Quality Engineer

Overview

Filtran is seeking a highly motivated Quality Engineer to ensure the consistent delivery of high-quality products and processes. The Quality Engineer will be responsible for ensuring that our products and services meet or exceed our customers' expectations for quality, reliability, and performance. The Quality Engineer will work closely with the production team to identify and resolve any quality issues that arise during the manufacturing process. Additionally, the Quality Engineer will collaborate with the suppliers to ensure successful new program launches and manage their performance. We are looking for a dynamic candidate responsible for driving quality initiatives within our supply chain and internal manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:

• Possesses strong hands-on experience conducting root cause analysis and implementing corrective & preventive actions for customer and supplier related issues, using core tools like 8D, 5 Why, FMEA and Ishikawa.
• Ensures quality deliverables are met throughout APQP and new program launch phases
• Maintains audit schedules to conduct on-site QMS (ISO 9001/IATF 16949) and layered process audits, as well as supplier assessments, to verify adherence to quality standards.
• Perform inspections of warranty returns for root cause and failure analysis reports to customers
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining quality documentation, including procedures, work instructions, PFMEA and control plans.
• Manage supplier performance by developing scorecards/ metrics and improvement plans for achieving 100% quality.
• Collaborate with procurement to qualify new suppliers and manage supplier performance.
• Oversees Material Review Board (MRB) activities and disposition of parts on hold
• Lead quality improvement projects to reduce defects and cost of poor quality (scrap, rework, and warranty)
• Train production personnel on quality standards and procedures
• Experience managing customer communications including issue resolution and relationship building.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality and customer satisfaction
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field
• Experience in Quality Engineering or related engineering field
• Solid knowledge & understanding of metrology and GD&T
• Knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Data Analysis using Minitab or similar.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience using MS Office (Excel, Word, Power Point)
• Able to travel (domestic) 5% - 10%
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• 5 years of experience in quality engineering, preferably in the automotive industry
• In-depth understanding of injection molding processes and equipment
• Strong knowledge of quality management systems and AIAG core tools (e.g., IATF 16949, ISO 14001, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA, SPC).
• Currently a Quality Engineer at a manufacturer of industrial and automotive electromechanical assemblies
• Proven experience in supplier quality management and development
• Excellent problem-solving skills (8D, Fishbone, 3x5 why)
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Lean Six Sigma or higher
• Bilingual: English/Spanish
  
  

Qualifications

More About Filtration Group

Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we are driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry. We are committed to maintaining an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and in which our leaders exhibit a strong bias for action.

The Company began in 2009 and has rapidly grown organically and through a thoughtful acquisition strategy to be a global leader in the highly attractive filtration industry. Filtration Group has the broadest portfolio of solutions in the industry and has had a particular focus on building a leading platform of solutions focused on the Life Sciences and Indoor Air Quality end markets which are rapidly growing in the current market environment. Filtration Group produces mission critical products with high replacement rates. Over 80 percent of the Company’s revenue comes from replacement / consumable products, many of which are specified into customer’s products or processes. With revenues over $2 billion, Filtration Group is consistently recognized as the fastest growing and one of the largest filtration businesses in the world and has a global footprint of 141 facilities in 28 countries. Filtration Group has over 10,000 employees who are united in their Mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive.