Quality Engineer & EHS Specialist

Job Summary

Responsible for leading quality assurance and Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) programs.

Ensures compliance with quality standards, OSHA/EPA regulations, and internal policies.

Drives continuous improvement in product quality, workplace safety, and environmental performance.

• Lead challenge reviews of travelers with the plant, ETS, and CRS to peer-check the quality plans before work begins.
• Create/develop quality documentation including the following:
• Create/edit data sheets by integrating information from drawings and manuals
• Generate maintenance instructions
• Perform NCR’s/RCA’s – Lead the effort to author, drive the teams, and document the results to ensure quality issues are addressed with actions to prevent recurrence.
• Lead customer feedback surveys - Oversee the effort to coordinate the requests sent to the customers, maximize the percentage of responses, and compile the results
• Lead ISO Audit – Schedule, coordinate, and work with auditors and shop personnel to ensure the CRS remains compliant.
• Ensure compliance of measuring and testing equipment – Oversee process to maintain calibration of the measuring and test equipment
• Lead the weekly traveler inspection process – Assign responsibilities, perform inspections, compile the results, and report out on the auditing of travelers
• Review the travelers after completion to ensure that all quality steps have been followed.
• Monitor quality performance, gathering relevant data, collate and analyze for statistical reporting as required.
• Develop and maintain detailed quality reporting structures including preparing written reports, slide presentations, and discussing results with management for organizational transparency and continuous improvement of KPIs and quality improvement metrics.
• Identify gaps in the quality process. Develop new and improve existing processes by implementing standardized best-practice procedures.
• Formulate goals, objectives, policies, and systems enhancing QA/QC to improve performance for related activities at CRS.
• Identify projects that would help the culture grow with a quality mindset
• Develop relationships with suppliers subcontracting to CRS. Visit supplier shops, perform quality reviews and drive RCA for quality related events for work sub-contracted out and performed at these repair shops.
• Identify and deliver relevant quality-related training needs to enhance performance.
• Monitor overall quality performance, identify improvement opportunities for lesson’s learned communications, training opportunities, and year over year continuous improvement.
• Ensure quality action plans and procedures are properly understood, carried out and evaluated.
• Provide leadership to staff to ensure the proper completion of quality checks, signoffs, check lists and processes.
• Participate in external quality reviews at plants for planned outages.
• Be the point to contact (POC) and interface with the customer (plants) on all quality issues.
• Improve process quality using Lean Six Sigma Tools
• Oversee the following metrics:
  Defect rate reduction and first-pass yield improvement., Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), TRIR and incident reduction metrics, Audit findings closure rate.

• Oversee EHS program and ensure OSHA/EPA compliance.
• Lead safety audits, inspections, and incident investigations.
• Track safety metrics (TRIR, near misses, recordables).
• Oversee hazardous materials and environmental compliance.

• Lead behavior-based safety (BBS) programs.
• Conduct safety meetings, training, and toolbox talks.
• Drive employee engagement in safety reporting and prevention.

• Normal office and maintenance shop environment.
• Some overtime required as special projects arise.
• Travel to plants, contractors/vendors, and corporate offices will be required.

• 5 plus years’ of experience in Quality Assurance for customer product manufacturer.
• 5 plus years’ of experience in Quality Management and Quality Audit systems.
• A strong record of success in utilizing Quality Systems in manufacturing, engineering, supplier, or distributor environments.
• Requires valid state driver’s license.