Quality Engineer

Essity•Manchester, CT

45d•$70,000 - $80,000•Onsite

About The Position

Essity Health and Medical Solutions North America is seeking a Quality Engineer to join our team at our Manchester, CT location. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the effective handling of customer complaints and maintaining the integrity of material and product specifications. You will lead internal audits for the Integrated Management System and drive continuous improvement initiatives across processes and quality systems.

Requirements

Relevant experience in quality engineering, manufacturing, or a related discipline
Safety Awareness
Leadership & Influencing skills
Decision making
Conflict management
Effective Communication skills
Prioritization
Time management
Delegation
Advanced Problem solving skills
Stakeholder management skills
Analytical skills
Customer focus
Learning Agility
Coaching skills

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Quality, or a related technical field

Responsibilities

Works within Essity safety standards, with responsibility for personal and others' safe.
Assures legal compliance in quality matters.
Develops standards for Quality measurements in Laboratory and on the Lines.
Secures the availability and the right implementation of standard documentation.
Keeps the specifications for material and product / article specifications updated.
Develops the capabilities tools to assure the right follow up of processes and products and trains RST, quality department and operation crews regarding quality subjects e.g. product specification, quality checks, SPC, validation routines etc.
Supports continuous improvement following Daily Direction Setting (DDS) zero loss flowchart or/and SGA/FI in line with Business Needs.
Reports consumer complaints and Quality KPI’s to Site, Unit and more specific to Production Lines.
Identifies and make available quality improvements and performs quality benchmarks between Lines, Teams and other factories.
Supports the Process Engineers and Technical Team in the impact on improvements in Quality issues.

Benefits

United Healthcare PPO
EyeMed Vision Insurance
Delta Dental Insurance
Wellness program provided through Rally Healthcare
Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
401(k) with employer match and annual employer base contribution
Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Employee Assistance Program
PTO offering with Paid Holidays
Voluntary benefits to include critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance
Employee discounts program
Scholarship program for children of Essity employees.