Quality Engineer

Overview

Under the direction of the Quality Manager, the Quality Engineer is responsible for providing support across all existing Quality applications. This role will be exposed to a variety of areas across the Great Dane plant environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Great Dane's quality and engineering personnel to determine critical part features and review manufacturability of design.  Make recommendations to modify part specifications and tolerances as necessary to support cost effective production.

• Provide quality engineering support to operations ensuring consistent application of quality techniques

• Resolve quality issues of capability, tolerancing, and materials related issues.

• Resolve quality issues by identifying problems, examining solution options, and implementing action plans.

• Effectively communicate and reinforce Great Dane's commitment to quality improvement efforts

• Determine when process stability and capability studies should be performed on existing processes.  Review and analyze results.  Recommend changes to processes based upon findings and perform follow up to verify effectiveness.

• Participate in the Advanced Product Quality Planning activities to determine appropriate use of existing and new measurement systems during new tool or process design and startup.

• Coordinate pre-launch production trial run process monitoring.

• Participate and lead development of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).

• Develop and maintain Control Plans and FMEA's throughout the life of the part.

• Facilitate and promote use of appropriate problem-solving techniques for effective root cause analysis and successful corrective action.

• Extract and analyze data using JDEdwards, excel, and minitab and present for review to the leadership teams

• Perform duties in accordance with quality system requirements as the voice of Great Dane's customers.

• Coordinate with Sales, Purchasing, Engineering, Production, and Maintenance to resolve customer complaints and concerns.

• Apply appropriate use of statistical techniques.

• Determine and apply appropriate Measurement System Analysis tools.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Job Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering, prefer Manufacturing or Mechanical

• Years of Experience: 1-3+ years of relevant work experience in automotive or heavy industrial environment

• Exceptional mechanical aptitude (e. intuitive understanding of mechanical processes)

• Proven track record of driving continuous quality improvement in a manufacturing

• Proficient in Microsoft Office products, including advanced data functions in Excel.

• Excellent analytical skills; Ability to collect and analyze data and present findings.

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Travel: Occasional travel to suppliers or corporate office may be required.

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing duties of job, employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close and distance vision. Ability to lift 50 lbs.

• Work environment: The noise level in the work environment is both office and plant and hence hearing protection is needed in the manufacturing environment.