Quality Coordinator

Greenbrier Companies, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Greenbrier Companies seeks a Quality Assurance Coordinator to provide functional leadership for site quality processes, ensuring products meet Greenbrier, customer, and regulatory requirements. The role leads training, inspections, audits, and corrective actions across functions, driving standardization and continuous improvement.

The position emphasizes safety, quality, and efficiency, coordinating with plant management and cross-functional teams to maintain compliance and optimize quality

Qualifications

• Ability to help others learn and develop.
• Ability to maintain appropriate levels of confidentiality and sensitive information.
• Ability to organize and prioritize projects and information with accuracy, under tight timeframes, to meet organizational needs.
• Basic knowledge of quality assurance principles, quality control processes, and documentation requirements.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate professionally, both verbally and in writing, at all levels.
• Successful completion of a technical proficiency evaluation within 90 days of assignment to the Quality Coordinator position.

Responsibilities

• Leads product and process validations.
• Assists with improvement initiatives and Quality Team Communications.
• Assists with the implementation, oversight, and management of the Quality Assurance Program on a site level basis.
• Leads customer visits & audits.
• Manages internal/external AAR audits.
• Assesses quality workload needs and makes recommendations to the plant manager for resources to support facility Quality Assurance.
• Ensures process nonconformance’s are reported and entered into the nonconformance application, and handled to final disposition.
• Participates in continuous improvement opportunities resulting from RCA data analysis.
• Supervises and coordinates activities for quality and technical Inspections.
• Ensures adherence to Greenbrier safety policies and procedures.
• Contributes to the overall performance from the standpoints of safety, quality, profitability.
• Manages in process inspection and final inspection audits to ensure compliance with quality program.
• Facilitates root cause and corrective action processes with cross-functional operations team.
• Ensures all required customer, AAR regulatory and Greenbrier standards, specifications and instruction are maintained.
• Evaluates and coordinates with the Plant Manager and Functional Leaders the operational and quality training needs.

Skills

Mentoring ability

Confidentiality skills

Project prioritization

Quality assurance basics

Communication skills

Technical proficiency assessment

Education

College coursework or equivalent

Quality-related work experience

Tools

SmartSheet

Intelex

MS Office Suite

Job description

At Greenbrier, we do the hard work that matters. The Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) is powering the movement of products around the world as a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of freight rail transportation equipment and services.

Greenbrier’s heritage of hard work and industrial innovation is celebrated at every level of our organization. We structure our business to support teams that deliver innovative solutions for our customers while positively impacting the world around us.

Greenbrier’s success begins with people. We believe in supporting our global workforce through our unwavering attention to Safety, Quality, Respect for People and Customer Satisfaction. Our Inclusion, Diversity, Engagement, Access and Leadership (IDEAL) commitment is rooted in these values, which lead to a culture where employees are engaged and feel good about coming to work every day.

Summary

The Quality Assurance Coordinator provides functional leadership and coordination for assigned site(s) quality processes. The position works within established quality programs, standards, and procedures and does not have formal people-management training/oversight. The Quality Assurance Coordinator ensures that GBX facility products and workmanship meet Greenbrier, customer, and applicable regulatory requirements. The role leads quality initiatives such as training, technical inspections, equipment and product validation, audit support, process standardization across functions, and corrective action development, tracking, and implementation.

Duties and Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform the following essential duties satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned to address business needs and changing business practices.

• Leads product and process validations

• Assists with improvement initiatives and Quality Team Communications.

• Assists with the implementation, oversight, and management of the Quality Assurance Program on a site level basis

• Leads customer visits & audits

• Manages internal/external AAR audits

• Assesses quality workload needs and makes recommendations to the plant manager for resources to support facility Quality Assurance.

• Ensures process nonconformance’s are reported and entered into the nonconformance application, and handled to final disposition

• Participates in continuous improvement opportunities resulting from RCA data analysis

• Supervises and coordinates activities for quality and technical Inspections

• Ensures adherence to Greenbrier safety policies and procedures

• Contributes to the overall performance from the standpoints of safety, quality, profitability

• Manages in process inspection and final inspection audits to ensure compliance with quality program

• Facilitates root cause and corrective action processes with cross-functional operations team

• Ensures all required customer, AAR regulatory and Greenbrier standards, specifications and instruction are maintained

• Evaluates and coordinates with the Plant Manager and Functional Leaders the operational and quality training needs

Qualifications

The following generally describes requirements to successfully perform the assigned duties.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to help others learn and develop

• Ability to maintain appropriate levels of confidentiality and sensitive information

• Ability to organize and prioritize projects and information with accuracy, under tight timeframes, to meet organizational needs

• Basic knowledge of quality assurance principles, quality control processes, and documentation requirements

• Ability to communicate and collaborate professionally, both verbally and in writing, at all levels

• Successful completion of a technical proficiency evaluation within 90 days of assignment to the Quality Coordinator position.

Preferred Qualifications

• College level course work or equivalent and two or more years of experience in quality assurance, manufacturing, inspection, production, administrative coordination, or a related field

• Experience using SmartSheet, Intelex, or similar quality, compliance, or tracking systems

• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SmartSheet

• Working knowledge of Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and The Association of American Railroads (AAR) regulations

Work Environment and Physical Requirements

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• With the exception of clerical, administrative, and some management positions, the physical environment requires the employee to work in hot and cold environments, in and out of the weather, work safely around heavy equipment, as well as around railroad tracks.

• Employees are required to use personal protective equipment such as steel toe boots, hard hat, hearing protection, safety glasses, welding and grinding shields, etc. or as environmental conditions dictate.

Physical Activities and Requirements

Frequency Key

Not Applicable: Activity is not applicable to this occupation

Occasionally: Occupation requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0- 2.5+ hours/day)

Frequently: Occupation requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5- 5.5+ hours/day)

Constantly: Occupation requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hours/day)

Working Postures

• Sit: Frequently

• Stand: Frequently

• Walk: Frequently

• Bend: Occasionally

• Kneel/Squat: Occasionally

• Crawl: Occasionally

• Climb: Occasionally

• Reach Forward: Occasionally

• Reach Upward: Occasionally

• Handling/Fingering: Occasionally

Lift / Carry Requirements

• 5-10 lbs: Occasionally

• 10-25 lbs: Occasionally

• 25-50 lbs: Occasionally

• 50-75 lbs: Not Applicable

• 75+ lbs: Not Applicable

Push / Pull Requirements

• Up to 10 lbs: Occasionally

• 10-25 lbs: Occasionally

• 25-50 lbs: Occasionally

• 50-75 lbs: Not Applicable

• 75+ lbs: Not Applicable

EOE including Vet/Disability

Greenbrier makes reasonable accommodations in the application and hiring process for individuals with known disabilities, unless providing accommodation would result in an undue hardship. Any applicant believing that he or she may need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact Greenbrier Human Resources at [e-mail] or call us at 503-684-7000.

Email communication from The Greenbrier Companies (Greenbrier) will always come from a corporate email address that ends in @gbrx.com or from our applicant tracking system, iCIMS, after you have created a secure account and submitted your application. During the application process, you will create a secure account in our secure applicant tracking site that ends with -gbrx.icims.com. In this portal, we will ask you to provide your contact information, past employment history, education history and other job-related information.

Job Locations US-IL-Chicago Heights

ID 2026-5829

Company Gunderson Rail Services, LLC

Position Type Regular Full-Time

Category Quality/Safety

Workplace Type Onsite