Quality Engineer 1st Shift

Valence Surface Technologies•Burrell Township, PA

69d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Engineer is responsible for reviewing, creating, and approving Process Routers before they are released to production. This role ensures all customer and design authority specification requirements are met. The engineer acts as a liaison between the Estimating and Quality departments to ensure paperwork compliance and accurate quality testing pricing. They also communicate with production to verify the viability of Process Routers and implement necessary changes. This position involves submittal of Technical Plans to major customers, creating repair procedures for non-conforming products, and assisting in resolving customer technical issues. The engineer will support the Quality Engineering Supervisor and/or Manager on special projects and customer-related quality matters, and assist in internal audits. Responsibilities include maintaining matrices and statistics on process router development, developing new approaches to quality assurance problems, and maintaining a mastery of quality assurance standards and specifications. The role also involves analyzing periodic testing data, including trend analysis, and operating testing equipment such as XRF, Hardness Machines, Metallographic, CMM, gages, and salt spray & humidity equipment. Training of inspection/testing personnel may also be required.

Requirements

Develops new approaches to solve problems identified during quality assurance activities.
Develops & maintains a mastery knowledge of customer, government and industry quality assurance standards and specifications.
Analysis of periodic testing data, including trend analysis.
Proper operation of testing equipment as required by specification, e.g. XRF, Hardness Machines, Metallographic, CMM, gages, salt spray & humidity.

Nice To Haves

Assisting the Quality Supervisor in training of inspection/testing personnel as needed.

Responsibilities

Review, create, & approve Process Routers prior to release to production.
Verify all customer & design authority specification requirements are achieved prior to Process Router approval.
Act as a liaison between the Estimating and Quality departments to verify paperwork compliance and add quality testing pricing if required.
Communicate and collaborate with production to ensure Process Routers are viable and to implement necessary specification and customer-compliant changes.
Submit Technical Plans to General Electric, Rolls-Royce, PWA & other customers prior to processing parts.
Create repair procedures for non-conforming products and customer returns.
Assist in resolving customer technical questions/problems.
Assist Quality Engineering Supervisor and/or Manager on special projects and customer-related quality issues as assigned.
Assist in internal audits as requested by Valence schedules and procedures.
Maintain matrix and statistics on process routers development routers.
Develop new approaches to solve problems identified during quality assurance activities.
Develop & maintain a mastery knowledge of customer, government and industry quality assurance standards and specifications.
Analyze periodic testing data, including trend analysis.
Properly operate testing equipment as required by specification (e.g., XRF, Hardness Machines, Metallographic, CMM, gages, salt spray & humidity).
Assist the Quality Supervisor in training of inspection/testing personnel as needed.