Quality Engineer

Job Name: Quality Engineer

General information

Location: , MN Date: 05-Aug-2025 Company: Andersen Corporation Posting City: Bayport, MN Ref #: 8781 Job Category: Engineering, Quality State: MN

Description & Requirements

ANDERSEN CORPORATION SUMMARY:

At Andersen, we pride ourselves on our core values of Humility, Ownership, Meaningful connection, and Expertise - HOME. Headquartered in Bayport, Minnesota, Andersen Corporation is the largest window and door manufacturer in North America. We’re focused on bringing more light into people’s lives by helping them create healthier, happier spaces to build memories and do what they love. This applies to our team, too. 
In 2024, we were recognized as one of Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women and Newsweek’s Most Trustworthy Companies in America. Earning the 2024 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year—Sustained Excellence Award, Andersen is also committed to environmental health and sustainability. No matter your role, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference at Andersen.

OVERVIEW: 

We are looking for a Quality Engineer to join our team at the Bayport, MN facility.  In this role you will develop, implement, and support all aspects of our quality system and processes for the assigned value stream.  Develop standardized processes, drive continuous improvement, improve customer satisfaction, reduce waste, increase efficiency, audit, measure and monitor our production processes ensuring product conformance to specification.

  

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The development of quality systems, programs, training tools, documents, and standard operating procedures for critical to quality production processes ensuring consistent manufacturability of our custom products.
• Responsible for the preparation and execution of quality control plans, including the review of specifications, tolerances, capabilities and preparation of necessary supporting documentation and justification
• Drive corrective action through root cause identification, structured problem solving and holding the gains on improvements.  Perform root cause analysis to find sources of variation and process problems and use DMAIC tools to resolve them
• Responsible to assist in containment activities when reactive issues arise and ensure all customer issues (CAPA’s, etc.) are addressed, filed, and documented in a timely manner
• Use Statistical Process Control to identify out-of-control conditions and define control plans to reduce process variation
• Support in the resolution of customer complaints

• Participates in continuous improvement projects aligned to lean manufacturing principles aimed at built-in quality, in-process defect prevention, detection tools and reinforcement of next operator as customer mentality.

• Ensure all stages of Product Lifecycle