Quality Engineer

Carboline•Vernon Hills, IL

17h•$80,000 - $95,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Engineer is responsible for providing technical support for the corporate quality team. The role will work with our internal quality teams to work on continuous improvement activities as well as supporting new product activities. They will take leadership of our Product Complaint Review (PCR) process, where they will analyze consumer complaint data and identify opportunities for improvement in our products that will drive improved customer and consumer satisfaction. This individual will work closely with our corporate and plant quality teams, as well as manufacturing and R&D.

Requirements

0-3+ years of experience (in a manufacturing setting) or equivalent process industry or consumer products manufacturing experience.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Chemical and/or Mechanical preferred) or Chemistry.
Proficient in MS office, Statistical analysis (Minitab, etc).
SAP experience desirable.

Nice To Haves

Experience in lean, six sigma or other continuous improvement methodologies

Responsibilities

Work with plant and corporate quality teams on management of quality projects and new product launches.
Risk assessments on new product launches.
Design and implementation of new quality processes.
Statistical assessments of process capabilities and identification of opportunities for improvement.
Analyze product complaint data, identify opportunities for improvement and work across cross-functional teams to drive improvements. Will include In depth analysis of customer complaint data in excel, identification of poorly performing products from the data analysis and engaging the brand and R&D teams to identify possible product improvements.
Support day-to-day management of quality incidents, processes, etc. through data analysis and utilization of root cause analysis.