Quality Engineer, Senior

Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer 

 

 

Job Summary: 

 

Reporting to the Quality Manager, plans and conducts activities concerned with the quality assurance of industrial processes, materials, and products.  

 

  Responsibility: 

 

• Acts as “Voice of the Customer” in all situations to guide Linamar to comply with expectations.  

• Duty and authority to stop production when nonconforming situations are identified.  

• Plans and conducts the analysis, inspection, design, test, and/or integration to assure the quality of assigned product or component.  

• Performs quality engineering reviews of design documentation for compliance with stated requirements, including vendor quality manuals and company quality records.  

• Applies statistical process control (SPC) methods for analyzing data to evaluate the current process and process changes.  

• Reviews all purchased products or components and provides input to the decision of whether to accept the product and future purchases from the vendor.  

• Documents data obtained during all quality assurance activities, consistent with company policies and procedures.  

• Follows customer and internal standards to solve problems identified during quality assurance activities, maintains tracking of and presents status of plant open incidents.  

• Ensures customer and internal quality processes and methods are followed in all aspects of manufacturing.  

• Communicates significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and provides recommended process improvements to management.  

• Prepares reports to communicate involvement and results of quality assurance activities.  

• Prepares and presents technical, program and quality incident information to team members, management and customers when needed.  

• May direct, train, coach, mentor and guide technical and administrative workers engaged in quality assurance activities, including quality techs, sort companies and engineering staff.  

• Share specialized knowledge with others, represent company on specific projects, and mentor new and current employees.  

• Maintains a working knowledge of government and industry quality standards.  

• Develop, modify, apply, and maintain quality standards to meet customer specific requirements.  

• Design and implement gage plans and inspection instructions for product quality assurance.  

• Work with gage suppliers to develop and design new gage methods, variable or attribute for product measurements.  

• Order and approve gaging systems with a clear understanding of in-process or in-line auto gaging.  

• Manage all facets of customer PPAPs. Define, apply anal