Process & Product Quality Specialist - Finishing

Commonwealth Rolled Products is a leading manufacturer of Aluminum rolled products for the Automotive, Commercial, and Industrial markets. The Company operates its production facility in Lewisport, KY with the support of an Automotive Innovation Center for R&D, Sales and Field Service in Madison Heights (DET), and Inside Sales in the Cleveland, OH area.

Our production facility is seeking to add a talented Process and Product Quality (PPQ) Specialist to its team in Lewisport, KY. The purpose of this role is to hold, improve and transfer knowledge of processes and quality, be responsible for process improvement & assurance, support product implementation, and define and start up new investments and processes. The key responsibility is to develop and implement all process and quality settings to ensure a robust process that delivers right first- time quality. This role will be assigned to our finishing operation, which contains batch annealing, slitting, leveling, along with tolling operations that include slitting, leveling, blanking and coating.

Responsibilities Include:

• Actively participate in maintaining a zero incident safety culture
• Live and champion the Commonwealth Rolled Products core values; Safety, Integrity, Customer Focus, Ownership, Excellence, and Teamwork

• Lead the pursuit of process excellence within their area, ensuring continuous improvement without delaying actionable progress.

• Own process management for assigned operations, including definition, control, and continuous improvement of all critical process parameters.

• Lead cross-functional recovery projects for process, quality, and operational performance gaps

• Define all process settings which must be used to ensure stable and robust quality in efficient processes.

• Identify and lead capability improvement projects.

• Lead major quality or process improvement projects taking into account safety, costs and environmental constraints, as well as the effects on subsequent installations.

• Support quality and efficiency improvement projects from other departments (production, technical services, six sigma).

• Initiate and verify process changes and validate all process changes within primary assigned installation following MOC and change management.

• Assist production, when necessary, to perform root cause analysis or trouble shooting in a structured way to solve internal and external non-conformities.

• Implement corrective actions in relevant processes resulting from claims and non-conformities.

• Partner with production and maintenance in operational area.

• Manage process settings through several hundreds of parameters in department to ensure stable and capable processes.

• Responsible for the setup of a system of process control of all relevant sub processes to ensure stable performance in time.

• Provide second line technical support to several customers, when installation is involved.

• Taking initiative in continuous learning and development within functional area

• Responsible to deliver the input for R&D developments on the industrialization status

• Apply SPC methodology to critical inputs and outputs.

• Provide feedback and coaching to Technicians on operating processes and quality tool utilization.

• Maintain and ensure compliance with inter-departmental quality contracts and specifications.

Key Deliverables:

• Products and materials
  o General metallurgical knowledge about the products produced in the plant
  o Detailed knowledge on processing for assigned installations.
  o Understanding of quality assurance and systems
  o New product implementation
  o Support Product Technology or to the R&D implementation department to ensure fast and robust introduction of new specifications or products.
  o Checks and refreshes the installation bible(s) and capabilities.
• Investments
  o Start up and commissioning support of new installations and processes
  o Detects the need for new investments or processes to improve quality or robustness.
  o Defines process requirements, prepares and follows up the startup of, and verifies results from new investments or processes.
• Assigned area systems knowledge:
  o Experience with IBA, Wonderware or other historian systems
  o Knowledge of Parsytec, Cognex or equivalent vision system

Required Qualifications:

• 4-year engineering degree plus 3 years of relevant experience or a combination of education and experience in lieu of a degree.

• Both practical and theoretical understanding and experience with web handling, slitting, leveling, electrostatic oiling and annealing processes

• Knowledge of all processes of assigned installation - Mechanical & hydraulics, Chemical, Physical, Electrical & controls, Measurement systems, IT platforms (level 1– 3), and Thermo-mechanical processing capabilities.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access)

Preferred Qualifications

• Aluminum or steel rolled product experience 
• SQL/VBA experience 
• Six sigma green belt or black belt
• Knowledge and demonstrated use of Quality tools; i.e. 8D, PPS, DMAIC, PDCA, A3, 5S, Value Stream and Cause Mapping, Visual Management, etc.

EEO Statement

Commonwealth Rolled Products is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age (forty and over), national origin, disability (as defined by applicable law), veteran’s status, genetic information, marital status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Our HR team will reach out to the applicants who met the qualifications and most closely aligned with requirements of the positions.