Manufacturing Quality Assurance Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance, training, and assistance to related departments regarding quality system, Engineering Standards, and procedural specifications.
• Act as a resource on quality assurance and management issues throughout the company.
• May manage a team of Quality Control Technicians, including roles such as ISO Management Representative.
• Coordinate the implementation of the quality system, interface with registrars, and coordinate external audits.
• Review and recommend improvements and corrective/preventive actions for quality management systems.
• Manage ISO9001 internal audit system and document control system, including record retention.
• Perform supplier quality functions, support Purchasing Department in supplier selection, and provide corrective actions as needed.
• Train on quality assurance topics across the organization.
• Collaborate on continuous improvement initiatives between manufacturing and corporate operations.
• Support customer satisfaction efforts through reporting, customer audits, and corrective actions.
• Maintain warranty and RGA processes, supporting corrective and preventive actions.
• Act in accordance with TCF Core Values.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• Five plus years' experience in quality management and/or quality engineering.
• Familiarity with quality systems and processes such as ISO9001, SPC, FMEA, QFD, PPAP, metrology control, supplier quality, lean manufacturing, and/or six sigma methodologies.
• Strong computer skills.
• Good communications skills.
• Ability to travel 25%.

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

• Standard office environment.
• Occasionally lifts up to 20 pounds.
• Occasionally climbs, balances, stoops, kneels, reaches.
• Works extended hours sitting at a computer.
• Exposure to moving mechanical parts, extreme heat, high places, fumes or airborne particles, and caustic chemicals.
• Noise level in plant environment is usually loud.