Quality Engineer

Gates Corporation • Siloam Springs, AR

60d • Onsite

About The Position

As an innovation leader, we look for ambitious, forward thinking, open-minded and well-rounded individuals to join our global team. Located in our Siloam Springs, Arkansas plant, you will be a Quality Engineer. As a Quality Engineer you will facilitate activities to develop team members, enhance customer satisfaction, and implement innovative solutions to challenges and process improvements within assigned manufacturing value streams.

Requirements

• Quality Engineer

Responsibilities

• Responsible for assuring quality in all phases of the manufacturing value stream from raw material supply to customers' utilization.
• Work cross-functionally with peers and Gates management in developing and executing Advanced Product Quality Plans (APQP) for new & existing products.
• Drive execution of quality initiatives and corrective and preventative actions (CAPA) across the assigned manufacturing value streams to achieve strategic quality improvement priorities.
• Guide root cause investigation and corrective actions/resolution of customer and supplier quality incidents in compliance with industry best practice 'closed loop' methodologies and Gates Quality Management System requirements.
• Complete warranty part failure analysis and implementation of corrective action as determined necessary.
• Work with new product development teams and site peers in utilizing APQP based management systems to achieve Gates goals in sales growth and product vitality, while eliminating or reducing risk of scrap, rework, and defect escapes.
• Complete internal quality system audits (E.g. ISO9001, IATF16949) as assigned within the plant Internal QMS audit program.
• Complete product audits and corrective actions and participate in the plant's Layered Process Audit (LPA) program.
• Support Gates supplier quality through supplier corrective action process.
• Support the plant in establishing process controls, error proofing, etc. on critical to quality characteristics for assigned value streams.
• Assist the PPAP coordinator in the coordination of PPAP submissions as necessary for part qualification with customers in your value stream.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance and other voluntary benefit options
• Benefits begin on the first day of the month immediately following your date of hire
• Eligible for 3 weeks of paid vacation, additionally 8 sick days
• 11 paid holidays
• 401(k): company matching up to 6%
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Discounts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed