Quality Engineer I

Spectraforce Technologies
United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Nov 13, 2024
Job Title: Quality Engineer I Location: Atlanta, GA, 30313 Duration: 12 Months (Potential to extend/convert) Shift: 8 AM TO 4:30 PM Job Description: Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer. Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products. Responsibilities: * Identifies and controls Manufacturing process defects (scrap, nonconforming material, customer complaints) by participating in efforts/teams focused on identifying the primary root causes and implementing corrective and preventative actions. * May be responsible for querying & bounding data to support implementation of complex & documenting release criteria. * Develops product quality plans, documents and systems by creating product specifications, quality specifications and quality plans in conjunction with other product development team members. * May be responsible for creating risk analyses and FMEAs. * Develops Process Monitoring Systems by identifying critical process steps applying methods to reduce process variation in order to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects. * Leads process improvement efforts by identifying methods to capture quality metric data and by performing appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design and new product development. * Assists in creation of Quality Tools & Training Materials by understanding the limitations of existing quality tools and training materials, and by helping to identify more effective tools & materials. * Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks. * May lead a project team of moderate scope. * Provides guidance to less experienced staff. * Acts as a mentor to lower level individual contributors. * Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management. * Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule. * Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action. * Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources. Education/ Experience: Bachelor's Degree in related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience Masters Degree is preferred Minimum 2 years Related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area. Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures. General understanding of business unit/group function. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations. Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.