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Sr. Quality Engineer

Sr. Quality Engineer

CompanynVent
LocationAndover, MN, USA
Salary$89300 – $165800
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior

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