Quality Engineer

Marathon Electric•Wausau, WI

17d

About The Position

The Quality Engineer supports quality planning, monitoring, audits, inspections, corrective action, and continuous improvement across projects and product lines. The role analyzes quality data and reports findings, develops quality monitoring control plans and measurement systems, and coordinates root-cause analysis with cross-functional teams and external experts. It also supports customer and supplier PPAP submissions, production quality questions, change requests, purchased-part dimensional analysis, and measurement equipment maintenance and development. The position ensures customer quality requirements are incorporated into the QMS and communicates gaps to management. It may coach Inspector Technicians and serves as a corrective-action leader and customer point of contact for corrective action.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a mechanical field or relevant area of study, and/or equivalent related experience.
At least 2 years of related experience.
Experience in a manufacturing setting.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Excel and Outlook.
Previous participation in ISO certification and audit systems.
A continuous-improvement mindset.

Nice To Haves

Basic knowledge of mechanical assembly and components.
Formal continuous-improvement training.

Responsibilities

Compile data analyses and reports, and recommend improvements to quality audits and inspections.
Design Quality Monitoring Control Plans, including measurement system analysis (MSA), gauge repeatability and reproducibility (GR&R), and gauge development.
Coordinate data review and analysis with cross-functional team members and outside experts to support root-cause and corrective-action determination.
Coach and develop Inspector Technicians as needed.
Coordinate data-analysis reports across multiple projects and product lines, including customer line and field analysis, corrective-action effectiveness, and internal quality metrics.
Design internal standards for Inspector Technicians.
Review and evaluate quality-planning effectiveness for continuous improvement.
Evaluate root-cause corrective-action requirements and assign internal personnel and external experts as appropriate.
Facilitate training and corrective-action process reviews; lead corrective actions and serve as the customer point of contact for corrective action.
Ensure customer quality requirements are integrated into the QMS and communicate gaps to management.
Provide an overview of customer quality requirements.
Prepare customer PPAP submittals and supplier PPAPs for new suppliers.
Respond promptly to production quality questions through the shop-floor help chain.
Support the Change Request process.
Provide technical support for dimensional analysis of rejected purchased parts.
Complete preventive maintenance of critical measurement equipment.
Design specialty gaging for production.
Recommend measurement methods for mechanical gages.