Quality Engineer - Excellerate

Excellerate is focused on leading the way in construction, engineering, manufacturing, and renewable energy, redefining how energy is designed, applied, and consumed while fostering a Culture of Care as “one of the Healthiest 100 Workplaces in America.”

About the role

The Quality Engineer supports quality customer requests and communications and ensures product compliance with customer specifications and Excellerate requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a business or engineering discipline is preferred.
• Two (2) years of related industry experience is required; Five (5) years is preferred.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the key job accountabilities may be considered.
• Travel: 10-25% depending on company needs.

Schedule

This position works between the hours of 7 AM and 5 PM, Monday–Friday. However, work may be performed at any time on any day of the week to meet business needs.

Responsibilities

Product Compliance

• Ensure products comply with customer specifications, industry standards, regulatory requirements, and Excellerate standards.
• Ensure production process work instructions comply with specifications and standards.
• Approve all changes and deviations from established guidance, including Engineering Change Orders.
• Lead and coordinate external customer audits and visits; serve as quality point of contact for all external customer visits.
• Assist team with RFQs and other quality-related information as needed.
• Support and manage in-process audits to ensure compliance and assess for gaps in the manufacturing process.
• Lead product-related corrective action (CAPA) discussion and closure.

Customer Service

• Serve as one of the primary customer contacts for quality-related meetings, issues, specification inquiries, and audits.
• Lead response and actions associated with customer quality concerns, including responding to complaints and inquiries in their system.
• Engage team members and other Subject Matter Experts to address process concerns related to customer quality.
• Lead and manage customer quality metrics.
• Lead the deviation process and ensure communication to the customer as required.
• Lead CAPA development in response to customer requests.
• Provide feedback and documentation to the customer, as required.

Manufacturing Readiness

• Create and maintain all required quality guidance for manufacturing readiness, including product Quality Plans.
• Lead identification and maintenance of customer and industry standard failure modes for inclusion in the FMEA.
• Support development, execution, and maintenance of the Control Plan to ensure compliance with customer specifications, industry standards, regulatory requirements, and Excellerate standards.
• Ensure customer specifications are included in training, as required.

Continuous Process Improvement

• Support initial investigation and disposition decisions for Non-Conforming Material (NCM).
• Analyze NCM data trends through QMS software to promote manufacturing quality process improvements.
• Lead analysis of customer quality metric data and identify opportunities to reduce customer defects.
• Collaborate with site engineers to implement improvements.
• Lead CAPA development for repeat or systemic issues and ensure implementation.

Performs other related duties as required and assigned.

Benefits

FTI offers a flexible and robust benefits package for regular/full-time team members, including:

• Industry-leading benefits as an investment in team members and their families.
• Competitive, merit-based compensation and career path development.
• Opportunities for continued education and professional growth.