Plant Quality Engineer - Lead Quality & Process Improvement

BGF Industries; Altavista (VA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

BGF Industries is seeking a Plant Quality Engineer in Altavista, VA to ensure products meet customer and company requirements. You will monitor quality performance, drive improvements, and support corrective actions across production, lab, and supplier interactions.

The role requires a BS in Science/Engineering, 2–3 years in manufacturing, and ISO 9001:2015 auditing familiarity. Join a team focused on quality, compliance, and continuous improvement in a manufacturing setting.

Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail and quality-focused mindset.
• Familiarity with manufacturing environments and quality systems.

Responsibilities

• Meet with Altavista Quality Manager to communicate on quality, production and scheduling; provide status updates on open quality concerns, customer issues, non-conforming material, trials, corrective actions, and coordination with Production, Inspection, Lab, or other support functions.
• Perform duties of the lab clerk during their absence at the site; verify required test and inspection information is complete, maintain material status, and coordinate holds/releases per specifications.
• Maintain Customer Specification Database; ensure current customer requirements, specification revisions, test methods, acceptance criteria, and related quality information are communicated to affected departments.
• Manage Customer Corrective Action Requests (CAR) process; coordinate containment, investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective action, response, effectiveness verification, and closure within due dates.
• Work with Manufacturing and Inspection areas to improve defects and non-conforming material; review trends, support containment and disposition, identify causes, and coordinate prevention actions.
• Gather data to analyze trends and quality issues; develop and maintain trend reports and SPC tools for key material and product characteristics; identify shifts or out-of-control conditions.
• Work with plant manufacturing to reduce seconds and customer returns; identify leading causes, scrap, rework and verify improvements.
• Visit and work with customers and vendors on quality issues; support investigations, specification clarification, process reviews, supplier/customer visits, and document actions for closure.
• Initiate, monitor and report on trials; coordinate sampling and testing, evaluate results, and document conclusions and follow-up actions.
• Assist with work instruction review and updates to reflect current specifications and practices; support controlled updates.
• Perform department set-up sheet audits; verify settings, material identification, quality checks, and documentation.
• Work with R&D on new product development; support quality requirements, coordination of inspection/testing, and transition to routine production.
• Maintain M3 specs as required; update quality attributes, specifications, tolerances, testing requirements and revisions.
• Monitor statistical data for product attributes; identify trends and communicate findings for corrective action.
• Support other plant quality projects, audits, and improvement activities as assigned.
• Communicate quality performance to manufacturing areas to aid corrective action and continuous improvement.

Skills

Attention to detail

Quality mindset

Manufacturing environment

Education

Bachelors of Science Degree

BS in Engineering or Scientific Discipline

Job description

BGF Industries is seeking a Plant Quality Engineer in Altavista, VA to ensure products meet customer and company requirements. You will monitor quality performance, drive improvements, and support corrective actions across production, lab, and supplier interactions.

The role requires a BS in Science/Engineering, 2–3 years in manufacturing, and ISO 9001:2015 auditing familiarity. Join a team focused on quality, compliance, and continuous improvement in a manufacturing setting.