Quality Engineer

Position Summary: The Quality Engineer serves as a key resource for Quality Assurance activities, supporting product quality throughout the manufacturing process.

This role collaborates with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve quality issues, implement corrective actions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives to ensure products meet customer, company, and industry standards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Develop, implement, and maintain quality standards, requirements, inspection methods, and control plans to ensure product and process compliance throughout the manufacturing lifecycle.

Serve as a Quality Assurance resource to manufacturing teams by identifying quality issues, leading problem-solving efforts, implementing corrective and preventive actions, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Support new product development and engineering projects by providing quality input during design reviews, testing, validation, and production launch activities, including PPAP submission and approval processes.

Develop and maintain quality documentation, including inspection procedures, quality alerts, deviations, reports, and process control documents.

Perform process, product, and system audits to verify compliance with company standards, customer requirements, and ISO requirements.

Manage measurement system requirements, including gauge calibration, equipment tracking, and verification of inspection tools.

Analyze quality data, trends, and losses; communicate findings and recommendations to management and cross-functional teams.

Support supplier and customer quality activities, including supplier PPAP reviews, corrective actions, quality issue resolution, and customer complaint investigations.

Participate in materials review activities and support evaluation of non-conforming products.

Conduct product testing and validation activities, including support for Engineering requirements and industry standards such as BIFMA.

Provide technical support for customer quality concerns, product returns, troubleshooting, and evaluation of potential product failures.

Assist with development and delivery of quality training materials and support Quality Technicians with daily quality activities.

Support ISO certification efforts and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: Strong knowledge of quality principles, statistical methods, statistical process control (SPC), inspection techniques, and quality documentation practices.

Experience with metal processing and manufacturing environments, including Lean Manufacturing and Kaizen methodologies.

Knowledge and experience supporting ISO requirements, certification processes, and quality system documentation.

Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze data, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across a...