Quality Engineer

First Quality • Macon, GA

51d • Onsite

About The Position

First Quality is a family-owned company founded over 35 years ago, with a significant presence in the personal care and household product industry. The company operates multiple manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, producing a wide range of products and manufacturing certain raw materials and components. First Quality emphasizes advanced technology, innovation, continuous learning, and professional development, guided by values of humility, unity, and integrity. This specific role is for a Quality Engineer at the First Quality Baby Products site in Macon, GA. The position involves providing leadership for quality assurance support on assigned programs, ensuring products meet quality requirements, and leading new systems development and implementation. The role also includes supervising staff, performing quality testing, reviewing data for corrective actions, applying statistical methods, participating in quality initiatives, resolving customer complaints, acting as a QA contact for suppliers, participating in audits, managing quality records, developing procedures, reporting issues, presenting quality information, and observing safety and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• ASQ Certification or equivalent training (CQA or CQT required; CQE preferred).
• Familiarity with formal Quality System (ISO 9001, GMP/QSR, etc.)
• Strong communication skills.
• Demonstrated team leadership ability.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in statistics, procedure implementation, and quality auditing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Supervises the activities, performance review and disciplinary actions of assigned staff.
• Understands and performs quality testing according to approved procedures.
• Regularly reviews quality data to identify opportunity for corrective & preventive action.
• Ensures that statistical methods are applied to testing, validation, sampling and inspection activities and quality investigations.
• Participates in and leads teams in quality system improvement, new product development, cost savings, and other quality initiatives.
• Coordinates the resolution of customer complaints/non-conformance issues.
• Acts as primary QA contact in supplier assessment and raw material qualification activities.
• Participates in internal and customer audits of the quality system.
• Oversees proper use and control of QA Department quality records.
• Devises or revises procedures related to the Quality Management System.
• Reports significant issues or developments identified during quality activities and provides recommended process improvements to management.
• Prepares and presents quality system information to team members.
• Performs laboratory tours and provides Quality System explanations to visitors.
• Observes all safety rules and uses the proper safety equipment at all times.
• Follows necessary GMP, and regulatory requirements.
• Performs other duties as necessary when directed to do so.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (three-week minimum)
• Medical, dental and vision starting day one
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
• Bundle of joy benefit (year's worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
• Tuition assistance
• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level