Quality Engineer

Worthington Steel is excited to hire a Quality Engineer 1 to join our team.

This role designs quality standards, defines, monitors, and improves processes needed to meet customer and regulatory requirements. They are responsible for identification of problems and implementation of preventive and corrective actions for suppliers, customers, and internal processes. This role leads and mentors others in use of quality tools and data analysis. The position is responsible for maintaining quality software applications and processes while developing and implementing new processes to achieve evolving business objectives. This position will be responsible for evaluating the viability of implementing the quality system across the organization and leading the integration activities at facilities.

Key Position Results (Examples: Accurate financial reporting, timely issue resolution, etc.)

• Compliance to customer, regulatory and quality standards (IATF, ISO, AIAG, ASTM, etc.)
• Achievement of quality team and facility objectives; improving trends for performance metrics (e.g. PPM)
• Identification and resolution of technical and operational problems through data analytics
• Identification and mitigation of risk through process control
• Improved performance of suppliers
• Cost reductions through process efficiency

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Leads internal quality and manufacturing systems audits. Assist in training floor associates in the quality tools. Advises individuals and teams with practice and procedure development and changes.
• Enters scrap, rework, rejection, claims and inspection data.
• Collects, tracks and enters quality samples. Inspects, audits, and reports on materials, processes, and products using variable or attribute measuring instruments and techniques to ensure conformance with an organization's quality standards. Conducts gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies. Designs the methodology and resolves disposition related issues regarding rejected or aged material.
• Tests, calibrates, maintains, equipment for conformance to established standards. Manages, calibration and acquisition of scales, gages, instruments and measuring equipment.
• Collects and performs complex analysis and provides recommendations on statistical process control (SPC) data. Leads/facilitates root cause investigations and analysis and design of a root cause database

Critical Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• General knowledge of applicable standards, regulations and customer requirements
• General knowledge of internal processes and associated controls
• General understanding of quality systems
• Application of auditing principles and processes
• Project management
• Advanced math and statistics
• Advanced computer usage
• Advanced understanding of product and customer requirements
• Intermediate understanding of metallurgical concepts
• General understanding of APQP and Quality tools
• Above-average ability to build relationships / communicate
• Above-average problem solving / critical thinking capability
• Above-average Self-Motivation (Desire for continual improvement)

Education/Training Preferred

• Bachelor in Engineering or related degree
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certification or ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)