Quality Engineer Associate

M.C. Dean, Inc•Frederick, CO

38d

About The Position

The Quality Engineer Associate is responsible for documenting, managing, implementing, and institutionalizing the Quality Assurance plan for the assigned business unit and/or service center. This role involves performing Quality Control tasks, incorporating and leading M.C. Dean's Quality Management System on the assigned project, and ensuring control of documents, records, and nonconforming installations. The associate will also be responsible for the initiation, follow-up, and closure of corrective and preventive actions. They will document and implement the Quality Plan tailored to project specifications/contractual requirements, partner with the project team to understand the scope of work, and establish and lead the 3-Phase Quality Control Process (preparatory, initial, and follow-up inspections). The role includes collecting data from internal inspections, preparing weekly inspection data logs, initiating/assigning/managing discrepancy notices and corrective action reports, identifying and providing solutions to project-specific issues, and managing the punch list identification and closeout process. Additionally, the associate will establish and lead quality initiatives, participate in the review of Engineering deliverables, provide oversight for 3rd party agencies, document tailored processes using recognized frameworks, understand AS-IS processes and recommend improvements, identify and create controls for implementation, lead quality assurance and compliance activities, conduct project-specific audits, prepare quality reports, develop project scorecards, and work on special process improvement projects.

Requirements

0 + years of experience with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (preferably Industrial/Systems Engineering)
Data Collection, Management and analysis
Planning and organizational skills
Written and verbal communication skills
Decision-making skills
Teamwork, Team building and collaboration skills
Customer service orientation
Sharp attention to detail
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Meticulous and diligent attributes
Great team player with the ability to work with minimal supervision
Ability to influence with no direct supervisory authority
Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
Sitting for extended periods of time.
Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
Finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Identify and understand the speech of another person.

Responsibilities

Documenting, managing, implementing, and institutionalizing the Quality Assurance plan for the assigned business unit and/or service center.
Perform Quality Control tasks.
Incorporate and lead M.C. Dean's Quality Management System on the assigned project.
Ensure control of documents and records.
Ensure control of nonconforming installation.
Initiate, follow-up and closure of corrective and preventive actions.
Document and Implement the Quality Plan tailored to project specifications/contractual requirements.
Partner with the project team in understanding the complete scope of work for the project.
Establish and lead 3-Phase Quality Control Process conducting preparatory, initial and follow-up phase inspections.
Collect data from internal inspections on conformity to requirements and compliance to procedures and prepare weekly inspection data log (Field Data Collection Report).
Initiate/Assign/Manage Discrepancy Notices, Corrective Action Reports, Corrective & Preventive Actions (CAPA).
Identify and provide solutions to project specific issues based on knowledge, experience and outside resources.
Manage the punch list identification and closeout process.
Establish and lead quality initiatives for the project.
Participate in the review of Engineering deliverables (Drawing (Design/Detail), Specification, Submittals) and ensure all comments generated during these reviews are addressed.
Provide oversight and coordinate 3rd party peer design and 3rd party testing agencies, implement recommendations as necessary.
Document tailored processes across the value stream using ISO, CMMI, Agile, Lean Six Sigma, PMBOK, ITIL and other internationally recognized process frameworks.
Understand challenges in the existing AS-IS processes and recommend improvements for process optimization.
Identify technical and administrative controls and create rules, policies, and procedures for the control implementation.
Lead all activities involving quality assurance, compliance, audits, deliverables, and process improvement.
Conduct project specific audits to measure the degree of adherence to documented policies and procedures.
Prepare product and process quality reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
Develop project scorecard on Quality Assurance and report to project and executive teams on the level of adherence.
Work on special process improvement projects to identify root cause and put in place corrective and preventive actions to prevent recurrence.