Senior Quality Engineer Operations

Senior Quality Engineer

Location:

Atlanta

Compensation: $91, USD / year

Job Tags:
Operations

About The Role

Job Title:

Quality Engineer

Purple is a digitally-native vertical brand with a mission to help people feel and live better through innovative comfort solutions. To us, comfort means more than great products, it means empowering every employee to feel comfortable being themselves. We believe your career at Purple will be a one-of-a-kind 'Career in Comfort' because our workforce is one-of-a-kind. We are committed to a culture of collaboration where every voice is heard and understood.

As an innovation company at our core, we believe a diverse workforce brings better insights, solutions and products and serves as the backbone to bettering our company. Join with us as we add to our team of exceptional individuals who will help us take over the world — one mattress at a time.

The compensation target range for this role is:

$91,000 - $107,000

This position needs an experienced and skilled Quality Engineer to join its dynamic and growing team. The Quality Engineer will support the organization by improving the customer satisfaction through quality process and product improvement. The primary goal for this position is to reduce customer complaints to targeted goals and to support product development and production. The ideal candidate will possess key knowledge in data collection, analysis and reporting, testing, development of control plans, specification setting, corrective action, and internal auditing.

Must have a 'roll up your sleeves and help out where needed' type attitude.

• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials/product
• Collaborates with other engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place
• Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating products and production equipment
• Conducts quality assurance tests and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications
• Identifies risk, analyzes them, elevates to the correct level of management, suggests corrective actions, verifies closure of open issues
• Analyzes any product nonconformities in order to determine causes, solve issues and verify concerns
• Updates Control Plans and ensures that quality planning documentation is always updated
• Implements statistical controls in processes as applicable
• Determines root cause for products, processes and materials that do not meet standards
• Leads MRB team in nonconforming product disposition
• Provides feedback/recommendations to leadership as appropriate
• Produce, track and trend quality metrics, generates and submits timely reports
• Support the Product Development Process and ensure defendable practices and scientific analyses are employed
• Provide quality representation on projects
• Develop and initiate standard procedures and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation
• Assist or lead the development or correction of quality procedures, work instructions, and forms as assigned
• Training of operators, technicians, and other employees as assigned to assure all employees have awareness of their quality responsibilities

• Certification as Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB) or Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) by reputable source
• Minimum 5 years of experience in quality engineering position in a manufacturing environment
• Bachelor of Science (BS) or equivalent in a technical discipline (engineering, chemistry, etc.)
• Knowledge of problem investigation methodology, including NCs, CARs
• Proficient in MS Office Suite
• Excellent organizational, communication and project management skills
• Experience utilizing quality assurance PC Applications is a plus:
  Minitab, Sigma
  
  XL, etc

• 0-1 years hands on experience working in a manufacturing work environment
• Technical…