Quality Engineer

Leggett & Platt • Grand Rapids, MI

11d • Onsite

About The Position

We, at Leggett & Platt Inc., are searching for a Quality Engineer within our Quality team to help support our Work Furniture business. Our Work Furniture business brings an intense focus on the customer, innovation, world-class manufacturing capabilities, and a global footprint together to create full package solutions for the industry. We do not make furniture. We make furniture more comfortable. We need the best people on our team to support our strategy, and your work will ensure people around the world have a little more comfort in their lives. As a Quality Engineer you will have the opportunity to support the organization to meet customer expectations for products and services. Your contributions will have a direct impact on the business by monitoring the quality performance of the supply base, drive improvement in supplier performance and improve our internal processes through continuous improvement. The team you will be working with is collaborative and innovative, and values challenging work and diversity of thought.

Requirements

• Five years minimum as a Quality Engineer in a manufacturing setting
• Experience in managing and driving projects.
• Six Sigma green belt or black belt certification
• Experience in internal auditing

Nice To Haves

• BS in a technical discipline

Responsibilities

• Managing the quality performance of the supply base by monitoring & reporting PPM performance of key suppliers.
• Communicating PPAP requirements to suppliers on engineering changes or new products, managing PPAP promise dates and approving supplier PPAPs.
• Monitoring scrap rates, identifying excellent, moderate and problem suppliers, completing supplier assessments if necessary, developing an improvement plan with suppliers to improve performance, monitoring progress.
• Assist in the development and approval of incoming inspection plans.
• Performing internal audits of products and processes, identifying corrective actions and driving completion of the actions.
• Identifying potential VA/VE projects and working with a cross-functional team to completion.
• Work to bring internal business processes to an ISO 9000-compliant level and maintain that complaint level through participation in internal auditing and internal documentation development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed