Senior Quality Engineer

Nalco Water is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer at our Bedford Park, IL manufacturing plant.

This position is focused on quality problem resolution at manufacturing plants with a focus on plant capabilities in Chemical processing and packaging. Primary objective is continuous improvement in quality, process control, material efficiency and startup of new product production.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Support site TPM initiative program and improvement process. Helps to develop and implement action plans to solve problems; works with other department and site employees to achieve and maintain ISO 9001 and RC 14000 certification. Member of the PQ Pillar.
• Determine Quality improvement road map, scope projects and initiatives to eliminate losses. Lead and support implementation of continuous improvement initiatives.
• Implement Statistical Process Control (SPC) approach to control critical quality attributes in target processes.
• Support Lab testing method transfer from Research stage to QA Lab adaptation phase with focus on ISO compliance. Trouble shooting testing method to identify biases and develop harmonization plans.
• Recognized Subject Mater Expert (SME) on Key manufacturing process, able to articulate quality improvement plans to technical and non-technical teams.
• Lead customer complaints and nonconformance investigation. Assigns RCA, Corrective actions and preventative actions to cross functional team members.
• Data mining in- process and finished batch to identify early signs of process deviation. Support Engineering, Maintenance and Production to eliminate loses to maintain control limits.
• Maintain current KPI and develop new measurements to reflect areas of opportunities and to track improvements execution plans.
• Supports plant functions during external and internal audits including ISO 9001, NSF, Halal, Kosher and customer audits.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Engineering, Food Science
• Related experience with strong Chemistry component, and five to seven years of relevant experience.
• Immigration sponsorship is not offered with this position

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Quality engineer or equivalent certification.

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