Quality Engineer - Morgantown, PA

About the role

This position will perform engineering duties associated with control and improvement of product quality. Position will work closely with manufacturing, quality and purchasing personnel as well as external suppliers and customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead or participate in projects to improve the operation, instrumentation, or control of the entire manufacturing process.
• Introduce and monitor cost reduction and improvement programs.
• Disposition nonconforming material.
• Provide quality support for RM, EB, PAM, VAR and Powder products including but not limited to certification (release of product), melt releases and conversion work orders.
• Investigate customer quality issues.
• Participate in the internal quality audits program.
• Implement/Initiate Quality control (SPC) for critical parameters and new technology (manufacturing- inspection).
• Auxiliary in regulatory and external audits.
• Support quality control aspects of new process and product development.
• Maintain quality metric/reporting (weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports on quality maintenance).
• Initiate Management of Change (MOC) and Manufacturing Process Experiments (MPE) associated with control of product quality.
• Auxiliary with customer complaints, audits, and corrective actions, involving investigation of quality problems.
• Serve on a rotating basis as weekend Quality Duty Officer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (BS) in engineering related field.
• 2 - 5 years of experience in professional engineering with Metals industry.
• Minitab or other statistical software experience is preferred.
• Strong continuous improvement projects.
• Strong problem solving / Troubleshooting background.
• Strong auditing/investigation skills needed.
• High degree of computer proficiency - MS preferred - word, excel, access.