Quality Specialist - QA Engineering

Do you enjoy working cross-functionally to mitigate risks and drive quality excellence throughout the project lifecycle? Join our Team!

Lufkin Gears is committed to delivering high-quality engineered products that meet stringent technical, contractual, and regulatory requirements. Our Quality function plays a critical role in ensuring product compliance and customer satisfaction across all project phases.

• Analyzing customer technical specifications, applicable standards, regulatory constraints and contractual quality requirements.
• Identifying quality risks, constraints and impacts associated with customer requirements.
• Providing quality input to the commercial and technical teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood and integrated into the offer.
• Supporting feasibility reviews by highlighting quality, inspection, testing and documentation impacts.
• Contributing to the definition of inspection philosophies, deviations strategy and specific quality deliverables during the quotation phase.

• Defining, implementing and maintaining the inspection and test plans (ITP) and required certifications in accordance with:
  • Customer contractual requirements
  • Applicable codes, standards and regulations
  • Internal company procedures and quality system requirements

Kick-off meetings

• Quality review meetings
• Factory acceptance tests (FAT) and/or other inspections

• Coordinating and supporting internal stakeholders (engineering, supply chain, production, inspection, testing) to ensure proper execution of quality requirements at all stages of the project.
• Ensuring that all quality activities are planned, executed, monitored and recorded in a timely manner to support the preparation of the final customer quality documentation dossier.
• Monitoring compliance at each key milestone of the project and identify gaps, risks or non-conformities as early as possible.
• Leading the analysis, definition and follow-up of corrective and preventive actions when deviations or non-conformities are detected.
• Verifying the conformity of the product, documentation and records prior to delivery and defining, supervising and validating any actions required to restore compliance.
• Ensuring that quality deliverables are complete, accurate and compliant before product release and shipment

Under the responsibility of the Project Quality and Production Control Manager, the Quality Project Manager is:

• Accountable for ensuring compliance of projects with technical, normative, regulatory and contractual requirements throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Responsible for monitoring and reporting quality risks, deviations and non-conformities, and for proposing and implementing appropriate mitigation actions.
• Authorized to stop or suspend any activity or phase of the project at any moment of the process (engineering, procurement, manufacturing, inspection, testing, documentation or delivery) if:
  • Quality requirements are not met
  • Compliance with applicable standards, regulations or contractual commitments is at risk
  • Product conformity, safety, or customer satisfaction could be compromised

• Empowered to escalate quality issues to management and customers, as per communication policy, when necessary to ensure timely decision-making.
• Autonomously, in decision-making within the defined quality framework to protect product compliance and the company’s quality standards.

• Read and understand a technical plan
• Very good understanding of the operating principles of a gear machine
• Understanding 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)
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