Quality Engineer
About The Position
The Quality Engineer is an integral position in Great Lakes Industrial as it connects our vendors to our warehouse to our sales team and our customers. The position involves designing quality standards, inspecting materials, equipment, processes, and products, developing products and materials, and developing quality controls. We expect our quality engineer to be responsive, independent, personable, communicative, and collaborative. As the engineer grows, they will develop long-standing relationships with our customers, vendors, management team, warehouse employees, and inside staff, as well as become an expert in GLI’s internal systems and all roles in the office.
Requirements
- Excellent math and spatial reasoning skills, with the ability to read and understand prints, assembly drawings, tolerances, and stack-up.
- Ability to use engineering tools to create drawings, develop GLI capabilities, and use data collection and measurement tools.
- Ability to write clear and effective reports utilizing formal methodology such as 8D.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills for effective interface with all internal and external contacts
- Detail-oriented with demonstrated organizational and multitasking skills a must
- Team player who is assertive, goal-oriented, positive, and self-motivated
- High level of Integrity
- Ability to rapidly build knowledge of our systems and our customers’ practices
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills for effective interface with all internal and external contacts
- Bachelor's Degree in Chemical, Mechanical Engineering, or Physics required
- 0-3+ Years of Quality or Design Engineering-related work
- Excel and Word, CAD software is a plus
Nice To Haves
- Six-Sigma
Responsibilities
- Provide material selection and recommendation
- Design product shape and sizing recommendations for optimal application performance
- Apply design standards to customer applications, including gland design and mating interactions
- Provide engineering recommendation for technical quotes
- Conduct installation design and analysis
- Write clear and professional installation guides to customer applications
- Handle all customer quality issues and provide root-cause analysis and solutions
- Develop design ideas based on customer interests, budgets, and market research
- Conduct both virtual and on-site product trainings
- Support sales staff by reviewing customer application and recommend course of action
- Conduct both in-process and development testing for improved product recommendation
- Produce and distribute engineering documents, including PPAPs, PFMEAs, PCPs, and Gage R&Rs
- Produce standard and customer compliance documents
- Help company pass all internal and external audits, including ISO 9001
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
