Quality Engineer I: Process Improvement & Analytics

Toyoda Gosei Americas; Perryville (MO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Toyoda Gosei Americas is seeking a Quality Engineer to monitor and improve quality standards for our production facility and inspection lab. The role requires investigation of non-conformances, implementation and verification of corrective actions, and collaboration with customers and engineering teams to drive improvements.

The ideal candidate has a 4-year engineering degree or equivalent, 1–2 years of related experience, and strong people skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent.
• 1-2 years related experience and/or training.
• CQE certification after 3 years of experience recommended.

Responsibilities

• Monitors and improves the quality standards for production facility and the inspection lab.
• Provides immediate cause investigation to internal and external non conformances.
• Assists in implementing corrective action and follows up to ensure corrective action has taken place.
• Ensures corrective action is effective.
• Works as a team to assist in training production and inspection on quality standards.
• Applies statistical techniques and design of experiments to determine cause and countermeasure activities in response to non conformances and line improvement projects.
• Interacts with the customer, production, inspection and engineering to determine and provide feedback on causes and corrective action for non conformances.
• Monitors and/or assists with the corrective action implementation.
• Obtains customer approval by providing part submissions to the customer for process improvements, process changes and engineering changes for products in mass production.
• Monitors production process to ensure effectiveness of corrective action.
• Applies statistical techniques to evaluate effectiveness and feasibility of inspection standards as needed.
• Obtains product and part history knowledge by working with the preproduction quality engineer during high volume production trials and during start of production.

Skills

People skills

Quality standards

Statistical methods

Education

4-year engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

Toyoda Gosei Americas is seeking a Quality Engineer to monitor and improve quality standards for our production facility and inspection lab. The role requires investigation of non-conformances, implementation and verification of corrective actions, and collaboration with customers and engineering teams to drive improvements.

The ideal candidate has a 4-year engineering degree or equivalent, 1–2 years of related experience, and strong people skills.