Quality Engineer

Position: Quality Engineer, Metal Fabrication

Location: Greater Milwaukee, WI

Position: #655

Interested in growing your engineering career with a leading privately held and growing metal fabricator?

Are you a quality engineering professional with experience working in a metal fabrication and assembly-oriented manufacturing environment and looking to take the next step career wise? If so, let's connect!

Our client is a leading privately held and growing metal fabricator. In this newly created quality engineering role, you will report directly to the corporate Director of Engineering and have responsibility for updating and implementing a new quality system in a high mix, low unit, production volume metal fabrication environment.

Client Overview

• A growing and profitable privately held organization that specializes in designing and manufacturing custom process machinery
• For more than 100 years, our client has built a reputation for engineering innovation that now includes energy generating and recovery features and preventative maintenance software to increase machine uptime
• Based in suburban Chicago with 2 manufacturing facilities to serve customers for custom and standard equipment needs

Position Overview

• Responsible for updating and implementing the facility quality control system
• Document and communication of manufacturing issues to the engineering team
• Document and communicate field service and / or customer issues to engineering and manufacturing teams
• Perform in process and final inspections of manufactured equipment and components while communicating deviations to the appropriate departments
• Verify and inspect all incoming materials and components while communicating discrepancies to procurement and manufacturing
• Responsible for creating and updating all incoming materials, in-process, and final inspection procedures
• Recommend updates and modifications to existing quality and production specifications to improve overall quality
• On an ongoing basis, actively work with team members to improve productivity, enhance processes and reduce costs

Candidate Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering preferred
• Previous experience in a quality control/quality assurance role ideally within a metal fabrication-oriented manufacturing setting
• Ability to read blueprints
• Knowledge of welding techniques
• Ability to travel to vendor sites as needed
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work cross-functionally
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without restrictions

Be assured that resumes will be kept strictly confidential until we speak about a specific opportunity and agreement of ours. If your experience matches our client's requirements, we will contact you immediately.