Manufacturing Quality Engineer

BlueScope•White Hall, AR

About The Position

This role develops, governs, standardizes and continuously improves quality systems, quality controls and quality-engineering practices across BBNA manufacturing operations. It ensures products and processes consistently meet customer, company, regulatory and certification requirements while reducing variation, defects, rework, scrap, warranty claims and the overall cost of poor quality through data-driven analysis, problem solving, auditing and continuous improvement. The role provides safe and ethical quality-engineering support; maintains and improves quality management systems; improves process and product capability; leads root-cause and corrective/preventive action activities; investigates customer quality issues; supports audits; collaborates on supplier quality; maintains enterprise quality metrics; and builds quality capability across manufacturing operations. Extensive travel, approximately 50% of the time, is required. BlueScope offers a total compensation plan and benefits package that includes health insurance, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid time off and retirement.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
At least three years of manufacturing, quality engineering, quality systems or industrial experience.
Experience with quality management systems, auditing, nonconformance control and corrective action processes.
Working knowledge of statistical process control, process capability analysis, inspection systems and measurement systems.
Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications and manufacturing requirements.
Strong analytical, problem-solving and data-analysis skills.
Effective written, verbal and presentation communication skills.
Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Willingness and ability to travel extensively, approximately 50% of the time.

Nice To Haves

Five or more years of quality engineering experience.
Experience in steel processing, metal fabrication, welding, roll forming or engineered building manufacturing.
ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE).
ASQ Certified Quality Auditor (CQA).
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
ISO Internal Auditor or Lead Auditor certification.
AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) or equivalent.
Experience with MSA, Gage R&R, FMEA, Control Plans and Design of Experiments.
Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities

Provide safe and ethical quality-engineering support by complying with BlueScope HSE requirements, assessing and managing risk, and conducting quality activities safely and responsibly.
Develop, maintain and improve BBNA quality management systems, including creating, standardizing and supporting implementation of procedures, work instructions, inspection methods and quality standards across manufacturing operations.
Improve manufacturing process and product capability through statistical analysis, process monitoring, capability assessments and effective process controls.
Lead and facilitate root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive action activities to eliminate recurring quality issues and improve manufacturing performance.
Investigate customer complaints, claims and warranty issues, identify root causes and implement preventive actions.
Support internal, customer and third-party audits by conducting assessments, documenting findings and ensuring timely, effective closure of corrective actions.
Improve supplier quality performance by collaborating with suppliers, Supply Chain and Purchasing to resolve material-related issues and drive corrective actions.
Develop and maintain enterprise quality metrics, dashboards and reporting systems that provide visibility into quality performance and improvement opportunities.
Build quality capability across BBNA manufacturing operations through coaching, training, facilitation and sharing best practices.
Support continuous-improvement initiatives that improve quality, productivity, consistency and customer value across BBNA operations.
Perform other duties as assigned.