Materion is looking to improve its quality targets and overall quality system by hiring a Quality Engineer to drive process improvements, resolve customer complaints, and standardize calibration processes.
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years of experience in quality engineering.
- Lean and or Six Sigma Green Belt certification preferred or 2-3 years of Continuous Improvement experience.
- Project Management experience preferred (2-3 years).
- Prefer experience and knowledge of manufacturing systems, the quality function and technical products.
- Further experience with calibration, metrology and quality system auditing will be beneficial.
- Calibration duties include knowledge of calibration of micrometers, calipers, depth gages, etc.
- Maintains calibration database and ensures on-time performance of scheduled calibration.
Responsibilities
- Provide support to the Quality Manager to maintain requirements for the Quality Management System.
- Drive process quality improvements working with Process Engineering through the implementation of automated process controls, SPC, sampling systems, enhanced manufacturing procedures and utilization of statistical techniques.
- Audit process controls implemented for compliance.
- Project leader for Problem Solving Processes (8D, 5 Why, 7D, etc) to resolve Customer complaints, Customer audit findings or Return Material Authorizations in a timely manner that prevents reoccurrence.
- Directs failure analysis, root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Project leader for continuous improvement teams utilizing Six Sigma & Lean techniques that improve key metrics (Cost of Quality, Customer Complaint metrics, Yield) and Supplier Quality.
- Standardize the calibration of inspection and test equipment.
Other
- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field required.
- Metallurgy, material science, chemistry or chemical engineering degree preferred.
- The selection of the person to be hired for this position is contingent on the candidate having export compliance eligibility for access to U.S. controlled technology which comes under the licensing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of State, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
- The candidate selected will have to qualify as either a U.S. citizen, a U.S. National, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a Person Admitted into the U.S. as an Asylee or Refugee., a National of a country that is not prohibited from having access to U.S. controlled technology (via a letter of assurance), or a Person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction.
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