Quality Engineer

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