Manufacturing Process Quality Engineer

Core Duties

• Technical resource for on-going production activities: monitoring, establishing & improving production quality, general production support, documentation & analysis of production KPIs.
• Collaborate with Quality team to ensure quality metrics are achieved and develop cadence for communication to internal and external stakeholders.
• Developing site specific quality processes and collaborate with Quality team to establish training process.
• Responsible for reviewing safety standards to ensure the Internal and External stakeholders are properly meeting these guidelines.
• Leads site specific quality improvement, yield improvement & corrective action projects with internal and external stakeholders.
• Recommends manufacturing processes designed to be efficient, cost-effective, and to promote quality and reliability.
• Assesses current equipment and processes and makes recommendations for changes. Helps to troubleshoot and repair equipment. Shows results in reports. May train personnel in equipment usage and processes.
• Collaborate with research and development team as technologies transition to pilot & scale-up environments to ensure a successful commercialization.
• Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial or Materials Engineering preferred; in lieu of a degree, candidates with significant operational coatings or films experience are encouraged to apply.
• 5+ years of industry experience preferred.
• Ideal candidates will have polymer films or coatings experience with significant involvement in process engineering, production operations and/or quality control environments.
• Analytical skills for troubleshooting designs not working as planned, asking the right questions, and finding answers that work.
• Familiarity with statistics & hypothesis-driven problem-solving methodologies; for example: Six Sigma, DOE, 8D, DMAIC, Lean, etc.
• Interpersonal skills developing positive working relationships with other employees based on a cross functional team
• Desire to lead projects with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Process-orientation with an attention to detail.