Quality Engineer

PAULO PRODUCTS COMPANY•Willoughby, OH

21d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Engineer identifies problems and opportunities for improvement within processes and systems at the Cleveland facility, then leads, guides, and facilitates formal problem solving. The role supports Quality Department activities, including reducing internal and external production rejects, coordinating corrective actions, supporting audits and quality-system improvements, reviewing pyrometry activities, and communicating heat-treatment industry standards and AMS specifications. The position also supports plant-wide safety initiatives, testing and calibration activities, process development, continuous improvement, training, and teamwork. It serves as a subject matter expert on material and heat-treatment specifications and provides backup furnace process programming. Travel may include overnight stays of one or more nights.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, preferably in engineering or metallurgy; or at least four years of related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Microsoft Office experience, preferably including Access.
Must be able to obtain AS9100 Internal Auditor training and other quality-system-related training as needed.
Must be able to obtain customer certifications as a subject matter expert.
Valid driver’s license and acceptable Motor Vehicle Record in compliance with Aalberts’s Vehicle Use Policy.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AS9100 and NADCAP.

Responsibilities

Assist in identifying, planning, and implementing plant-wide safety initiatives.
Lead, facilitate, and support formal problem-solving efforts, including documenting, implementing, and reviewing activities to reduce problems and improve processes.
Interpret and communicate standards used at AST-Paulo to support effective implementation and customer satisfaction.
Coordinate and assist with planning, organizing, and following up on internal audit findings.
Analyze reject-system data and establish and facilitate process problem-solving teams to reduce rejects.
Support organizational objectives and strategies, including the quality policy and objectives.
Coordinate product testing with external facilities and perform internal testing, including sampling-plan adherence, sample preparation, hardness and microhardness testing, braze coverage analysis, and microstructure review.
Benchmark internal processes for potential promotion across the Cleveland facility.
Serve as a subject matter expert on material and heat-treatment specifications and provide input into process development and changes.
Promote and use problem-solving approaches such as 8D and 5 Whys.
Identify, develop, assist with, and implement training for formal problem solving.
Support pyrometry activities, including AMS 2750 system accuracy testing, temperature uniformity surveys, thermocouple calibrations, and equipment calibrations.
Support calibration of facility equipment to ensure accurate and precise monitoring and inspection.
Promote lean and continuous-improvement principles and related organizational efforts.
Assist the Quality Manager in promoting use of Business Management System tools.
Support teamwork and team-building activities, including 5S, team-member engagement, Resultman understanding and analysis, QC Tech development, and LDMS support and promotion.
Use and promote statistical tools and Aalberts software tools to analyze and reduce production-process variation.
Provide backup furnace process programming.
Perform other duties as assigned by the Quality Assurance Manager or Plant Manager.
Travel for job activities, potentially including overnight stays of one or more nights.