Quality Engineer

Miele•Opelika, AL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

For more than 125 years, Miele has been a family-owned, family-run company that values a healthy balance between the demands and appreciation of its employees. The company aims to be "forever better," with employees contributing their specialist knowledge, ambition, and forward-thinking. Miele strives to ensure a good working environment where everyone can experience personal and professional growth. As a world market leader in the premium domestic appliance segment, Miele's culture, across its 50 locations, emphasizes living and passing on Miele values and working in teams to develop innovative products. The company has over 23,000 employees in 50 countries dedicated to improving products daily and expanding innovation leadership. The Quality Engineer role is central to ensuring quality assurance of production processes and suppliers, contributing to product development, and supporting supplier development.

Responsibilities

Conduct Quality assurance of production processes and suppliers through identification, evaluation, and periodization of quality deviations, root cause analysis, initiating measures and ensure sustainable solutions of Q-problems of components, modules, products, and processes (e.g. 8D, Escalation, claim and complaint management)
Design and conduct Quality Check of Productions Processes, e.g. Incoming Goods Inspection, Functional test of products, modules and components, Endurance-/Reliability tests, Process Capability Control (SPC), Regular measurements of products, modules, and components (destructive and non-destructive)
Coordinate/participate in Change Management
Coordinate special releases for products, modules, and components in coordination with procurement, production, operations and research and development
Contribute to Quality Assurance, Supplier Control and Supplier Selection in Product Development Processes and Local Sourcing in coordination with procurement
Conduct Advance Quality Planning in Product Development Processes (e.g. QFS, FMEA)
Conduct Quality Check in Product Development Processes
Contribute Q-expertise to supplier development to ensure and improve capability of suppliers regarding Miele Quality Standards and Goals
Ensure proper certification and calibration of measurement devices (e.g. test bench, light curtains, 3D measurement system)
Provide Quality and process expertise to adhesive bonding specialist- deputy
Participate in cross-functional teams (e.g. Root cause investigations, safety assessments, etc.)
Support similar functions in contract manufacturing as needed