Advanced Quality Engineer

Milwaukee Tool•Brookfield, WI

6d•Onsite

About The Position

As an Advanced Quality Engineer for Milwaukee Tool, you will be located at the Corporate & Global Design Headquarters in Brookfield, Wisconsin, and report to the Quality Manager. Throughout a product’s development cycle, you will use cross-functional communication skills and analytical expertise to help launch products that meet user needs. You will work in a fast-paced environment as a member of a cross-functional team. The position provides quality engineering services to project teams working in New Product Development, Product Support, and Value Engineering. You will lead and direct advanced quality and reliability activities to meet project quality and reliability objectives and broader goals, including supplier development, time-to-market, cost, and performance. The role requires strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills and a proactive approach to deliverables.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Industrial, or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent.
Previous experience with advanced quality, quality engineering, and/or reliability engineering concepts.
Experience using advanced statistical methods and techniques in reliability and/or quality disciplines, including Six Sigma methods, Weibull analysis, and linear regression.
Strong critical-thinking ability to evaluate and identify risks early in the product development cycle and drive projects to mitigate those risks.
Ability to travel 20% of the time.

Nice To Haves

Experience in manufacturing environments is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead and direct advanced quality and reliability activities for project teams to meet project objectives and goals.
Work with global quality teams to develop quality-control mitigation strategies for high-risk specifications.
Coordinate quality planning, including auditing, inspection, and incoming, in-process, and outgoing control plans, to carry user need critical-to-quality requirements through product specifications and into manufacturing processes.
Collaborate with US-, European-, and Asian-based manufacturing and supplier representatives to ensure operational readiness for new product launches.
Use advanced statistical methods, including Six Sigma methods and Ppk and Cpk analysis and interpretation, to support manufacturing process stability and capability.
Participate in supplier evaluation and selection.
Lead global, cross-functional teams involving new product development engineering, internal and external operations and suppliers, quality, and supply chain.
Provide technical guidance to PRC- and US-based supplier quality teams.
Monitor, investigate, and report field product reviews using user feedback data streams to assess overall product health and quality risk.
Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to translate customer needs into product requirements and specifications.
Support product design through benchmarking and testing concepts and prototypes.
Develop and execute test procedures to validate product specifications and ensure quality and reliability readiness.
Lead design and manufacturing risk assessments during product development.
Perform reliability analysis using advanced statistical techniques, including Weibull analysis, Minitab, and other statistical tools.
Interpret and present advanced statistical data concisely to cross-functional teams.
Perform failure analysis and recommend solutions and corrective actions as needed.
Proactively identify quality improvements for new and existing products.