Quality Engineer

Open the Door to Your Future with Clopay Corporation & CornellCookson

At Clopay Corporation, we are more than just North America’s largest residential and commercial garage door manufacturer—we are a powerhouse of innovation, safety, and design. Through our premier brands, we lead the industry in providing groundbreaking high-performance closure solutions for both the places people call home and the spaces where the world does business.

Headquartered in Mason, Ohio, and operating state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Troy, Ohio, Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, and Goodyear, Arizona, we are a proud American-owned company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation. Our reach extends across 55 distribution centers and thousands of retail locations in the U.S. and Canada ensuring that we deliver the right door for every opening – from homes to businesses and beyond.

By joining our team, you become part of a legacy that blends the residential elegance of Clopay, known as "America’s Favorite Garage Doors," with the industrial strength and 180-year heritage of our rolling brands, Cornell and Cookson. Together, we secure everything from family garages to the world's most iconic stadiums and skyscrapers.

We currently have an opening for a Quality Engineer in our Troy, Ohio, location.

Responsibilities Include

• Lead continual improvement by promoting quality achievement and performance improvement throughout the organization.
• Develop, implement, communicate, and maintain a quality plan to bring the Company’s Quality Management System and Policies into compliance with the ISO 9001:2015 international standard.
• Communicates with engineering, production, and supply chain teams to implement process improvements and monitor effectiveness.
• Work with the supply chain to establish, implement, and audit quality requirements for external suppliers.
• Manage and maintain the Company’s quality inspection and product release programs for raw materials, components, and finished goods through receiving, in-process, and finished goods.
• Perform inspection and testing of stamped, machined, split steel, injection molded components, and final assemblies for conformance to design and configuration requirements.
• Assess the product specifications of the company and its suppliers, and compare with customer requirements.
• Define quality procedures in conjunction with operating staff.
• Liaison with our customers’ quality team and internal and external auditors.
• Ensure the execution of corrective action and compliance with customers’ specifications.
• Drive the company’s Quality Management System (QMS) and perform the responsibilities associated with the Management Representative.
• Support production areas to meet quality specifications by managing quality improvement projects.
• Identify potential quality risks and take a proactive approach to eliminate the risk.
• Lead/advise assembly quality staff in analytical approach for root cause analysis and problem solving.
• Ability to read and understand drawings/measure parts to confirm parts meet specifications.
• Research the latest mass production manufacturing technologies.
• Provide engineering support to operations, ensuring consistent application of quality techniques.
• Determine when process stability and capability studies should be performed on existing processes. Review and analyze results. Recommend changes to processes based upon findings and perform follow-up to verify effectiveness.
• Coordinate pre-launch production trial run process monitoring.
• Participate in the development of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Maintain Control Plans and FMEAs throughout the life of the part.
• Apply appropriate use of statistical techniques.
• Determine and apply appropriate Measurement System Analysis tools.
• Recommend and implement enhancements to the quality system that result in improved corporate quality performance, increased customer satisfaction, and/or simplification of processes to reduce costs.
• Oversee the controlled document system, to include a final review of all changes to procedures, work instructions, forms, master lists, and other associated documents to ensure quality certification requirements are met.
• Manage quality metrics and present findings and recommendations to the management review team.
• Job Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required.
• ASQ Certification (Quality Auditor, Quality Engineer, Quality Improvement Associate).
• Lean Six Sigma Belt.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office and Statistical Software.
• Knowledge of tools, concepts, and methodologies of QA.