Quality Engineer Specialist

Indiana Automotive Fasteners Careers•Greenfield, IN

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About The Position

Provides Quality Engineering support to the Quality Group and supports quality relationships with customers. Prepares PPAP documentation and verifies that countermeasures taken in response to customer and in-process nonconformances are effective, particularly for issues outside the reasonable process. Works with the Senior Specialist and other departments to monitor quality activity, maintain quality systems and records, investigate issues, and support manufacturing operations. The role requires the ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; write routine reports and correspondence; speak effectively with customers and team members; complete quality, production, and operational forms; perform basic mathematical calculations; and use common-sense reasoning to address problems involving several variables. The position involves frequent exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals and occasional exposure to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. The work environment is usually moderately noisy. Physical duties include frequent sitting, reaching, hand use, and talking or hearing, as well as occasional standing, walking, bending, lifting, twisting, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and tasting or smelling. The Team Member may occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds and regularly lift a container of fasteners weighing up to 25 pounds. Required vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and focus adjustment. Indiana Automotive Fasteners describes a team environment that emphasizes proactive problem-solving, respectful communication, constructive handling of disagreements and criticism, and reporting discriminatory language or threats and acts of violence to the Team Leader.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED, one to three months of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and complete quality, production, and operational forms.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or team members.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts, including proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume, and apply basic algebra and geometry.
Ability to apply common-sense understanding to written, oral, or diagrammed instructions and address problems involving several variables using a standardized method.
Ability to meet the stated physical demands, including regularly lifting a container of fasteners weighing up to 25 pounds and occasionally lifting or moving up to 50 pounds.
Ability to follow the company’s team conduct expectations, including respectful communication and reporting discriminatory language or threats and acts of violence.

Responsibilities

Assist the Senior Specialist in developing and attaining Quality Department goals and objectives.
Tour the plant to monitor nonconformance activity and other areas of Quality Department involvement, and monitor control parameters at OQ, LAN, and AOQ when directed or when the Senior Specialist is absent.
Prepare and maintain Inspection Standards, PPAP documentation, records relating to the introduction of new parts, and other Quality Records.
Advise the Senior Specialist of nonconformities and exceptions.
Coordinate Quality Engineering activities with Sales, PC, and other departments.
Perform inspections and testing needed for investigations.
Assist the Senior Specialist in maintaining the Nonconformance System.
Prepare visual aids and perform tasks relating to Machine Condition Control and Manufacturing Floor Support, as needed.
Contact or visit customers at the Senior Specialist’s direction or when the Senior Specialist is unavailable.
Verify follow-up countermeasures in response to customer and in-process nonconformances.