Quality Engineer
- Full-time
Company Description
Spartanburg Steel Products is a major supplier of metal stampings and welded sub-assemblies for automotive, lawn & garden, agricultural, and construction equipment OEMs throughout the United States:
* Motivated, experienced, and stable team, ready to execute.
* Stamping press tonnage from 200 to 2000 metric tons.
* Transfer, tandem, and progressive production lines.
* SSP is IATF 16949:2016 and ISO 14001-2015 certified.
* Industry leading quality and delivery PPM performance.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned and changed as needed):
• Development of standard process controls for new product launches
o Performs quality planning in assigned production area utilizing FMEA and Control Plan tools.
o Participates in Tooling design for stamping dies, weld fixtures and inspection gages, ensuring process controls identified in FMEA and CP are implemented.
o Develops product and process inspection plans for production monitoring.
o Trains production and quality associates on use of product and process inspections
• Lead auditing process for assigned production area
o Develop audit checklist to validate process adherence. Train other auditors on effective audits.
o Develop audit schedule to review all processes on multiple shifts.
o Conduct process audits investigating all areas of production process; raw material, equipment settings, poke yokes, document control, non-conforming product management.
• Lead problem solving process for assigned production area
o Leads improvement teams using skills in project management, problem solving and continuous improvement.
o Verifies solutions are effective, installed and maintained going forward, preventing recurrence.
o Coach to production teams ensuring corrective actions are closed on time, training associates on use of problem solving tools
Primary Objectives
New Programs:
• Develop part specific FMEAs quickly allowing for consideration during tooling design.
• Develop Control Plans that define all process and product controls using those to define Product/Part Inspection Plans.
• Participate in cross-functional pre-production trials.
• Trains all associates responsible on execution of process controls.
• Establishes boundary samples and content for quality monitors communicating risk to production associates.
General Responsibilities
• Lead process improvements activities using engineering skills for assigned parts.
• Maintain close contact with production counterparts to assure product quality requirements are met.
• Develop systems to monitor product performance to assure internal and external failures are reduced and eliminated.
• Implement system and procedural requirements for IATF-16949.
• Lead customer complaint corrective actions utilizing A3 or similar structured problem solving tools.
• Lead and support problem solving and project cross-functional teams as assigned or appropriate.
• Implement statistical monitoring or SPC as appropriate to process.
Qualifications
• Prefer experience in metal stamping and welding industries.
• Analytical problem solving experience. A3 or another structured problem solving approach.
• Experience with APQP / PPAP / Control Plans / FMEA’s / GR&R / Cp/CpK / Prints and Drawings
• Engineering or Technical Degree
• Knowledge of IATF quality systems
• Knowledge of or experience in a Lean manufacturing environment
• Excellent communication skills
• High comfort level with web-based inspection software and Microsoft suite.
• Statistical process monitoring using SPC or other techniques.
• Lean Manufacturing
• Ability to manage cross-functional teams to resolve problems
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.