Quality Engineer

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

Quality Management System / ISO 9001 Support 

• Support development, implementation, and maintenance of the Madix Quality Management System.  

• Assist with ISO 9001:2015 readiness activities, including procedures, records, audits, risk assessments, training, and management review inputs.  

• Create and maintain quality procedures, SOPs, work instructions, forms, inspection records, and process flow documentation.  

• Support document control and record control activities through SharePoint, Q-Connect, SAP, or other approved systems.  

• Participate in internal audits, layered process audits, product audits, and process audits.  

• Help identify gaps in compliance, process control, training, inspection, and documentation.  

Corrective Action / RCCA / Customer Complaints 

• Lead or support root cause investigations for internal defects, customer complaints, supplier issues, escapes, and recurring nonconformances.  

• Manage corrective actions using 3P, 5 Why, fishbone, RCCA, containment, corrective action, and effectiveness verification methods.  

• Support Field Quality Reports, customer complaints, replacement reviews, and external CARs.  

• Ensure quality review occurs when customer complaints or no-charge replacements meet defined risk, cost, quantity, or repeat-issue thresholds.  

• Track corrective actions to closure and verify actions are effective.  

• Communicate findings clearly to production leaders, quality leadership, and cross-functional teams.  

Shop-Floor Quality Support 

• Provide daily quality support to manufacturing areas such as stamping, roll forming, press brake, welding, robotic welding, paint, woodshop, assembly, packaging, and shipping.  

• Support first-piece, last-piece, hourly inspection, certified operator checks, and production verification activities.  

• Assist operators and team leaders with interpreting drawings, dimensions, tolerances, inspection requirements, and defect standards.  

• Develop practical shop-floor quality controls, visual standards, setup sheets, inspection aids, and go/no-go gauges.  

• Evaluate defects such as wrong dimensions, weld issues, paint defects, rust, burrs, dents, camber, twist, poor fit, missing parts, and packaging damage.  

• Support containment activities, sorting, rework decisions, MRB disposition, scrap review, and product release decisions.  

Inspection, Measurement, and Process Control 

• Develop inspection plans, check sheets, sampling plans, and quality control methods.  

• Support calibration and proper use of inspection tools including calipers, micrometers, tape measures, height gauges, feeler gauges, paint mil gauges, and go/no-go fixtures.  

• Assist with receiving inspection, in-process inspection, final inspection, product audits, and supplier quality checks.  

• Use data to identify trends in defects, warranty, complaints, MDRs, CARs, and inspection failures.  

• Apply basic statistical tools such as Pareto charts, trend charts, control charts, capability studies, PPM, scrap rate, defect rate, and COPQ.  

• Recommend process changes to reduce variation and improve quality at the source.  

Supplier and Material Quality 

• Support supplier rejection activities, incoming inspection, supplier communication, and supplier corrective actions.  

• Investigate material-related defects such as rust, incorrect gauge, camber, hardness, twist, paint issues, damaged material, and nonconforming purchased parts.  

• Work with Materials, Purchasing, and Production to contain supplier issues and prevent production disruption.  

• Assist with supplier scorecards, approved supplier list inputs, and supplier quality performance tracking.  

Systems and Data 

• Use SAP, Q-Connect, Power Apps, SharePoint, Excel, and other systems to document inspections, defects, rejections, corrective actions, and quality records.  

• Support improvement of quality apps, dashboards, inspection forms, and reporting tools.  

• Enter, review, and analyze quality data for accuracy and completeness.  

• Prepare quality reports for daily tier meetings, weekly quality reviews, management review, and customer/supplier discussions.  

• Help standardize quality data collection across departments and sites.  

Benefit Details

• Group Health Insurance
• Company Paid Group Term Life
• Dental, Vision, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Critical Care
• 401k – Eligible day one of employment (Contributions can be from 1% to 50% of salary. Company match of up to 4% quarterly based on safe harbor election)
• Holidays – 9 per year (Eligible after 30 days of employment)
• Vacation time
• Educational Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Onsite Clinic – Free medical visits
• Safety and Attendance incentives
• Employee Appreciation Days

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!