Quality Engineer

Job Description

The Quality Engineer's primary responsibility is ensuring products or systems meet defined quality standards. This involves developing and implementing quality control systems, conducting inspections, and testing, and analyzing data to identify and resolve defects. The Quality Engineer also plays a crucial role in improving processes and ensuring compliance with regulations and customer requirements.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES include the following. Additional assignments will vary accordingly.

· Developing and implementing quality standards: Define quality metrics and standards, develop inspection plans, and implement quality control systems.

· Ensuring product quality: Inspect and test materials, equipment, processes, and products to ensure they meet specifications.

· Problem solving and improvement: Lead problem solving teams, work to identify root causes of quality issues, make recommendations and implement corrective actions, and develop solutions to improve processes.

· Monitoring and Analyzing Quality Performance: Track quality performance, analyze data and report on findings.

· Compliance and Audits: Ensure adherence to regulations, standards and procedures and conduct internal audits. Interpret, build upon, and comply with the company’s quality assurance standards.

· PPAPs and Annual Recertifications: Perform activities to prepare packages for full PPAP approval and for recertifications and special requests.

· Measuring Fixtures and Gauges: Develop and implement inspection equipment and processes.

· Documentation and Reporting: Prepare reports, document findings, and maintain records.

· Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with others, provide technical support, and effectively communicate and collaborate with customers and suppliers.

· Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process/part improvements and implement best practices.

· Leadership: Ability to lead APQP, PPAP, problem-solving and continuous improvement teams.

· Performs other tasks as assigned by the Quality or Engineering Manager.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of production concerning the quality of production parts. Must be able to effectively communicate with customers and suppliers.

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Two- or four-year technical degree. Working experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably in the quality area. Certified Quality Engineer training preferred. Professional certification, such as Six Sigma, CQE (certified quality engineer), internal auditor training for IATF, ISO, VDA preferred.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Must have the ability to read and interpret documents such as operating instructions, customer manuals, quality management system documents. This individual must effectively communicate in a professional manner.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Excellent math skills, understanding of statistics (SPC) and GD&T.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several variables and to make recommendations for short-term and long-term solutions. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Must be able to use calipers, micrometers, gauges, and other measuring instruments. Must be able to use an optical comparator for the measurement of parts. Mechanical and reasoning ability are needed to learn to operate other equipment used in the production function. Ability to train others in use of measuring/gauging equipment. Excellent computer proficiency.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Those described here are representative of what is required by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is often required to stand, walk, talk, and hear in a manufacturing environment.

Use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms.

The employee must often lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and average or better color vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environmental characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee often works near moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. In some instances, hearing protection may be required.

Join us in our commitment to delivering exceptional products through rigorous quality standards. We look forward to your application!

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $60,000.00 per yearCompany Description

Founded in February 1987, Vidon Plastics began its life in a small garage with scant utilities. With limited used and refurbished extruding equipment but unlimited focus and determination, Vidon Plastics began manufacturing trim for hospital beds. Excellence in quality, delivery, and support led to great customer satisfaction, the acquisition of further extrusion jobs, and a strong customer base. In the fall of 1987, Vidon Plastics became an automotive supplier. With only two employees Vidon Plastics had sales of $300,000 before the end of its first year.

Growth came rapidly. In 1988 Vidon Plastics moved into a local industrial incubator, the Enterprise Center of Lapeer. A year later, Vidon Plastics had $3,000,000 in sales and 35 employees. The small Enterprise Center of Lapeer could no longer contain the burgeoning company, and Vidon Plastics moved into a larger facility. The company’s success earned itself the 1990 Michigan Business Incubator Association’s “Annual Incubator Graduate Award.” Still growing in 1994, the new facility rapidly became inadequate. Vidon Plastics purchased a lot in the Lapeer Research and Industrial Park and constructed a 40,000 square foot building, with a 10,000 square foot addition in 1999.

In March 2003 Vidon invested in a Wire EDM machine to bring all aspects of Vidon’s custom tool fabrication in house. Click here to learn more about Vidon’s complete in-house tool design and fabrication abilities. With these increased capabilities, Vidon has been able to deliver lower lead times and reduced tooling costs to their customers, allowing the company to exceed $10,000,000 in sales for the first time ever.

Full-time