Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Akron, OH

401K, bonus potential and profit sharing!

Elevate your career in a high-impact leadership role that offers a level of professional balance and stability rarely found in the manufacturing industry!
• Exceptional Work-Life Balance: Enjoy your weekends with a stable Monday through Friday schedule, averaging 40-45 hours per week with minimal after-hour calls.
• High-Visibility Leadership: Report directly to the Owner within a non-automotive company where your expertise directly shapes quality systems.
• Straightforward Operations: Manage an easy product line with clear quality guidelines in a facility that values stable, long-term performance.
• Immediate Financial Rewards: Secure your future with a 401(k) plan that offers immediate vesting from day one and potential profit-sharing contributions based on company performance.
• Stable Culture: Join an organization with strong staff tenure, offering a supportive, collaborative environment to grow your career!

Non-automotive, fast paced manufacturer is seeking a Quality Engineer to be responsible for developing and maintaining quality systems to meet the QMS standards and customer requirements. Daily you will report to the Owner and will have the following responsibilities:

• Quality System Compliance: Develop and maintain all quality assurance policies, procedures, and work instructions to ensure the company remains in full compliance with QMS standards.
• Root Cause & Corrective Action: Lead root cause analysis and develop corrective action plans alongside the production team, including completing documentation.
• Technical Documentation: Prepare and manage customer submission packages, including PPAPs, quality plans, flowcharts, and FMEAs.
• Engineering Support: Assist in designing gage and check fixture concepts and perform dimensional layouts and process capability measurements.
• Customer Liaison: Serve as the "voice of the company" during customer meetings to review and resolve quality matters.
• Department Leadership: Manage a small quality assurance team by hiring and training personnel, while directing all quality audit and inspection activities to meet customer requirements.

The company is seeking a candidate who enjoys improving quality systems. Candidates should be professional, enjoy customer communication, have excellent problem solving skills, good written and verbal communication and support a positive working culture.

The company offers bonus potential, profit sharing, 401K, medical benefits, short-term and long-term disability, paid holidays, vacation, and life insurance.

REQUIREMENTS for the Quality Engineer:
1. Minimum of an Associate's degree; a Bachelor's degree is highly preferred

2. At least 2-5 years of similar manufacturing quality engineering experience

3. Root cause analysis and corrective actions
4. Working knowledge of QMS systems, such as ISO, IATF, etc.
5. Working knowledge of PPAPs
6. Ability to read blueprints and understand GD&T

7. Working knowledge of SPC

8. Strong math skills
9. Microsoft Office

Skills preferred but NOT required:
1. CQE certification

2. Supervision of others

3. Injection molding

Reasons to work for this organization:

• Privately held company with the President on site daily

• Non-automotive manufacturer

• Enjoy your weekends, working Monday-Friday and averaging 40-45 hours per week

• Easy product line with minimal quality guidelines

• Stable team and excellent tenure

• They have added new molding machines, a $3.5M investment

• Not a complex product line

Candidates are preferred to be local to the Akron, Ohio area. There is not a relocation available.

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