Senior Level Quality Assurance Engineer at Plymouth

Job Description

George Konik Associates has partnered with a highly successful company that designs and manufactures commercial and industrial finishing products for clients throughout the world. This company is now hiring for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer who is critical to the organizations goal of introducing new products that flourish within their market.

SUMMARY

The Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for ensuring products conform to set specifications, while functioning in the most cost-effective manner. This position will actively participate in supporting new product development and sustaining engineering activities, resulting in high-tech products that meet client and quality objectives. The QA Engineer is critical to the company’s goal of introducing new products that are highly successful in the market. 

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Participate in the development and implementation of new products and revisions to existing products to ensure that product designs meet user needs and are as cost effective as possible.
• Develop and implement tactical quality plans that assure product meets requirements.
• Define process steps necessary to assure quality is built into products. 
• Document work instructions, define equipment needs and train hourly employees on these process steps.  Ensure appropriate steps are in place to monitor process results.
• Work with suppliers of assemblies and components to develop processes that provide assurance the products and/or components meet specifications. 
• Interpret incomplete or ambiguous specifications to ensure suppliers clearly understand company requirements.’
• Direct movement and disposition of non-conforming materials and provide work instruction on any sorting and/or rework activities. 
• Investigate the cause of non-conforming product and assure corrective actions are implemented that address the root cause.
• Prepare test plans for the qualification of product revisions, supplier changes and new products.  Test plans must be thorough and designed in a manner that assures customer needs are considered.
• Provides work direction to outside supplier partners, internal inspection and test employees.
• Works closely with peers in Operations, Engineering, Marketing, and supplier partners.

 

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment, working with product development teams.
• Technical knowledge of fluid handling and high pressure equipment a strong plus.
• Working knowledge of various manufacturing processes including: injection molding, die casting, machining, extrusions and electro-mechanical assembly.
•  Experience with engineering documentation systems, design drawings, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, gauging and a variety of inspection/test equipment and design-support tools such as QFD, FMEA, DFMA.  Prefer experience with APQP, PPAP, and understanding of 8D (Ishikawa) root cause analysis.
•  Familiar with ISO 9000 requirements.  Past audit experience a plus.
• Team player who maintains a positive attitude
• Should be influential and be able to motivate other people
• Driver towards continuous improvement/quality-focused
• Takes initiative and ownership

Country: USA, State: Minnesota, City: Plymouth, Company: George Konik Associates, Inc..