Quality Engineer

Overview

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Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies and systems. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at  or @parkerhannifin.

• Improvement Efforts:
  Evaluates quality processes and develops improvement efforts through data analysis, management of documentation, and policies, procedures, and records.
• Evaluates effectiveness of quality programs (such as production, inspection, testing, design review, and procedures) with quality requirements.
• Develops and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision, reliability and accuracy of products and processes.
• Validates process, procedure, and product changes by examining impacts on quality and communicating required actions to internal and external stakeholders.
• Assesses quality performance (or cost-of-quality) using statistical and analytical methods.
• Provides input on quality to product development teams.
• Prepares reports by collecting, interpreting, analyzing and summarizing data.
• Leads failure analysis and corrective action investigations with cross functional teams.
• Refines and enhances products and processes by applying continuous improvement.
• Participation in certification audits as needed.

• Supplier Quality:
  Assesses the quality of supplier’s capabilities and metrics.
• Develops and initiates programs to improve supplier performance.
• Communicates with suppliers regarding quality issues, process improvements, and specification requirements.
• Executes improvement initiatives for managing quality standards of component parts, which may include making vendor visits as needed.
• Collaborating with suppliers to ensure component part specifications are met.
• Collaborates with production and engineering team members to align component quality with product quality standards and customer needs.
• Participation in supplier audits as needed.

• Customer Quality:
  Assesses the cost of, and responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications by performing statistical analyses.
• Identifies quality performance, trends and corrective action by coordinating with customers and suppliers.
• Communicates with customers regarding quality issues, process improvements, and product capabilities and features.
• Communicates quality solutions with customers by validating product improvement actions and performance characteristics.
• Resolve quality issues and assist the broader team to fully address customer feedback in a timely manner.

• Bachelor’s Degree (BS) in Engineering required, preferably in Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical or Chemical engineering fields.
• Ability to effectively assess and implement continuous improvement techniques to quality and manufacturing functions.
• Six Sigma and Lean tools experience is required;
  Green or Black Belt Six Sigma certification is a plus.
• Familiarity with industry standards requirements, such as ISO 13485, ISO 9001, IATF 16949 for quality and ISO 14971 for risk management is highly desired.
• American Society for Quality certification desired.
• Effective communicator with team members and management.
• Strong problem-solving skills with data-driven decision making.
• Project management experience is desired.

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies and systems. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at  or @parkerhannifin.

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