Quality Assurance Engineer

Mission

The Quality Engineer is responsible for preventing quality anomalies, reducing green waste and cured scrap, and ensuring process capability and compliance across all manufacturing stages, including Mixing, Stock Preparation, Tire Building, Curing, and Final Inspection. This role serves as the customer advocate on the shop floor, ensuring Toyo product, process, and system requirements meet internal standards and external customer expectations.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Maintain process capability (Cp/Cpk) for critical and significant characteristics (CC/SC) using SPC tools and initiate corrective actions.
• Lead structured problem-solving using methodologies like 8D, 5-Why, DMAIC, etc., investigate scrap, rework, anomalies, and process escapes/leakages, manage corrective actions through Toyo CA tracking systems, and initiate and lead containment actions.
• Participate in waste reduction and continuous improvement efforts, track and analyze cured scrap and green waste, implement error-proofing (poka-yoke) and preventive controls, and actively participate in Kaizen, continuous improvement, and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Address customer quality concerns and corrective actions, manage supplier quality issues and CARs, and support incoming material quality containment.
• Support IATF 16949, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001 compliance, maintain quality documentation, and serve as a Management Representative or Process Owner as assigned.
• Analyze data using tools such as Minitab, Excel, PowerBI, etc., present quality metrics to management and customers, and provide shop-floor quality leadership and training.