Quality Engineer

Lincolnshire, IL 60089

Employment Type: Permanent Job Category: Quality Engineering Job Number: Dj327206107 Compensation: $90000-105000 / year

Job Description

Job Title:  Quality Engineer
Location:  Lincolnshire, IL area
Hire Type:  Direct Hire

Overview:
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Job Summary:
The Quality Engineer ensures continuous quality compliance and improvement within a medical device manufacturing environment. This person will monitor ongoing manufacturing operations to ensure that quality issues are quickly addressed.  Will create and maintain quality documentation, as required.

Job Duties:
  • Ensures compliance of customer requirements, industry standards, and safety in the workplace.
  • Educate operators and production associations on quality and compliance procedures.
  • Will interface with customers on quality related matters and improve incoming customer inquiries to reduce Return Material Authorizations (RMAs).
  • Support customer audits.
  • Understands and follows company quality policy guidelines, customer specifications and adheres to regulatory compliance.
  • Focus on eliminating scrap. Keeps supervisors informed and escalates issues when needed.
  • Drive Proactive Continuous Improvement on Yield & Quality Metrics by designing templates for documents, file types, and document databases.
  • Drive cross-functional teams to deliver continous improvement activities for internal processes and deliverables.
  • Provide supervision and guidance to Quality Assurance Inspectors and Technicians.
  • Guide Quality Assurance operators, group leaders, and technicians in ongoing quality improvement activities.

Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s Degree is required, preferably in an Engineering field.
  • Relevant previous work experience in Quality Engineering within a manufacturing environment is required.
  • Understanding and experience with manufacturing quality tools and processes (e.g., CAPA, FMEA, PPAP, etc.)
  • Ability to work well in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
  • Strong ability to identify and solve problems proactively using structured problem-solving tools, including making timely and effective decisions.
  • Ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze, interpret, validate, and communicate data to key stakeholders.
  • Any Quality Certifications are a plus (e.g., Six Sigma, CQE, etc.).
  • Experience working in a highly-regulated industry is preferred (e.g., medical device, automotive, aerospace, defense, etc.)

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

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