Quality Engineer

Isola, an industry leader in global materials sciences whose mission is to improve life by enabling innovation in electronic products, is hiring a Quality Engineer at our Ridgeway, SC location.

THE ROLE

The Quality Engineer effectively provides engineering support to lead company efforts in implementing new or improved systems to prevent re-occurring customer complaints, reduce non-conformities and breakdowns in the quality system.

GENERAL PURPOSE OF JOB:

Ensuring products and processes meet quality standards and customer requirements.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead efforts to dramatically reduce customer complaints.
• Handle day to day internal and external quality issues.
• Set up systems to improve plant metrics.
• Establish systems to create a continuous improvement infra structure throughout the company.
• Drives change, removes barriers and promotes creativity, bias for action.
• Lead company efforts in implementing new or improved systems to prevent re-occurring customer complaints and breakdowns in the quality system.
• Review, approve, and monitor all plants performance against customer quality standards.
• Provide quality engineering support to the plant.
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisors and management.
• Apply statistical methods/analysis to improve process capability, reduce process variation and achieve breakthrough performance.
• Lead problem-solving efforts to improve and eliminate waste-reduce cost of poor quality.
• Provide technical and engineering support on an ongoing basis to process teams and other areas as needed.
• Monitor, teach and coach production workers who are involved in the Quality System.
• Follow all safety policies and procedures in accordance with policies and local, state, and federal laws.
• Adhere to all quality standards per Isola policy.
• Participate in training, events and projects.

STRATEGIC FOCUS:

• Contribution to the achievement of plant quality related KPI's (Key Performance Indicators).
• Continuous improvement on the ISO Quality System.
• Meet all safety, quality, production and on-time metrics.
• Be a driving force on all plant initiative projects.
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated leadership and communication skills.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• Military Standards.
• ASQC, CQE or CQM Certification recommended.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• B.S. degree in Engineering and 3-5 years experience in Quality Assurance.
• ASQC certified Quality Engineer.
• Certified Lead Auditor or Black Belt is desired.
• Prefer direct experience in Engineering /Manufacturing/Quality management in High volume, PWB or High Performance Material's Operations.
• Candidates will have knowledge of quality management principles and quality engineering.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

ADDITIONAL COMPETENCIES THAT ARE REQUIRED TO PERFORM JOB:

• Ability to work in a fast-pace environment and multi-task.
• Ability to work in fast pace environment.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Ability to work effectively with people at all levels within the organization.
• Quality Systems Experience.
• ISO 9001.