Quality Engineer

About the Role

This position's primary responsibility is designing and ensuring human/machine interfaces and quality processes, procedures, and controls are aligned to maximize quality production at a reduced cost. The Quality Engineer evaluates new customer and vendor requirements to design production-quality flow processes and prepares Capital Appropriation Requests (CAR) to evaluate if the investment is feasible and meets cost requirements.

Key position results include increasing quality and/or reducing cost for the supply base, internally, and customer base; ensuring compliance with all regulatory and internal policies; reducing scrap, reject, and rework; and timely and accurate CAR preparation and evaluation.

The ideal candidate utilizes strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills to identify, develop, and follow through on a course of action relative to production-quality flow processes.

Responsibilities

• Develops process control methods to solve complex problems and eliminate waste.
• Facilitates internal teams to determine root cause and implements corrective actions to prevent reoccurrences.
• Works with suppliers to improve products through material or process changes.
• Completes customer PPAP’s (Production Part Approval Process) and requirements.
• Develops, reviews, and approves supplier PPAP’s.
• Develops and performs DOE’s (Design of Experiments).
• Determines root cause and implements corrective action to prevent reoccurrence on customer issues.
• Evaluates, develops, and implements procedure and manual changes.
• Performs customer visits and supplier audits to drive improvements internally and externally.
• Manages the preparation and evaluation of CAR’s related to new tooling and equipment.
• Trains operators and management.
• Assists with selection or hire, recommends discipline, and may fill in for manager approvals.

Requirements

• Knowledge of FMEA process, participation, and documentation of FMEA’s.
• Advanced knowledge of internal audit methodologies related to various quality systems.
• Skilled in statistical software along with MS Office programs.
• Knowledge of material and product defects.
• Customer service focused and detail-oriented.
• Preferred: Certified Quality Technician, Certified Quality Auditor (CQA or WI Cert.), Certified Quality Engineer.
• Intermediate metallurgy training.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience.

Pay

Compensation will range from $80,000 to $130,000, commensurate with experience.

About Us

Worthington Enterprises (NYSE: WOR) is a designer and manufacturer of market-leading brands that help improve everyday life by elevating spaces and experiences. The company operates with two primary business units: Building Products and Consumer Products.

The Building Products segment includes cooking, heating, cooling, and water solutions, architectural and acoustical grid ceilings, and metal framing and accessories. The Consumer Products segment provides solutions for the tools, outdoor living, and celebrations categories.

Product brands within the Worthington Enterprises portfolio include Balloon Time®, Bernzomatic®, Coleman® (propane cylinders), CoMet®, Elgen, Garden Weasel®, General®, HALO™, Hawkeye™, Level5 Tools®, Mag Torch®, NEXI™, Pactool International®, PowerCore™, Ragasco®, Well-X-Trol®, and XLite™, among others.

Founded in 1955 as Worthington Industries, Worthington Enterprises follows a people-first philosophy with earning money for its shareholders as its first corporate goal. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Worthington Enterprises and its joint ventures employ approximately 6,000 people throughout North America and Europe.