Senior Quality Engineer; Neillsville, WI

Senior Quality Engineer

We are looking for a dynamic Senior Quality Engineer to join our Neillsville, WI team and drive excellence across our manufacturing and installation operations. On-Site:
Monday
- Friday.

In this high-impact role, you won't just be monitoring processes—you'll be leading them. From facilitating continuous improvement activities and spearheading Six Sigma projects to mentoring junior engineers and managing supplier quality, you will be the technical backbone of our quality standards. If you are a problem-solver who thrives on accountability, collaboration, and delivering customer-centric solutions, we want to give you the freedom and flexibility to make a lasting impact with today's most innovative thinkers.

• Responsible for applicable systems related to plant customer issues such as corrective action requests, supplier corrective action requests, nonconforming material reports, etc. Leads containment activities.
• Facilitates continuous improvement quality activities to reduce the potential for defects, and ensures continual improvement in process and product design.
• Ensures products and process development meet quality standards. Identifies problems, prioritizes actions, leads or participates in Six Sigma projects.
• Participates in change management activities by verifying products and processes, developing key measures, analyzing data for decision support, and presenting results to plant leadership.
• Leads audits of processes and quality systems.
• Works with purchasing to improve the quality of purchased parts.
• Serves as a quality technical resource to other functional areas. May coach and mentor less experienced quality engineers.

Job Competencies

• Production Part Approval Process
  - Coordinates the level of submission of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities and information related to the introduction of new or changed products and processes.
• Statistical Foundations
  - Applies statistical tools and technique to influence decision making; leverages understanding of data collection methods, key statistics, graphical and analytical methods to describe process performance, gain insights and drive improvement action.
• Ensures accountability
  - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives engagement
  - Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Supplier Quality Management
  - Leads all aspects of supplier quality management; helps develop strategy and collaborative supplier partnerships; identifies supplier innovation capabilities; contributes to supplier audit and certification process; remains current on supplier performance metrics and acts to quickly resolve issues to improve supplier quality performance.
• Problem Solving
  - Solves problems using a systematic analysis process by leveraging industry standard methodologies to create problem traceability and protect the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements robust, data-based technical solutions; identifies the systemic root causes and recommended actions to prevent problem reoccurrence.
• Advanced Product Quality Planning
  - Leads the technical quality planning and ensures customer satisfaction through structured and measurable processes as defined by industry standard.
• Measurement Science
  - Analyzes measurement processes throughout the relevant traceability chain to identify and quantify sources of measurement uncertainty relevant to the appropriate applied measurement science, "Metrology" e.g., Chemical, Dimensional, Electrical, Mechanical, Optical and Radiation and Physical.
• Quality System Management
  - Guides in the practice and application of quality management system standards required by international certification bodies, industry specific regulatory authorities, and customer's contractually specified requirements.
• Project Management
  - Establishes and maintains the balance of scope, schedule, and resources for temporary efforts (a "project").
• Quality Process Management
  - Applies and manages methods (e.g., SPC, Capability studies, Layered Process Audit, inspection, test) to ensure quality of Atmus products, processes, and…