Quality Engineer

Job Details

Job Location:

Oakdale MN
- Oakdale, MN 55128

Position Type:
Full Time Education Level: 4 Year Degree Salary Range: $65,000.00 - $80,000.00 Salary/year

Travel Percentage :
None Job Category: QA
- Quality Control

Key Tronic is a team-based, supportive environment where everyone is able to feel encouraged and supported. We provide opportunities for growth through seminars, certifications, on-the-job training, and career advancement. Our team and employees are proud of our product diversity and team environment. We are an international company where you will do something different every day in our fast-paced work environment, but we are always finding ways to create something new and be innovative.

We encourage you to apply for this position if you enjoy being challenged, working in a dynamic work setting, and being a part of a team that creates products that drive our world, while providing an innovative workplace with deep camaraderie, compelling product diversity, and resources to build your career.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability
• PTO
• Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 401K

We also have a company provided wellness program because we care about the wellbeing of our employees inside and outside of the workplace. We organize volunteer opportunities, company activities, and all-employee meetings to show we value our employees and the community around us!

Key Tronic Oakdale, MN facility is seeking a Quality Engineer candidate. Your primary responsibility is to help support Production and Engineering through the elimination of rework. Secondarily, you will be required to lead the internal audit process in support of our various quality certifications. Fulfillment of your primary function is achieved through the analysis of data, review of internal/external customer feedback to improve our processes, discovery of root cause, Corrective and Preventative Action plans, training of personnel and successful NPI (New Product Introduction) launches.

You will be a team player working closely with program managers, production personnel as well as internal/external customers.

• Help with the integration of new products into production via our NPI process by anticipating technical difficulties, review of all customer requirements, identification of risks and detailed review of our electronic instructions. You will be out on the production floor with each new production NPI to obtain feedback and improve the processes, refine documentation and provide training as necessary.
• Use analytical problem solving skills to discover root cause of quality issues then work with production personnel, engineering, suppliers and/or customers to prevent future repetitive occurrence of problems.
• Work closely with Production and Engineering in the evaluation/selection of new equipment and/or processes to support items 1 and 2 above. Poke Yoke techniques are highly desired to ensure consistently high quality of product that will be delivered on time to all of our customers.
• Work on 5S and lean initiatives to ensure that all processes are continually improved.
• Review quality data provided by Aegis (Manufacturing Database) to look for trends, problem areas then resolve these issues to reduce/eliminate rework.
• Help develop and maintain effective process controls.
• Develop and implement process controls that include statistical techniques for identified key characteristics.
• Help with continuous improvement efforts for manufacturing efficiencies and reduced labor costs.
• Help improve work instructions/procedures for…