Quality Engineer - Ridgeway

isola•Ridgeway, SC

60d•Onsite

About The Position

Isola, an industry leader in global materials sciences whose mission is to improve life by enabling innovation in electronic products, is hiring a Quality Engineer at our Ridgeway, SC location. THE ROLE The Quality Engineer effectively provides engineering support to lead company efforts in implementing new or improved systems to prevent re-occurring customer complaints, reduce non-conformities and breakdowns in the quality system. GENERAL PURPOSE OF JOB: Ensuring products and processes meet quality standards and customer requirements.

Requirements

Military Standards.
B.S. degree in Engineering and 3-5 years experience in Quality Assurance.
ASQC certified Quality Engineer.
Candidates will have knowledge of quality management principles and quality engineering.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Ability to work in a fast-pace environment and multi-task.
Ability to work in fast pace environment.
Ability to work effectively under pressure.
Ability to work effectively with people at all levels within the organization.
Quality Systems Experience.
ISO 9001.

Nice To Haves

ASQC, CQE or CQM Certification recommended.
Certified Lead Auditor or Black Belt is desired.
Prefer direct experience in Engineering /Manufacturing/Quality management in High volume, PWB or High Performance Material's Operations.

Responsibilities

Lead efforts to dramatically reduce customer complaints.
Handle day to day internal and external quality issues.
Set up systems to improve plant metrics.
Establish systems to create a continuous improvement infra structure throughout the company.
Drives change, removes barriers and promotes creativity, bias for action.
Lead company efforts in implementing new or improved systems to prevent re-occurring customer complaints and breakdowns in the quality system.
Review, approve, and monitor all plants performance against customer quality standards.
Provide quality engineering support to the plant.
Perform other duties as assigned by supervisors and management.
Apply statistical methods/analysis to improve process capability, reduce process variation and achieve breakthrough performance.
Lead problem-solving efforts to improve and eliminate waste-reduce cost of poor quality.
Provide technical and engineering support on an ongoing basis to process teams and other areas as needed.
Monitor, teach and coach production workers who are involved in the Quality System.
Follow all safety policies and procedures in accordance with policies and local, state, and federal laws.
Adhere to all quality standards per Isola policy.
Participate in training, events and projects.
Contribution to the achievement of plant quality related KPI's (Key Performance Indicators).
Continuous improvement on the ISO Quality System.
Meet all safety, quality, production and on-time metrics.
Be a driving force on all plant initiative projects.
Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated leadership and communication skills.