Title: Quality Engineer
Location: Waterloo, IA
Duration: 24+ Months (Possibility of extension)
Your Responsibilities:
As a Quality Engineer, you will:
- Become an important member within a highly aligned, effective, quality, manufacturing & operations team.
- Provide production support for containment, inspections, quality procedures and tools to monitor critical processes.
- Provide quality planning, control, and improvement (CI) support for operations teams to ensure client product quality meets customers’ expectations.
- Report defined quality KPI’s through operations teams and management.
- Analyze system data & KPI’s to facilitate quality-related discussions with internal and external customers & suppliers to drive corrective action.
What Skills You Need
- Background in Engineering (construction, mechanical, electrical, hydraulics, power systems, logistics etc.).
- 1 or more years of related experience in quality or manufacturing engineering in a manufacturing environment (excluding internships)
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and organizational skills.
- A hands-on mentality and ability to lead with minimal supervision to robustly solve quality issues.
- Understanding of the Quality Process Controls and the connection to people executing them in a “No Fault Forward” structure.
- Understanding of the execution of quality tools such as Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T), Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Root Cause Analysis (5W, 8D).
- Adaptability to effectively change priorities to meet business objectives.
What Makes You Stand Out
- 1 or more years of related experience in quality or manufacturing engineering in a manufacturing environment
- Experience using standard quality management principles and tools (such as FMEA, SPC, Root Cause, Control Plans, Gauge RR, MSA and Capability Studies)
- Experience with gear or shaft manufacturing standards, processes, and controls
- Experience reading and interpreting complex part drawings, including functional knowledge of GD&T principles and terminology
- Experience using advanced data gathering and analysis techniques, including statistical analysis
- Experience in driving a closed loop corrective action process, including rigorous root cause analysis
- Experience in project management; including effectively facilitating, leading, and managing cross functional teams
- Experience with Power BI, Alteryx, Tableau, or Minitab software
- ASQ certifications such as CQE, CSSGB, and/or CSSBB
Education
Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:
- Bachelors degree in Engineering
- Manager is open to recent grad candidates