Advanced Quality Engineer

Milwaukee Tool•Brookfield, MT

5d•Onsite

About The Position

As an Advanced Quality Engineer for Milwaukee Tool, you will be based at the company’s Corporate & Global Design Headquarters in Brookfield, Wisconsin, and report to the Quality Manager. You will provide quality engineering services to cross-functional project teams working in New Product Development, Product Support, and Value Engineering. Throughout the product development cycle, you will use communication, analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills to help launch products that meet user needs and project objectives. The role leads and directs advanced quality and reliability activities to achieve project quality and reliability objectives, while supporting goals related to supplier development, time to market, cost, and performance. Quality engineering work includes developing risk-mitigation strategies, coordinating quality planning, supporting global manufacturing and supplier readiness, evaluating process capability, and monitoring field product quality. Reliability engineering work includes translating customer needs into requirements, supporting concept and prototype testing, validating specifications, assessing design and manufacturing risks, analyzing reliability data, and investigating failures. The position requires travel 20% of the time.

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 achieve project quality and reliability objectives and broader project goals.
Work with global quality teams to develop control-quality mitigation strategies for high-risk specifications.
Coordinate quality planning activities, including audits, inspections, and incoming, in-process, and outgoing control plans that carry user-critical-to-quality needs into product specifications and manufacturing processes.
Collaborate with manufacturing and supplier representatives in the United States, Europe, and Asia to ensure operational readiness for new product launches.
Use advanced statistical methods, including Six Sigma methods and Ppk and Cpk analysis, to ensure manufacturing process stability and capability.
Participate in supplier evaluation and selection.
Lead global, cross-functional teams involving product development engineering, internal and external operations and suppliers, quality, and supply chain.
Provide technical guidance to PRC and U.S.-based supplier quality teams.
Monitor, investigate, and report field product reviews using user feedback data to assess product health and quality risks.
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 confirm 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.