Quality Engineer

Job Description

Title: Quality Engineer

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Position Summary:

The Quality Engineer is an integral team member of the RRPS Mankato value stream, pivotal to ensuring product quality through expert data analysis and production quality control. This role is responsible for resolving systemic issues, assuring new product quality, and supporting continuous improvement to uphold strict compliance standards.

Key Accountabilities: 

• Quality Data Analysis: Support the analysis of production quality & product warranty data for the Mankato value stream, including separating normal vs. special cause variation in trends to proactively identify & resolve systemic issues / concerns / quality detractors.
• Production Quality Control: Direct support of the Mankato value stream with accurate and timely determination of assignable causes and validated corrective actions for escalated production quality (line call) and customer quality (site call) issues, leveraging established processes for internal (quality notifications; q-note) & external supply chain (SCAR) issue resolution and quality control evolution. Occasionally providing direct support to the Mankato production team for initial quality issue definition and authoring q-notes.
• Systemic Quality Issue Resolution: Support the Mankato value stream with warranty cluster identification, root cause analysis, and resolution (FiRe), with successful broadcasting of quality issue escape resolution tactics (correction in field (CiF) in conjunction with Mankato Customer Quality & Service Engineering. Work with global team members to implement issue reoccurrence prevention tactics.
• Quality Assurance: Support the global development of new products for the Mankato value stream, ensuring quality assurance functional deliverables are completed by the established quality gates.
• Personal & Product Compliance: Maintain awareness of specifications, regulations, and industry standards that affect the quality of the Mankato value stream’s products. Represent the Mankato Operations Quality department during internal & external audits, facilitating as necessary. Promote a compliance culture and live the letter & spirit of the Rolls-Royce Code of Conduct.
• Continuous Improvement: Support the evolution of the Mankato Operations Quality team’s capabilities through the procurement and maintenance of calibrated gauges and measurement equipment and high-quality mechanical tools. Lead machine capability studies and measurement systems analysis for the Mankato value stream. Train and mentor peers and teammates to pragmatically develop competencies.
• Lead or support special projects as required.
• Promote a compliance culture in area of responsibility and live the letter and the spirit of the Rolls Royce Code of Conduct.
• Perform special projects as required

Basic Requirements: 

• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S without sponsorship. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Electrical, or Quality Engineering plus 3 years of professional experience in a QA or QC role, or 7 years of professional experience in a QA or QC role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Evaluation and application of common statistical data analysis techniques and tools for decision making, including statistical process control (SPC) and the associated Shewhart rules, process capability analysis, statistical sample size & power planning, design of experiments (DoE), probability analysis, structured root cause analysis (5-Whys, fault tree analysis, fishbone analysis) and A3 / 8D based structured-problem solving, and internal (NCP) and external (SCAR) non-conforming material management.
• Analysis of common key performance indicators for production quality, cost, and on-time delivery, advanced product quality planning (APQP), production part approval process (PPAP), quality control plans with acceptable quality levels (AQL) and first article inspection with appropriate metrology (including MSA & GR&R), and risk mitigation tactics such as failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA).
• Strong written & verbal communication & interpersonal teamwork skills, with the ability to interface effectively at all levels of the organization and with external customers with open candor, integrity, and professionalism. Demonstrated intrinsic drive for high quality, dependability