Quality Specialist - QA Engineering

Overview

Lufkin Gears is committed to delivering high‑quality engineered products. The Quality Specialist – QA Engineering ensures that all projects meet technical, normative, and contractual quality requirements, acting as the key interface between internal teams, customers, and suppliers throughout the project lifecycle.

• Commercial phase (Inquiry to Order – ITO):
  • Analyze customer technical specifications, applicable standards, regulatory constraints, and contractual quality requirements.
  • Identify quality risks and constraints associated with customer requirements.
  • Provide quality input to commercial and technical teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood and integrated into the offer.
  • Support feasibility reviews by highlighting quality, inspection, testing, and documentation impacts.
  • Contribute to the definition of inspection philosophies, deviation strategy, and specific quality deliverables during the quotation phase.
• Execution phase (Order to Remittance – OTR):
  • Define, implement, and maintain inspection and test plans (ITP) and required certifications in accordance with customer contractual requirements, applicable codes, standards and regulations, and internal company procedures and quality system requirements.
• Act as the main quality interface with customers, attending kick‑off, quality review meetings, FAT, and other inspections.
• Coordinate and support internal stakeholders (engineering, supply chain, production, inspection, testing) to ensure proper execution of quality requirements at all project stages.
• Ensure all quality activities are planned, executed, monitored, and recorded in a timely manner to support the preparation of the final customer quality documentation dossier.
• Monitor compliance at each key milestone of the project, identifying gaps, risks, or non‑conformities as early as possible.
• Lead the analysis, definition, and follow‑up of corrective and preventive actions when deviations or non‑conformities are detected.
• Verify the conformity of the product, documentation, and records prior to delivery and define, supervise, and validate any actions required to restore compliance.
• Ensure that quality deliverables are complete, accurate, and compliant before product release and shipment.

• Read and understand a technical plan.
• Very good understanding of the operating principles of a gear machine.
• Understanding of the principles of organizing a production workshop.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 and 14001 standards and associated documentary systems.
• Mastery of the main regulations applicable depending on the country of installation, in particular anti‑explosion standards (ATEX / IECEX).
• Knowledge of tools for searching causes and identifying corrective and preventive actions.
• Ability to design and lead improvement initiatives.
• Proficiency in technical English.

• Manage multiple activities in parallel according to priorities and emergencies.
• Analyze a situation and data to adapt an action plan and achieve objectives.
• Follow objectives, check progress, give feedback.
• Present progress and results at all levels of the organization internally or to clients.
• Manage a project and lead improvement initiatives.
• Define action plans and implement them.
• Lead meetings and write reports.

• Autonomous decision‑making to achieve objectives.
• Inform management of problems and risks.
• Be pragmatic, factual, and analytical.
• Show active listening, reformulation, explanation, and persuasion.
• Establish a climate that encourages communication and exchange of information.
• Demonstrate diplomacy, dynamism, coherence, and logic.
• Be rigorous, organized, and demanding of yourself.
• Collaborate and work as a team.
• Be available to colleagues.

• Ensure the application of quality, health, safety, and environment procedures.
• Promote an environmental approach within the company.
• Participate in reducing the company's consumption (energy, water, consumables, etc.).
• Reduce waste and encourage sorting for recovery.
• Follow recommendations for machine/device use to reduce risk of malfunction and releases.
• Respect rules for handling hazardous products or…