Quality Engineer

Promote quality achievement and performance improvement throughout the facility. Develop, implement, communicate and maintain the quality plan. Develop and implement quality metrics designed to provide performance clarity for Continuous Improvement activity. Act as the primary contact for operations quality issues from the Monette facility, implement containment actions, identify root cause, and implement corrective actions. Lead problem solving methodology (e.g. 8D, A3, etc.) with cross functional teams to identify, address and implement corrective actions using appropriate lean / six sigma tools. Act as the Salesforce case leader of customer issues for Monette and manage/support case closure for Non-US Operations Support Operations continuous improvement initiatives through utilization of Lean / Six Sigma tools and support environment of continuous improvement for top operation issues. Lead efforts to reduce process and product variation through the use of statistical process control and Cpk studies to identify excessive variation and then to identify/implement improvement action Work directly with Maintenance, Process Techs, Operators, and other Monette personnel to identify and implement Manufacturing & Quality Engineering improvements Develop and implement local procedures as necessary to drive process standardization and align with ISO9001:2015 compliance Lead APQP / FAI / PPAP activity for new product realization and change management initiatives for DC manufactured product. Lead initiative to develop PFMEA and Control Plans for current processes Promote a quality culture through periodic quality tool training sessions with shop floor business partners and process compliance Supervise hourly direct reports in the quality department Minimum 5 years of experience in injection molding/plastics industry and strong knowledge of different types of plastic resins