Quality Engineer

About the role

Thanks to our commitment to creating a supportive and engaged workplace culture, Gorilla Glue has been recognized as a top place to work for 16 years in a row. We offer competitive compensation packages, comprehensive healthcare benefits, and other perks and incentives to ensure our employees feel valued and supported. Joining the Gorilla Glue family means being part of a team passionate about building strong brands and promoting a culture of excellence. As an employee, you'll be able to help create high-quality products and build brands that people love. Join us in an inspiring workplace where you can belong, grow, and make a difference!

The Quality Engineer applies established quality engineering principles and methodologies to identify risks, resolve quality concerns, improve processes, and promote product quality and reliability. This role supports quality programs and initiatives while developing increasing technical expertise within the Quality organization.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal teams, external manufacturers, and suppliers to achieve quality objectives while balancing consumer safety, product performance, business needs, and cost considerations.
• Support quality activities for new product development, product changes, packaging initiatives, process improvements, and ongoing manufacturing operations.
• Participate as the Quality representative on assigned cross-functional project teams, ensuring quality requirements and risks are appropriately identified and addressed.
• Troubleshoot new and existing products and processes, communicate identified quality risks, and resolve quality concerns independently or in collaboration with cross-functional partners.
• Perform statistical analysis to support troubleshooting, product and process qualification, equipment qualification, and continuous improvement activities.
• Develop and implement Quality Control Plans for new product development, packaging initiatives, product changes, and manufacturing processes.
• Define inspection and testing protocols for OTC, cosmetic, and adhesive products using established sampling methodologies, product requirements, and quality standards.
• Identify additional inspection or testing requirements necessary to mitigate specific risks related to consumer safety, product performance, packaging, labeling, and overall product quality.
• Support assigned supplier quality programs, including supplier nonconformance, supplier qualification, supplier change control, supplier notification of change, and supplier performance monitoring.
• Conduct supplier audits and assessments to evaluate compliance with established quality requirements.
• Review supplier corrective-action responses and support follow-up activities to verify appropriate closure.
• Conduct artwork proofing and packaging or labeling reviews to verify accuracy and compliance with established requirements