Quality Engineer

Premium Guard Inc. (PGI); Albion (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Premium Guard Inc. (PGI) is hiring a Quality Engineer for their Albion, IL location. The role focuses on facilitating OE customer issues, providing quality systems, and ensuring ISO/TS 16949 compliance while collaborating with various departments.

The ideal candidate will have 4-5 years of experience, strong statistical and design engineering skills, and the ability to support customer needs effectively. Travel may be required to customer sites to ensure quality standards.

Qualifications

• Four to five years of job-related experience.
• Extensive experience in controlling quality and customer requirements.
• Knowledge of design-engineering characteristics and geometric tolerances.
• Ability to apply statistical methods for process capability.

Responsibilities

• Support all company policies relating to quality and safety.
• Lead APQP process with quality engineering activities.
• Manage product management of new programs.
• Conduct timely follow-up of quality problems.

Skills

Quality control

Communication skills

Statistical methods

Design engineering interpretation

Tools

PFMEA

DFMEA

Job description

Overview

Premium Guard, Inc, a privately held company, established in 1996. We are a leading supplier of private label solutions in the automotive aftermarket. We design, manufacture and distribute products for automotive, diesel, power-sports and specialty filter markets. We are hiring a Quality Engineer for our Albion, IL location. The Quality Engineer is primarily concerned with facilitating OE Customer issues and providing quality systems and programs to support continuous improvement efforts. The role evaluates quality resolution efforts, maintains data and records to inform department heads about product characteristics needed to meet customer and corporate requirements, and coordinates quality system control plans across suppliers, in-process activities, and customer levels to ensure consistency throughout the corporate structure.

This position supports standardizing quality reports to customer accounts and ensures procedures meet ISO/TS 16949 and customer-specific standards, along with other elements of the quality system as required by management. It also monitors quality system metrics to identify supplier, internal, and external concerns, and administers quality assessments for supplier and internal audits. The incumbent uses advanced quality planning techniques and statistical methods to meet customer requirements and ensure process capability, preparing final reports and modifications as needed.

The role involves collaboration with Quality Engineering Manager and other departments, frequent contact with customers and sales representatives, handling customer complaints, and coordinating responses for resolution (e.g., 5-Why, 8-D Root Cause). Travel to customer sites may be required. The incumbent will become familiar with customer-specific requirements in manuals and online resources, and coordinate with Quality Control, Manufacturing, and Purchasing to ensure a smooth transition to production of new programs.

The Quality Engineer should have knowledge of product design engineering and be able to interpret design-engineering characteristics and geometric tolerance drawings. The role may involve recommending staffing, quality standards, and cost reductions, reviewing new filter designs to ensure quality characteristics can be met, and maintaining communication to sell quality improvements internally and externally.

Responsibilities

• Support all company policies, procedures, and programs relating to personnel, quality, safety, and environmental issues.
• Support the APQP process with quality engineering activities.
• Take leadership role in product management of new programs.
• Initiate cost savings review projects to eliminate waste in process and design.
• Provide rapid and meaningful investigation of special projects/assignments to assist management in developing solutions to quality problem areas.
• Contribute to improve departmental capability by providing arbitration, guidance, direction and training to support personnel in other departments.
• Ensure customer satisfaction by being responsive to their needs and conducting timely follow-up of quality problems and/or statistical controls. Work with customers, through Sales and Engineering under the direction of the Quality Engineering Manager and Plant Manager.

Qualifications

• Four to five years of job-related experience or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in controlling quality, customer requirements, processes and product capabilities.
• Knowledge of product design engineering and the ability to interpret design-engineering characteristics and geometric tolerancing.
• Ability to work with PFMEA’s, DFMEA’s and metrological techniques, and to apply statistical methods to ensure target process capability.
• Strong communication skills to coordinate with internal teams and external customers.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed.