Quality Engineer

JTEKT North America • Vonore, TN

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About The Position

JTEKT North America is seeking a Quality Engineer for its Vonore, Tennessee location. The role ensures part quality by addressing end-user, customer, internal, and supplier concerns. The Quality Engineer acts as the voice of the customer, supports root-cause analysis and corrective actions, and works with production, suppliers, and cross-functional teams. The position also supports new product launches, audits, quality data analysis, and the maintenance of quality, health, safety, and environmental systems.

This position has no supervisory responsibilities. The work environment involves sitting with intermittent walking and requires manual dexterity, communication in person, by phone, or through VOIP, and visually reading reports and computer screens. The position requires at least eight hours of work per day, five days per week; daily overtime and weekends may be required to complete essential duties.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Math, Physics, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of quality and/or engineering-related experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with customers, suppliers, and all levels of the JTEKT organization.
• Self-motivation and ability to work without close supervision.
• Strong statistical and analytical skills.
• Experience in tight-tolerance machining and assembly manufacturing.
• Experience using gages such as micrometers and calipers.
• Ability to travel as required.
• Basic knowledge of applicable quality, health, safety, and environmental management systems.

Nice To Haves

• ASQ and/or Six Sigma certification.

Responsibilities

• Support activities that maintain product quality within the production process.
• Act as the voice of the customer to JTEKT departments.
• Analyze internal and external nonconformances to determine root causes and verify corrective-action effectiveness.
• Develop and conduct system or product audits.
• Support launch activities for new or revised products.
• Contribute to the maintenance of quality, health, safety, and environmental systems.
• Support other JTEKT facilities and travel as required.
• Work daily overtime and weekends as required to complete essential job duties.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level