigation of root cause, and corrective action for customer issues
• Recommend process and quality improvements or corrections
• Audit the compliance of the quality system
• Protects IP
• Quality receiver for new manufacturing process; monitor product attribute performance
• Oversee initial product qualification
• Directly influence the quality of the product that customers receive
• Uniquely positioned to understand the interrelations between all manufacturing steps
• Work for a company that prides itself on innovation and is a recognized leader in specialty glass
• Participate in the startup of a high-tech manufacturing facility

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor of Engineering (Any Stream)
• 3-7 years experience in a quality engineering or applications engineering role
• Demonstrated Quality Mindset – e.g., understands impact of quality to the customer, understands the impact of various process elements on overall product quality, passion for quality
• Approaches work with process rigor and discipline – process oriented, applies the scientific method, experience developing and implements SOPs, uses data to drive decisions and solve problems using Quality Architectures/control plan.
• Strong quality engineering skill set – e.g., experience with Statistical Software package such as MiniTab or SAS, experience applying structured process improvement methods such as DMAIC, , DESGN, LEAN, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Experience working in a matrix environment, and demonstrated ability to influence diverse stakeholder groups
• Experience with system audits – e.g., familiarity w/ ISO 9000 or TL9000 requirements, experience as a business process auditor, etc.