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Sr. Quality Engineer
Company | nVent |
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Location | Andover, MN, USA |
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Salary | $89300 – $165800 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant engineering field in any STEM program is required
- Ideally 6+ years working experience in Manufacturing or Quality processes
- Ideally 3+ years leading cross-functional problem solving teams and customer-facing functions
- Previous experience managing direct reports
- Quality Certifications (e.g. CQE, CMQ, or CQA) and ISO 9001:2015 Internal Auditor/ Lead Auditor trained a plus
- Ability to lead simultaneous projects/tasks along with the ability to work in a fast paced team environment in a self-directed manner
- Process management, planning and change management, Six Sigma, Lean training, and quality systems experience
Responsibilities
- Provide guidance leading Six Sigma and Lean structured problem-solving methodologies, the use of quality tools, project management, team dynamics, and process monitoring
- Support advanced product quality planning (APQP) by ensuring quality standard work for new products and processes
- Analyze data and perform design reviews to create acceptance criteria, specifications, and control limits for production, components, and manufacturing
- Serve as a Lean change agent in building and institutionalizing FMEA, Quality Control Plans, SPC, FAI, PPAP, and Product/Process capability
- Maintain and continually improve Quality Management System compliance to ISO 9001:2015 standard; Lead and facilitate support to external quality system auditors, and lead/participate in process and product quality audits and resulting actions
- Facilitate coaching, training and development for a team of Quality Technicians
- Work collaboratively with team leads, supervisors, manufacturing, lean, design, sales, customer service, materials, procurement, HR, maintenance and other cross functional teams as a quality leader to ensure production lines produce high quality products that meet customer requirements following process and procedures
- Define containment and disposition criteria based on quality requirements
- Define and establish in-process quality control tasks to ensure manufacturing capability and product reliability
- Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals, lean methodologies and ability to apply them towards manufacturing quality
Preferred Qualifications
- Quality Certifications (e.g. CQE, CMQ, or CQA) and ISO 9001:2015 Internal Auditor/ Lead Auditor trained a plus