Quality Engineer – Glendale, AZ

(on-site contract)

For more than 150 years, our client has combined its unparalleled expertise in glass science, ceramics science, and optical physics, along with its deep manufacturing and engineering capabilities, to develop category-defining products that transform industries and enhance people's lives. With five major business sectors: display technologies, environmental technologies, life sciences, optical communications, and specialty materials, they are also among the Forbes 500 largest companies in the US.

Summary: Encompasses the application of scientific and technological principles concerned with the integrity of manufactured products and processes from an engineering standpoint, esp. design specifications, testing procedures, and minimum quality standards.

Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
Designs and analyzes inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for, products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
Audits quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
Contacts are primarily internal and may be outside of the immediate work group or organization. Rather infrequent external contacts.

Areas of specialization include:

Design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
May be certified in lean and six-sigma quality engineering methodologies.
May also be responsible for the unit's Performance Excellence (Six-Sigma) project portfolio, assuring the effective use of different improvement methodologies (DMAIC, Lean, DESGN, etc) toward the achievement of division or plant strategic goals.

Requirements:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering
Minimum Experience: 3+ Years in MFG quality or process Engineering.
Experience in DMAIC, 8D and 5-Why Methodologies.
Requires thorough understanding and application of standard engineering or scientific theories, concepts, principles, and techniques.
Requires the ability to develop and resolve solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
Works under general direction with defined objectives.
Approach is consistent with established procedures.
Work is reviewed for soundness of technical judgment and overall adequacy.

Preferred Qualifications

Keab/Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification
PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC,. MSA experience4
Proficiency in Minitab, JMP, or Power BI
ASQ Certified Quality Engineer- CQE or CQA
SAP, ETQ or similar ERP system experience
Project management experience

This role is restricted to U.S. persons (i.e., U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) due to access to export-controlled technology. Our client will require proof of status prior to employment.

Full-time contract employees are eligible for the following benefits:

Dental
Vision
Health
401K
Holiday Pay

We thank all candidates for their application, however only those that qualify will be contacted.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $40.00 - $45.00 per hour

Benefits:

401(k)
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Health savings account
Vision insurance

Education:

Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

Defects Resolution : 2 years (Required)
MFG Quality or Process Engineering: 2 years (Required)
DMAIC, 8D and 5-Why Methodologies: 2 years (Required)
Root cause analysis: 2 years (Required)
SAP / ERP: 2 years (Preferred)
Manufacturing Process Improvements: 2 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

Glendale, AZ 85301 (Required)

Work Location: In person

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