Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline or equivalent
• Professional accreditation: American Society for Quality (ASQ), Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) and/or Certified Quality Manager (CQM)
• 3 – 5 years of related quality assurance or manufacturing work experience is preferred
• Ability to shut down any machine if it poses an imminent danger to employee’s health and/or safety
• Ability to shut down any machine because of a quality problem so suspect material can be contained
• Ability to shut down any machine if it is down three items in one hour for the same mechanical problem
• Authority to contact any staff or management team member with concerns, questions or suggestions pertaining to their job or work environment

Responsibilities

• Ensures operations are completed in accordance with Amcor Rigid Plastic’s safety procedures and ensures team members are working in a safe manner
• Identifies and corrects unsafe work practices and procedures
• Communicate with and visit customer to understand the performance of our product and evaluate their production process to enhance performance
• Develop personnel to understand SPC and the impact it has on the production process
• Continually assess plant operations to determine priority procedures
• Responsible for the overall direction of the quality systems and food safety protocol including continuous improvement evaluation of all department personnel
• Prepare, review, and evaluate data and information
• Develop recommendations for use by plant management
• Utilize quality techniques to reduce process variations or refine process parameters based upon results
• Assist in problem solving through use of statistical analysis and utilization of quality tools
• Lead and promote problem solving teams to perform root cause analysis and failure investigations
• Assist in tracking and trending of corrective and preventative actions to ensure items are closed out on a timely basis
• Alert management of potential quality problems to assure that defective product or raw materials are not used or shipped to the customer
• Highlight training needs within the facility and act as a trained trainer for relevant instruction needs
• Assist in development of standard operating procedures, work instructions and form control documents
• Assist with customer complaint investigations and vendor incident notifications
• Maintain food safety and compliance documentation
• Responsible for the upkeep of records and documents that correspond to regulatory, customer, and third party audit requirements
• Maintain a program of instrument calibration
• Coordinate department activities and supervise the assigned Quality Auditors during the absence of the Quality Lead and at other times as directed by the Quality Manager or Plant Manager
• Demonstrates organizational ability to complete daily assignments as required to meet internal and external customer requirements in a concise detailed manner
• Performs other related duties as directed by plant manager or quality manager

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Accreditation in Quality Engineering and Systems is strongly preferred
• 3 – 5 years of related quality assurance or manufacturing work experience is preferred