Quality Engineer

QPS Employment Group; Rockford (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Accelerate Professional Talent Solutions is seeking a Quality Engineer in Rockford, IL for a direct hire. The role focuses on ensuring compliance from design through manufacturing and product support, and working with customers to address quality concerns.

Responsibilities include handling deviations, reviewing contracts for quality requirements, driving corrective actions, coordinating internal audits, and supporting supplier quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or quality, or minimum 5 years of progressive experience in a quality role.
• Solid working knowledge of ISO9001, AS9102, and AS9100 standards.
• Advanced knowledge of GD&T and measurement systems.
• Experience applying corrective action methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Respond to customer requests for quality data and information.
• Develop, submit, and track deviations/waivers for nonconforming material.
• Review quotes and contracts for quality requirements.
• Coordinate with internal departments to ensure quality requirements are met.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective action for customer issues.
• Support supplier quality audits and supplier performance improvements.
• Develop PPAP documents for new/existing programs.
• Provide daily technical assistance to inspection and testing personnel.

Skills

Root cause analysis

Quality mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or quality

5+ years of related experience

Tools

ISO 9001

AS9102

AS9100

GD&T

Job description

Position Title: Quality Engineer

Salary: $75,000 - $85,000/year

Accelerate Professional Talent Solutions has a great opportunity available for a Quality Engineer at a company in Rockford, IL. This is a direct hire position.

The primary role of the Quality Engineer is to ensure compliance throughout the organization on assigned programs or customers from product design through manufacturing and product support. The Quality Engineer will work directly with customers to ensure their quality concerns and needs are appropriately identified, communicated and resolved.

Quality Engineer Responsibilities:

• Respond to customer requests in a timely manner for quality data and information (return goods status, corrective action responses, advance ship data, action item status, etc.)
• Develop, submit, and track requests for deviations/waivers stemming from nonconforming material
• Review quotes and new P.O. contracts for quality requirements
• Provide necessary input and concerns to appropriate internal departments ensuring that quality requirements are flowed to affected departments in a thorough and timely manner
• Review customer supplied quality ratings and report to management
• Analyze data and with general or limited supervision, to take appropriate corrective action to address negative trends
• Coordinate and sponsor customer driven continuous improvement programs
• Prepare program unique quality plans, as necessary, to meet customer contractual requirements
• Lead teams within the organization in the development and verification of effective root cause and corrective actions stemming from customer related issues
• Provide appropriate level of communication to customer on progress of corrective actions
• Attain Designated Quality Representative (DQR) status with customers
• Perform compliance audits to customer requirements as defined on current P.O's
• Document audit results and coordinate required corrective actions
• Perform assessments and internal audits on personnel, processes, and procedures to ensure compliance to specifications, procedures, and industry standards
• Develop Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) documentation for new and existing programs (MSA, Capability Studies, etc.)
• Audit suppliers, monitor supplier performance, and work with suppliers to improve when needed
• Review and approve new and/or revised Operator Plans
• Provide day-to-day technical assistance to personnel inspecting and testing product

Requirements for Quality Engineer:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, quality or other related field, or minimum 5 years of progressive experience working in a comparable capacity
• Solid working knowledge of ISO9001, AS9102, and AS9100 standards
• Advance knowledge of GD&T
• Knowledge in multiple systematized approaches to corrective action methodologies